March 31
at seven o’clock in the evening
We would soon settle this important point . The Nautilus traveled swiftly . Soon we had cleared the Antarctic Circle plus the promontory of Cape Horn . We were abreast of the tip of South America by March 31 at seven o'clock in the evening . By then all our past sufferings were forgotten . The memory of that imprisonment under the ice faded from our minds . We had thoughts only of the future .