At the southern zenith glittered the circumpolar constellations, and above all the Southern Cross, which some days before the engineer had greeted on the summit of Mount Franklin.
Au zénith austral, les constellations circumpolaires resplendissaient, et, parmi toutes, cette Croix du Sud que l'ingénieur, quelques jours auparavant, saluait à la cime du mont Franklin.