To these two queries in their minds, our stout-hearted, young friends answered doggedly and determinedly, "Yes!"  Fortune might frown upon them, it is true; but if so they would face her smilingly, with confidence, with that pertinacity for which Americans are famous, and try to make her look pleasant, too!  They felt that they must win; that they would win.  And yet they left Port Darwin handicapped by being fully three hours behind their rivals.