我们花了大量开支,派船队到南极去收集海燕和企鹅的粪,而手边不可估量的致富因素却流入海洋。
Fleets of vessels are despatched , at great expense , to collect the dung of petrels and penguins at the South Pole , and the incalculable element of opulence which we have on hand , we send to the sea .