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1 1, 12 | this reduction is only .000436 of an atmosphere for each 2 2, 1 | plain, with a surface of 1,200,000,000 of acres, and whose waters 3 2, 20 | at a depth of more than 1,400 fathoms, that I saw the 4 2, 7 | greatest depth of which was 1,450 fathoms. The Nautilus, by 5 1, 12 | the boat, weighing then 1,507 tons, will be completely 6 2, 20 | at a depth of more than 1,918 fathoms, was on the precise 7 2, 5 | the platform. It weighed 10,000 lb. ~The next day, 11th 8 2, 16 | minutes this water reached 100°. It was directed towards 9 1, 19 | 2nd January we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, 10 1, 5 | crossed the Equator on the 110th meridian. This passed, the 11 1, 1 | line, found herself in 15° 12' long. and 45° 37' lat. 12 1, 17 | parallel, and they gave 12,000 yards, 14,000 yards, and 13 1, 22 | the island of that name in 122° long. ~From this point the 14 2, 11 | We had then made about 13,000 leagues since our departure 15 1, 22 | to starboard, placed at 130° long. and on the 10th parallel, 16 1, 22 | Cape Wessel, situation in 135° long. and 10° S. lat., which 17 1, 5 | then in 31° 15' N. lat. and 136° 42' E. long. The coast of 18 1, 17 | where Cook died, February 14, 1779. We had then gone 19 1, 17 | they gave 12,000 yards, 14,000 yards, and 15,000 yards. 20 1, 17 | the equator December 1, in 142° long.; and on the 4th of 21 1, 13 | America, over an extent of 145 degrees of longitude. It 22 2, 4 | discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one of the nineteen 23 2, 4 | situated between 10° and 14° 30' N. lat., and 69° 50' 24 1, 17 | yards, 14,000 yards, and 15,000 yards. To sum up all, it 25 2, 11 | not touch the bottom with 15,140 fathoms. Captain Nemo intended 26 1, 18 | situated 8° 18' S. lat., and 156° 30' E. long., had seen some 27 1, 14 | and in 32° 40' N. lat. and 157° 50' W. long., I found a 28 2, 11 | had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and 29 2, 4 | 72" E. long. ~We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) 30 1, 18 | discovered by Quiros in 1606, and that Bougainville explored 31 2, 14 | in full activity, on the 167th meridian, latitude 77° 32'. 32 1, 18 | 2° S. lat., and 164° and 168° long. We passed tolerably 33 2, 9 | Nautilus was marked at 16° 17' long., and 33° 22' lat., 34 2, 18 | Nautilus. We had travelled 17,000 leagues; and, as Ned Land 35 1, 17 | the tropic of Cancer at 172° long. On 27th instant it 36 2, 19 | feet in height, and 150 to 175 yards long, and their speed 37 1, 9 | oxygen contained in more than 176 pints of air, and this air, 38 2, 20 | guns, and was launched in 1762. In 1778, the 13th of August, 39 1, 18 | Bougainville explored in 1768, and to which Cook gave 40 1, 19 | vessel was lost, 10th June, 1770. The boat in which Cook 41 1, 18 | gave its present name in 1773. This group is composed 42 2, 20 | was launched in 1762. In 1778, the 13th of August, commanded 43 2, 20 | squadron of Admiral Estaing. In 1781, on the 5th of September, 44 1, 18 | were again heard of. In 1791, the French Government, 45 2, 20 | Grasse, in Chesapeake Bay. In 1794, the French Republic changed 46 2, 15 | showed a depth of more than 180 fathoms. "What does that 47 1, 14 | small island, recognised in 1801 by Captain Crespo, and marked 48 1, 18 | wrecks. On the 15th of May, 1824, his vessel, the St. Patrick, 49 2, 4 | after taking possession in 1839. I caught a glimpse of the 50 2, 20 | one was laid in the years 1857 and 1858; but, after transmitting 51 2, 20 | laid in the years 1857 and 1858; but, after transmitting 52 2, 19 | night. The barometer, as in 1860 at Reunion during a cyclone, 53 1, 6 | straining itself, it made 19 3/10 miles. ~What a pursuit! 54 2, 16 | temperature of the water rose to 1° below zero. The injections 55 2, 17 | Mount Sarmiento, that rises 2,070 yards above the level of 56 2, 20 | depth, which was more than 2,212 fathoms, and there it lay 57 2, 23 | ten months, I have crossed 20,000 leagues in that submarine 58 2, 19 | seventy-five miles, and its depth 210 yards. The Nautilus still 59 2, 5 | TUNNEL~That same evening, in 21° 30' N. lat., the Nautilus 60 1, 12 | stem to stern, is exactly 232 feet, and its maximum breadth 61 1, 1 | shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing 62 1, 17 | indicated a temperature of 4.25 (cent.): a temperature that 63 2, 18 | hair. One could see the 250 air holes on the inner side 64 2, 16 | open polar seas. We were at 26°. For five days we had lived 65 1, 1 | herself during the night in 27° 30' lat. and 72° 15' long., 66 2, 4 | course of the day of the 29th of January, the island of 67 1, 12 | depth. If we want to sink 3,000 feet, I should keep account 68 2, 12 | 200 gallons, it contains 300,000 gallons of air, which, divided 69 2, 10 | obstacles. At a height of about 31 feet the nature of the ground 70 1, 5 | The frigate was then in 31° 15' N. lat. and 136° 42' 71 1, 14 | the planisphere, and in 32° 40' N. lat. and 157° 50' 72 2, 1 | 12° 5' S. lat., and 94° 33' long., we observed Keeling 73 2, 9 | marked at 16° 17' long., and 33° 22' lat., at 150 leagues 74 1, 1 | 42° 15' N. lat. and 60° 35' W. long. In these simultaneous 75 2, 16 | on the ice at a depth of 350 yards, the depth at which 76 2, 20 | preferred sinking with its 356 sailors to surrendering; 77 1, 19 | wished to visit the reef, 360 leagues long, against which 78 1, 18 | group covers an area of 370 square leagues, and it is 79 2, 11 | us 45° 37' S. lat., and 37° 53' W. long. It was the 80 2, 13 | at 51° 30' long. and 67° 39' of S. lat. We had advanced 81 1, 12 | a half thick and weighs 394 tons. The second envelope, 82 2, 20 | in length, and weighing 4,500 tons, which was embarked 83 1, 17 | 1779. We had then gone 4,860 leagues from our starting-point. 84 1, 14 | planisphere, and in 32° 40' N. lat. and 157° 50' W. 85 1, 5 | 31° 15' N. lat. and 136° 42' E. long. The coast of Japan 86 2, 20 | at a depth of more than 420 fathoms, resting on the 87 1, 1 | monster to each other in 42° 15' N. lat. and 60° 35' 88 1, 18 | crowned by Mount Kapogo, 476 feet high. The Nautilus, 89 1, 19 | had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our 90 1, 4 | would bear a pressure of 5,600 lb. Ah! my brave Ned, do 91 1, 12 | completely immersed it displaces 50,000 feet of water, or weighs 92 2, 13 | which gave our situation at 51° 30' long. and 67° 39' of 93 2, 11 | 45° 37' S. lat., and 37° 53' W. long. It was the same 94 2, 13 | floating ice in latitude 55°, merely pale bits of debris 95 2, 13 | temperature was always at 5° below zero; every outward 96 1, 4 | 32,000 feet, that is, about 6 miles; which is equivalent 97 2, 16 | Nautilus. There were about 6,000 cubic yards to detach, so 98 1, 12 | Nautilus. Its area measures 6,032 feet; and its contents about 99 2, 4 | certain, that in the year 615 before Jesus Christ, Necos 100 1, 12 | and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons. Do you follow all 101 2, 20 | enterprise. It was within 638 miles of the coast of Ireland; 102 2, 6 | to rise again in the year 69, when they again subsided. 103 2, 4 | and 14° 30' N. lat., and 69° 50' 72" E. long. ~We had 104 2, 16 | after the thermometer marked 6° below zero outside. One 105 1, 12 | whose density is from .7 to .8 that of water. The 106 2, 4 | had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our 107 2, 4 | 30' N. lat., and 69° 50' 72" E. long. ~We had made 16,220 108 1, 1 | night in 27° 30' lat. and 72° 15' long., struck on her 109 2, 4 | definitely destroyed in 761 or 762 by Caliph Al-Mansor, 110 2, 4 | definitely destroyed in 761 or 762 by Caliph Al-Mansor, who 111 2, 14 | 167th meridian, latitude 77° 32'. The vegetation of this 112 2, 16 | thermometer then stood at 7° outside. Captain Nemo took 113 1, 17 | not mistaken, a depth of 8,000 yards has been found in 114 2, 19 | displaced a mass weighing 8,400 lb. They are they which, 115 2, 9 | summit of a mountain about 800 feet high. But what I saw 116 1, 18 | landing on an island situated 8° 18' S. lat., and 156° 30' 117 2, 17 | the enormous depression of 9,000 yards. In this place, the 118 2, 13 | meridian. From 67° 30' to 90°, twenty-two degrees and 119 2, 1 | in 12° 5' S. lat., and 94° 33' long., we observed Keeling 120 1, 11 | thousand grammes are found 96 1/2 per cent. of water, 121 1, 12 | partitions and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons. Do you follow all 122 1, 4 | times that pressure would be 97,500,000 lb.--that is to say, that 123 2, 2 | the surface of the sea, in 9° 4' N. lat., there was land 124 1, 6 | for its brilliancy did not abate--but suddenly, and as if 125 1, 22 | Nautilus was considerably abated, and with irregular course 126 1, 8 | IN MOBILI~This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, 127 2, 6 | It was indeed the ancient abode of Proteus, the old shepherd 128 1, 20 | that I recognised as the "abrou" of the Malays, and yams 129 1, 12 | below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity. There, sir! 130 2, 16 | every part of the vessel? To absorb it, it was necessary to 131 1, 9 | chlorate of potash, and in absorbing carbonic acid by caustic 132 1, 17 | the watch-light, and gazed abstractedly on the ocean. In the meantime, 133 1, 6 | seized the crew; the sailors abused the monster, who, as before, 134 2, 9 | ancient port had formerly abutted on the borders of the ocean, 135 2, 1 | prepared in one of its deepest abysses. There, not one of the ocean' 136 2, 5 | of Suez and the Gulf of Acabah. ~The Nautilus penetrated 137 2, 21 | speed of the Nautilus was accelerated. It was preparing to rush. 138 2, 1 | particularly. But the Nautilus, accelerating her speed, easily left the 139 1, 8 | to admit of very varied accentuation. ~The other replied by a 140 2, 1 | a certain way, made very acceptable water-game. Amongst large-winged 141 2, 11 | silence appear to him a tacit acceptance of our situation? And would 142 1, 10 | them, free in the strictest acceptation of the word, quite beyond 143 2, 2 | would perhaps reflect before accepting the invitation. As for myself, 144 1, 12 | the ballast, the several accessories and apparatus appendages, 145 2, 14 | though, having climbed a high acclivity, I could see no volcano 146 1, 10 | must see how you will be accommodated on board the Nautilus." ~ 147 2, 22 | He had made me, if not an accomplice, at least a witness of his 148 2, 21 | perish with it, than be made accomplices in a retaliation the justice 149 2, 16 | it took twelve hours to accomplish this much it would take 150 2, 11 | Nemo evidently intended accomplishing his submarine programme, 151 1, 10 | and answered of his own accord the questions which I was 152 1, 9 | Good!" said he. "That accounts for those roarings we heard, 153 1, 22 | required degree immediately and accurately. ~It was thus that, either 154 1, 1 | justly or unjustly, was accused of their disappearance, 155 2, 3 | him. ~I was beginning to accustom myself to the sight of this 156 2, 16 | frozen ice-beds. Our arms ached, the skin was torn off our 157 1, 10 | preparation of some of them. I acknowledged that they were good, but 158 2, 12 | reason for making their acquaintance," said Conseil. ~"Look! 159 1, 4 | Little by little, Ned Land acquired a taste for chatting, and 160 1, 10 | expended millions in the acquirement of these various specimens, 161 1, 12 | of volume that sea-water acquires according to the depth." ~" 162 1, 10 | all the responsibility: I acquit you entirely, for I make 163 2, 9 | here the high base of an Acropolis, with the floating outline 164 1, 10 | passive obedience. In thus acting, I take all the responsibility: 165 2, 11 | charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles 166 1, 21 | tree, long, narrow, well adapted for speed, were balanced 167 1, 21 | led to the discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and 168 1, 8 | in the dining-room of the Adelphi Hotel at Liverpool, or at 169 1, 10 | thank my host. ~"Your room adjoins mine," said he, opening 170 1, 18 | directed his course towards the Admiralty Islands, mentioned in a 171 2, 19 | to you on a matter that admits of no delay." ~"What is 172 1, 18 | unimportant trifles. The natives, adopting a system of denials and 173 1, 23 | elegant sea-bindweed, all adorned with clouds and reflections. 174 1, 21 | complete his provisions. ~This adroit Canadian employed his time 175 2, 3 | one-third of its body. It was an adult, as was known by its six 176 2, 6 | flight may be attempted as advantageously as here." ~"M. Aronnax," 177 2, 5 | and I know not how the adventure would have ended, if the 178 2, 12 | attack than their inoffensive adversaries, but also because they could 179 1, 3 | despite his name, never giving advice--even when asked for it. ~ 180 1, 22 | CHAPTER XXII~"AEGRI SOMNIA"~The following day 181 1, 20 | undulating flight, graceful aerial curves, and the shading 182 1, 21 | they would merit the name aerolites." ~A second stone, carefully 183 2, 4 | Mediterranean for their commercial affairs: but they did not think 184 2, 2 | I also know that few who affront those creatures ever return 185 1, 12 | Then, when the Nautilus is afloat under these circumstances, 186 1, 12 | constructing it on the aforesaid dimensions. ~"The Nautilus 187 2, 21 | of day the firing began afresh. The moment could not be 188 1, 1 | quarter-deck hurried to the after-part of the vessel. They examined 189 1, 22 | reality, it was an infinite agglomeration of coloured infusoria, of 190 2, 12 | Canadian, "they approach: they aggravate me; they know that I cannot 191 2, 14 | the steep slopes with an agility I never saw equalled and 192 2, 5 | zoophytes, seaweed, and fucus, agitating their enormous claws, which 193 1, 10 | told by each one, entirely agreeing in the main points, convinced 194 2, 16 | we must not reckon on the aid of nature, but on our own 195 1, 14 | Captain. ~"Then it is an air-gun." ~"Doubtless! How would 196 2, 8 | surprise, this door was ajar. I drew back involuntarily. 197 2, 4 | in 761 or 762 by Caliph Al-Mansor, who wished to prevent the 198 1, 16 | ourselves under an arbour of alariae, the long thin blades of 199 1, 1 | slight that no one had been alarmed, had it not been for the 200 1, 6 | the Abraham Lincoln with alarming rapidity, stopped suddenly 201 1, 16 | hunter's grasp. It was an albatross of the finest kind. ~Our 202 1, 18 | Bowen, commander of the Albemarle, that the debris of shipwrecked 203 2, 22 | I was constantly on the alert. My imagination magnified 204 2, 6 | which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 205 1, 21 | found Captain Nemo deep in algebraical calculations of _x_ and 206 1, 21 | and a shower of arrows alighted on her. ~I went down to 207 2, 15 | The sea seemed everywhere alike. Numerous blackish patches 208 2, 4 | undertook the works of an alimentary canal to the waters of the 209 2, 8 | had concluded a treaty of alliance at the Hague, with the intention 210 1, 16 | the flora are too closely allied in this submarine world. ~ 211 1, 7 | reptiles, such as tortoises or alligators. ~Well, no! the blackish 212 1, 10 | and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!" ~ 213 2, 8 | shareholders are led on by the allurement of an enormous bounty, for 214 2, 20 | Newfoundland. This bank consists of alluvia, or large heaps of organic 215 2, 22 | which ever struck my ear): ~"Almighty God! enough! enough!" ~Was 216 1, 15 | my head rattled like an almond in its shell. ~The light, 217 2, 10 | timidly at the foot of an aloe with long, sickly-looking 218 2, 7 | bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed 219 1, 18 | Hebrides. There a Lascar came alongside in a canoe, sold him the 220 1, 17 | A vessel!" I said, half aloud. ~"Yes," replied the Canadian, " 221 2, 18 | of Nidros was building an altar on an immense rock. Mass 222 1, 22 | But there was not time for altercation. Four of the crew waited 223 1, 19 | which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their 224 1, 15 | clothes?" ~"There is no alternative, Master Ned." ~"As you please, 225 1, 9 | consequently more probable alternative-- would he be satisfied to 226 1, 10 | in you an artist." ~"An amateur, nothing more, sir. Formerly 227 1, 21 | chance their spiral is left, amateurs are ready to pay their weight 228 1, 18 | the unlucky place. This ambiguous conduct led them to believe 229 2, 1 | be seen on the coasts of Amboyna, and in these parts of the 230 2, 13 | others resembled enormous amethysts with the light shining through 231 1, 19 | rely upon the Captain's amiability." ~To my great surprise, 232 1, 20 | vainly exhausted one half our ammunition. ~About eleven o'clock in 233 1, 1 | the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred! ~ 234 1, 7 | class this monster among amphibious reptiles, such as tortoises 235 1, 21 | and broke the bracelet of amulets which encircled the arm 236 2, 12 | which is entirely black. Anatomically, it is distinguished from 237 2, 20 | there it lay without any anchorage; and then we reached the 238 2, 2 | countries, particularly in the Andaman Islands, the negroes never 239 2, 11 | trunks of trees torn from the Andes or the Rocky Mountains, 240 1, 15 | and red helmet-shells, angel-wings, and many others produced 241 1, 22 | the measure of the horary angles, and waited, according to 242 2, 21 | Paralysed, stiffened with anguish, my hair standing on end, 243 2, 14 | perfect sea-butterflies, animating the waters on the skirts 244 2, 8 | had imposed the Duke of Anjou, his grandson, on the Spaniards. 245 2, 3 | crawled various kinds of annelides. ~At this moment there opened 246 2, 22 | all nervous influence was annihilated, and we were covered with 247 2, 12 | of Baffin's Bay, and are annihilating a class of useful animals. 248 1, 18 | to Commander La Perouse, annotated in the margin in Louis XVI' 249 1, 11 | of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of tempests; 250 2, 13 | it is always visible, and announces the presence of an ice pack 251 1, 10 | have hesitated much. Most annoying circumstances have brought 252 2, 2 | not see the fishermen. The annual exportation has not yet 253 1, 1 | thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the 254 1, 16 | fawn, and brown. ~"Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said 255 1, 5 | steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging 256 1, 10 | sole judges to whom he was answerable. ~These reflections crossed 257 2, 18 | pricking, like the sting of an ant, which was produced by means 258 2, 21 | the water. It was a human ant-heap overtaken by the sea. Paralysed, 259 1, 7 | covering, like that of the antediluvian animals; and I should be 260 2, 9 | curdled when I saw enormous antennae blocking my road, or some 261 1, 11 | Really, I knew already the anterior part of this submarine boat, 262 1, 20 | understand the charms of anthropophagy." ~"Ned! Ned! what are you 263 1, 3 | was taking the road to the antipodes. ~"Conseil," I called in 264 1, 10 | bronze, after the finest antique models, stood upon pedestals 265 2, 4 | commercial purposes to the age of Antonius, when it was abandoned and 266 1, 21 | masked battery care for the ants that crawl over its front. ~ 267 2, 8 | the least painful of my anxieties; but the thought of seeing 268 1, 14 | to bed, not without some anxiety. ~The next morning, the 269 2, 16 | the Captain, after having anxiously watched the result of the 270 | anyhow 271 | anywhere 272 1, 2 | pursue. Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, 273 1, 5 | attention and stimulate the apathy of the animal in case it 274 1, 21 | to any attack. ~"Are they apes?" cried Ned Land. ~"Very 275 1, 1 | continued its route without apparent damage. Had it struck on 276 2, 5 | thrown with great force; had apparently only struck the water. ~" 277 2, 19 | tongue, to utter a last appeal! Amongst the crew of the 278 2, 4 | idea, we must see in this appellation of the Red Sea a translation 279 1, 12 | accessories and apparatus appendages, the partitions and bulkheads, 280 1, 11 | Exactly." ~"Another application of electricity. This dial 281 1, 22 | But my eye was no sooner applied to the glass than it was 282 2, 6 | Canadian. "But your observation applies equally to all attempts 283 1, 10 | alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey 284 2, 16 | counteract the most terrible apprehensions. "It is one danger more; 285 1, 6 | disappeared, or, to use a more appropriate term, it "died out" like 286 1, 21 | Urville was nearly lost. Apropos of this: ~"This D'Urville 287 1, 13 | the glass of an immense aquarium. ~"You wished to see, friend 288 2, 9 | some remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here the high base of an 289 2, 4 | the name of which, in the Arab tongue, means The Gate of 290 1, 10 | ceiling, decorated with light arabesques, shed a soft clear light 291 1, 8 | they are Spaniards, Turks, Arabians, or Indians. As to their 292 1, 13 | Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but one vast 293 1, 16 | stretched ourselves under an arbour of alariae, the long thin 294 2, 1 | between which the luminous arc was developed--an important 295 1, 16 | penetrated under its vast arcades, I was struck by the singular 296 2, 10 | There was a complete vaulted arch overhanging us, and our 297 2, 4 | replied; "and for the sake of archaeologists let us hope that these excavations 298 2, 21 | terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred, was still looking. 299 2, 8 | placing it on that of an archduke to whom they prematurely 300 2, 10 | you tell me why the Great Architect has suspended operations, 301 2, 1 | spectacle. ~It was a shoal of argonauts travelling along on the 302 1, 14 | would be ten." ~"I will argue no longer," I replied, rising 303 1, 7 | without its helm. Conseil argued on this supposition, and 304 1, 4 | might have been called the Argus, for a hundred reasons. 305 2, 8 | question of rivalry suddenly arisen. ~"You are following the 306 2, 22 | that sickly giddiness which arises from long-continued whirling 307 1, 22 | transformed her into an ark of safety which no profane 308 1, 2 | Farragut, who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as 309 2, 20 | Ireland the news of the armistice concluded between Prussia 310 1, 15 | have thought it a suit of armour, both supple and resisting. 311 1, 17 | altogether changed, and aroused an extraordinary emotion 312 1, 12 | owing to this cellular arrangement it resists like a block, 313 1, 3 | cetacean. ~The interior arrangements of the frigate corresponded 314 2, 2 | of Manaar, where we shall arrive in the night." ~The Captain 315 2, 14 | which were not visible. On arriving at the summit Captain Nemo 316 1, 2 | as soon as possible. The arsenals were opened to Commander 317 1, 17 | organisation. It has a pulse, arteries, spasms; and I agree with 318 1, 20 | which was like that of an artichoke. ~It must be confessed this 319 1, 10 | bedstead, a table, some articles for the toilet; the whole 320 1, 7 | no sounds. Conseil could articulate some words, and I heard 321 1, 8 | to tell our adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and 322 1, 10 | are, I recognise in you an artist." ~"An amateur, nothing 323 1, 10 | nature and art, with the artistic confusion which distinguishes 324 1, 10 | In my eyes, your modern artists are already old; they have 325 1, 17 | like the Nautilus, would ascend every morning to breathe 326 2, 17 | April 1st, when the Nautilus ascended to the surface some minutes 327 1, 1 | of the men went down to ascertain the extent of the injury. 328 1, 6 | height of 120 feet; thus I ascertained its way of breathing. I 329 2, 21 | Sheaves of sparks and red ashes flew from the funnels, shining 330 1, 3 | and longing for repose. I aspired to nothing more than again 331 1, 21 | frequently repeat the word "Assai," and by their gestures 332 2, 13 | March, after many useless assaults, the Nautilus was positively 333 2, 14 | uttering harsh cries, a large assembly, sober in gesture, but extravagant 334 1, 10 | States of America." ~I bowed assent. It was not a question that 335 1, 1 | timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length 336 2, 3 | wanted to go to the Captain's assistance, but, nailed to the spot 337 1, 2 | In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum 338 2, 19 | the crew of the Nautilus, associated with the body and soul of 339 2, 19 | France in this mysterious association, evidently composed of individuals 340 2, 22 | enormously, his features to assume superhuman proportions. 341 1, 8 | looked around with cold assurance; calmness--for his skin, 342 1, 22 | lieutenant replied by formal assurances. At least I concluded so 343 2, 12 | repugnance to the drink; but he assured me that it was excellent, 344 2, 4 | that astonish you?" ~"What astonishes me is to think that we shall 345 1, 10 | palaces, and I am absolutely astounded when I consider that it 346 1, 8 | saw in these mysterious asylums a world of unknown animals, 347 1, 21 | were true Papuans, with athletic figures, men of good race, 348 2, 9 | those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the 349 2, 2 | the lion in the plains of Atlas, or the tiger in the Indian 350 1, 15 | vibration which penetrated every atom of liquid. Shall I be believed 351 2, 8 | unfasten the bolts which attach it to the shell of the Nautilus. 352 2, 21 | far off when, the Nautilus attacking its adversary, my companions 353 1, 12 | very little labour spent in attaining the lower regions of the 354 1, 2 | unicorn of the sea, often attains a length of sixty feet. 355 1, 3 | pursuing the unicorn than of attempting the passage of the North 356 1, 12 | firm as iron; no rigging to attend to; no sails for the wind 357 2, 14 | they take the most graceful attitudes. Thus the ancients, observing 358 2, 13 | The preparations for this audacious attempt now began. The powerful 359 1, 4 | occupation. Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed 360 2, 20 | 1762. In 1778, the 13th of August, commanded by La Poype-Ver 361 2, 1 | vague glimmerings of an aurora borealis. ~ 362 1, 18 | tolerably near to the Island of Aurou, that at noon looked like 363 1, 5 | under the most favourable auspices. It was then the bad season 364 2, 11 | Cape Horn, to return to the Australian seas of the Pacific. Ned 365 2, 19 | illustrious of our poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. ~ 366 2, 12 | latitudes gave us some lovely autumnal days. It was the Canadian-- 367 1, 8 | last attempt being of no avail, the two strangers exchanged 368 2, 9 | and the low growling of an avalanche. To right and left ran long, 369 1, 2 | the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. ~SIR,-- 370 2, 14 | granite shore. There, I can aver that earth and ice were 371 1, 22 | that the sea preserved an average temperature of four degrees 372 1, 14 | Captain Nemo's manifest aversion to islands and continents, 373 1, 11 | were devouring it with avidity. Then a door opened into 374 2, 19 | I so seldom meet him. He avoids me." ~"That is all the more 375 1, 10 | and Conseil: ~"A repast awaits you in your cabin," said 376 1, 6 | cautiously so as not to awake its adversary. It is no 377 1, 14 | the 17th of November, on awakening, I felt that the Nautilus 378 1, 17 | appeared. He did not seem to be aware of my presence, and began 379 2, 14 | in the water, heavy and awkward as they are on the ground; 380 2, 14 | their bodies, and helped awkwardly enough by their imperfect 381 2, 18 | The crew fought with their axes. The Canadian, Conseil, 382 1, 11 | transmit the movement to the axle of the screw. This one, 383 2, 11 | about the height of the Azores; then, touching the African 384 1, 13 | silvery head; the brilliant azurors, whose name alone defies 385 1, 5 | your fossils, sir. And the Babiroussa would have been installed 386 1, 5 | parts. Large quantities of bacon were trailed in the wake 387 2, 12 | depopulated the whole of Baffin's Bay, and are annihilating 388 2, 19 | Bahamas at the mouth of the Bahama Canal. We were then following 389 1, 1 | coast of Australia. Captain Baker thought at first that he 390 1, 22 | appeared the smaller fish, the balista, the leaping mackerel, wolf-thorn-tails, 391 1, 12 | sixty-two tons. The engine, the ballast, the several accessories 392 2, 21 | were very simple. The iron balustrade around the platform was 393 1, 21 | balanced by means of a long bamboo pole, which floated on the 394 1, 21 | he was draped in a mat of banana-leaves, notched round the edges, 395 1, 8 | after us immediately with a bang. ~We were alone. Where, 396 1, 22 | from which all shade seemed banished. No; this was not the calm 397 2, 9 | bankers!" ~"Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the ocean, 398 2, 14 | Captain Nemo unfurled a black banner, bearing an "N" in gold 399 2, 7 | boy, it forms a perfect bar to the Straits of Lybia, 400 2, 12 | The Captain was right. The barbarous and inconsiderate greed 401 1, 23 | coasts of France, Italy and Barbary. Its tints justified the 402 1, 4 | thrown by the hand to the barbed arrows of the blunderbuss, 403 2, 4 | sand that the camels can barely bathe their legs there. 404 2, 22 | what noise around our frail bark! What roarings repeated 405 2, 11 | weighted with shells and barnacles that they could not again 406 2, 15 | to him. ~"Our course is barred southward?" I asked. ~"Yes, 407 2, 7 | one day raise these two barriers above the waves?" ~"It is 408 2, 9 | leaning on their regularly-cut bases, seemed to defy all laws 409 2, 4 | that the camels can barely bathe their legs there. You can 410 1, 11 | Near this kitchen was a bathroom comfortably furnished, with 411 2, 13 | frightful crackings. It was the battering ram of the ancients hurled 412 2, 16 | beneath like a formidable battering-ram. It broke it by backing 413 1, 21 | the soldiers of a masked battery care for the ants that crawl 414 1, 18 | bearing this inscription--"Bazin m'a fait," the mark of the 415 1, 21 | crescent and collars of glass beads, red and white; nearly all 416 2, 18 | Nautilus, and I heard their beaks gnashing against the iron 417 1, 20 | tops of the trees, little beans that I recognised as the " 418 2, 13 | the waves to find a more bearable temperature. Two months 419 1, 22 | January, the Nautilus seemed becalmed only a few yards beneath 420 1, 15 | following Captain Nemo, who beckoned me on by signs. Soon the 421 2, 5 | quarter inhabited by the Bedouins. Soon Djeddah was shut out 422 1, 10 | monkish aspect. A small iron bedstead, a table, some articles 423 1, 21 | numerous than on the day before-- five or six hundred perhaps-- 424 1, 5 | board the Abraham Lincoln, begged for his help in chasing 425 1, 23 | extreme limit on which coral begins to form. But there was no 426 2, 2 | company; he did it kindly, and behaved like a real gentleman." ~" 427 1, 20 | things most charming to behold, but few eatable. ~However, 428 2, 5 | Land, clinging to the bows, belaboured the gigantic animal with 429 1, 14 | air is kept by means of a bellows, and therefore cannot escape 430 2, 11 | Norway, whilst the second bends to the south about the height 431 1, 9 | which conveyed to us the beneficial whiff, and I was not long 432 1, 3 | Europe (for my particular benefit), and I will not bring back 433 2, 19 | obscure, in the frail hope of bequeathing one day, to future time, 434 1, 22 | full of hallucinations, bereft me of my being. Then the 435 2, 11 | seaweed, fucus, and tropical berries, so thick and so compact 436 2, 11 | signifies kelp. This kelp, or berry-plant, is the principal formation 437 1, 4 | would have cursed such a berth under any other circumstances. 438 1, 11 | Next to the kitchen was the berth-room of the vessel, sixteen feet 439 2, 15 | centre staircase, by the berths of the ship's crew, there 440 1, 8 | sea. Dreadful nightmares beset me; I saw in these mysterious 441 1, 18 | communication-- rather uncertain, besides--directed his course towards 442 2, 13 | that night; hope and fear besieged me by turns: I rose several 443 1, 14 | numerous "mare's tails," which betokened wind for that day. But what 444 2, 22 | avoided speaking, for fear of betraying themselves. At six I dined, 445 1, 8 | without our situation being bettered, when the dense darkness 446 1, 19 | The Nautilus, floating betwixt wind and water, went at 447 1, 18 | we left to the east the bewitching group of the Societies and 448 1, 14 | which I do not work with bichromate of potash, but with sodium. 449 2, 6 | the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first opportunity 450 2, 17 | African coast. This valley bifurcates to the parallel of the Antilles, 451 1, 5 | there, "that he was too big for that!" ~The 6th of July, 452 1, 10 | small, can figure in your bill of fare." ~"This, which 453 1, 13 | the most delicate hawks bills, of a surmullet served with 454 2, 9 | trunks, breaking the sea bind-weed which hung from one tree 455 1, 20 | each other by garlands of bindweed, real natural hammocks, 456 1, 23 | emotions, I sat down near the binnacle. Captain Nemo joined me. 457 1, 20 | catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. 458 1, 16 | enough to defend me from the bite of this animal, I could 459 2, 12 | riddled with holes from the bites, and quite dead. From its 460 2, 15 | wind freshened it was most biting. Flakes of ice increased 461 2, 13 | latitude 55°, merely pale bits of debris from twenty to 462 1, 21 | surprise. "Has master been bitten?" ~"No, my boy; but I would 463 2, 10 | grown cold, encrusted with bituminous rays; and in some places 464 2, 3 | with the existence of this bivalve, and seemed to have a particular 465 2, 2 | mother-of-pearl amongst certain bivalves." ~"Branch of molluscs," 466 2, 8 | cases from the midst of the blackened wrecks. From these cases 467 2, 14 | supported on little swimming bladders, which the breaking of the 468 2, 3 | than lead? Here is a strong blade; put it in your belt, and 469 1, 5 | looked till I was nearly blind, whilst Conseil kept repeating 470 2, 15 | myriads of diamonds was blinding. It required some time to 471 1, 13 | walking--we are sailing--blindly." ~Ned Land had scarcely 472 2, 13 | given it the name of "ice blink." However thick the clouds 473 2, 9 | I saw enormous antennae blocking my road, or some frightful 474 2, 9 | clothed with a world of blossoming zoophytes, and over which, 475 1, 16 | which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does 476 2, 8 | strong southerly gale was blowing. The sea was swollen and 477 1, 23 | delicate tentacles, some just blown, the others budding, while 478 1, 6 | second lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw 479 1, 4 | the barbed arrows of the blunderbuss, and the explosive balls 480 1, 1 | sharp and penetrating than blunt. The shock had been so slight 481 1, 7 | entered its skin and was blunted." ~"Why, Ned, why?" ~"Because, 482 1, 21 | little respect for aught but blustering things. The thunderbolt 483 1, 16 | phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by. ~My blood froze in my 484 2, 12 | like dogs worrying a wild boar in a copse. But the Nautilus, 485 1, 12 | so. I now ask you if the boarding of the Nautilus and of the 486 2, 18 | There, about ten men with boarding-hatchets were ready for the attack. 487 2, 7 | continents between Cape Boco and Cape Furina were joined." ~" 488 2, 22 | myself on my bed to quiet my bodily agitation. My nerves were 489 2, 2 | Wales, Ireland, Saxony, Bohemia, and France." ~"Good! For 490 2, 6 | curling amid the waves, which boiled like water in a copper. 491 2, 13 | yet been reached by the boldest navigators--was it not a 492 1, 4 | attention, but above all the boldness of his look, which gave 493 1, 8 | iron wall, made of plates bolted together. Then turning back 494 2, 4 | steamers of the line of Suez to Bombay, Calcutta to Melbourne, 495 2, 7 | narrow space between Cape Bon and the Straits of Messina 496 2, 4 | into Egypt, your General Bonaparte discovered traces of the 497 2, 22 | longing to break these earthly bonds. I listened with every sense, 498 2, 21 | air. At that moment a dull boom was heard. I looked at the 499 2, 8 | Laden with their precious booty, the men returned to the 500 1, 19 | saw, with its remarkable border of screw-pines. He stood 501 2, 13 | then higher than at its borders--not a very reassuring fact.