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502 2, 1 | glimmerings of an aurora borealis. ~ 503 2, 10 | own eyes. There at a hole bored in one of the dragon-trees 504 2, 20 | a protection against all boring molluscs. It lay quietly 505 2, 19 | it will go whither it is borne by the waves." ~This man' 506 2, 18 | my friends, Captain Paul Bos of Havre, has often affirmed 507 2, 19 | ply between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mexico, 508 1, 2 | classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological riches, 509 1, 21 | had a good hunt, have you botanised successfully?" ~"Yes Captain; 510 1, 18 | He first cast anchor at Botany Bay, visited the Friendly 511 1, 10 | beneath the waters. That day I bought my last volumes, my last 512 2, 14 | north, distinctly traced its boundary line upon the sky. At our 513 1, 20 | kangaroos that fled and bounded along on their elastic paws. 514 1, 15 | hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), of staircases, 515 2, 8 | allurement of an enormous bounty, for they value these rich 516 2, 4 | Calcutta to Melbourne, and from Bourbon to the Mauritius, furrowing 517 1, 10 | conducted me towards the bow, and there I found, not 518 2, 19 | twenty-five fathoms in the bowels of the deep. But there, 519 1, 18 | after, they learned from Bowen, commander of the Albemarle, 520 1, 8 | look black. Happily, my bowie knife I have still, and 521 1, 6 | masters, sailors, cabin boys; even the engineers left 522 1, 21 | took effect and broke the bracelet of amulets which encircled 523 2, 2 | The round are made into bracelets, the oval into pendants, 524 1, 16 | singular position of their branches--a position I had not yet 525 2, 8 | inferior forces, fought bravely. But, seeing that the treasure 526 1, 10 | I lighted it at a little brazier, which was supported upon 527 2, 17 | the inhabited coasts of Brazil, for we went at a giddy 528 1, 20 | prepared the fruit of the bread-tree. Then the wood-pigeons were 529 1, 9 | good fellow? Say rather breakfast-time, for we certainly have begun 530 1, 22 | Well, it is that master breakfasts. It is prudent, for we do 531 1, 4 | Abraham Lincoln had not yet breasted the suspected waters of 532 1, 16 | he shook himself in his breastplate of air, in the most comical 533 1, 15 | apparatuses and the old cork breastplates, jackets, and other contrivances 534 2, 16 | Suddenly I came to. Some breaths of air penetrated my lungs. 535 1, 4 | breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, and very narrow in the 536 1, 4 | lay the perfection of a breech-loading gun, very thick at the breech, 537 2, 7 | Nemo. Those waves and those breezes brought back too many remembrances, 538 2, 14 | something like crushed brick, scoriae, streams of lava, 539 2, 10 | a piercing sword; other bright-coloured creatures, known in the 540 2, 21 | the waves the windows were brightened by the red streaks of the 541 2, 14 | nine we landed; the sky was brightening, the clouds were flying 542 2, 1 | and which projected their brilliance in a horizontal plane. The 543 2, 13 | conquer those obstacles which bristled round the South Pole, rendering 544 2, 13 | The Nautilus entered the brittle mass like a wedge, and split 545 1, 8 | was short, very muscular, broad-shouldered, with robust limbs, strong 546 2, 4 | Nautilus floated in the broadest part of the Red Sea, which 547 2, 17 | furnished with long diagonal broadsides which carried it to all 548 2, 6 | bath, I was choking, I was broiled. ~"We can remain no longer 549 1, 11 | magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate of 550 1, 20 | magnificent hog; from the brood of those the natives call " 551 2, 21 | with all those passions brooding imperceptibly within the 552 2, 18 | is, at least, one of its brothers." ~I looked at Conseil. 553 2, 8 | compressed lips and frowning brow showed with him the violent 554 2, 14 | petrels, some whitish, with brown-bordered wings, others blue, peculiar 555 1, 8 | contraction of his lofty brows; and courage--because his 556 1, 18 | September under the command of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux. ~Two months 557 1, 16 | passed without seeing us, brushing us with their brownish fins, 558 1, 23 | isolated bush, nor modest brushwood, at the bottom of lofty 559 1, 16 | around the muzzle. Monstrous brutes! which would crush a whole 560 2, 4 | point of departure, near Bubastes, to the Red Sea was so slight 561 2, 10 | dispread in layers full of bubbles, the latter forming regular 562 1, 7 | agree with him. ~Just then a bubbling began at the back of this 563 2, 9 | mountain caused by internal bubblings, deep noise, distinctly 564 1, 23 | some just blown, the others budding, while a small fish, swimming 565 2, 12 | there; lights a fire " ~"And build houses," said Conseil. ~" 566 2, 18 | the Bishop of Nidros was building an altar on an immense rock. 567 2, 5 | distinguished clearly enough its buildings, the vessels anchored at 568 1, 12 | appendages, the partitions and bulkheads, weigh 961.62 tons. Do you 569 2, 14 | long, with a white coat, bulldog heads, armed with teeth 570 1, 6 | our maximum of speed, it bullied the frigate, going round 571 2, 14 | said Conseil; "a concert of bulls!" ~"No; a concert of morses." ~" 572 1, 6 | leaning on the forecastle bulwark, I saw below me Ned Land 573 1, 18 | He opened it, and I saw a bundle of papers, yellow but still 574 2, 8 | Nautilus, disposed of their burden, and went back to this inexhaustible 575 2, 8 | those millions with which he burdened the Nautilus. It was for 576 1, 14 | England by Philip Coles and Burley, in France by Furcy, and 577 1, 1 | Higginson, of the Calcutta and Burnach Steam Navigation Company, 578 1, 22 | midst of this fire that burns not the swift and elegant 579 1, 23 | was in the drawing-room, busied in arranging my notes, when 580 1, 18 | five minutes before. I was busily tracing the route of the 581 1, 6 | lieutenant loaded the blunder busses, which could throw harpoons 582 2, 10 | long legs, several fine fat bustards. I leave anyone to imagine 583 2, 12 | hunter, and I call this a butchery." ~"It is a massacre of 584 2, 12 | for in the shape of salt butter or cheese it would form 585 1, 21 | And, pressing an electric button, he transmitted an order 586 2, 16 | chance. Notwithstanding the buzzing in my head, I soon heard 587 1, 7 | without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters 588 2, 14 | The thermometer marked 3° C. above zero. It was comparatively 589 1, 20 | collection by a raid upon the cabbage-palms, that we gathered from the 590 1, 4 | sight the monster, were he cabin-boy, common seaman, or officer. ~ 591 2, 5 | Nautilus. ~Arrived some cables-length from the cetacean, the speed 592 2, 12 | I replied. ~"Those are cachalots--terrible animals, which 593 2, 7 | by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed 594 2, 6 | Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Caeruleus Proteus," ~as he pointed 595 1, 1 | They sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed it in the papers, 596 2, 10 | to offer you a succulent cake." ~{`bread-fruit' has been 597 1, 4 | chatting, discussing, and calculating the various chances of a 598 1, 2 | line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the 599 2, 2 | does one risk in such a calling?" said Ned Land, "the swallowing 600 2, 12 | enthusiasm had somewhat calmed; "it is a terrible spectacle, 601 2, 9 | return with some degree of calmness to my accustomed work. ~ 602 1, 8 | around with cold assurance; calmness--for his skin, rather pale, 603 1, 17 | things to multiply in it--caloric, salt, and animalculae." ~ 604 2, 4 | blocked up with sand that the camels can barely bathe their legs 605 1, 13 | carrying with it trunks of camphor-trees and other indigenous productions, 606 2, 12 | autumnal days. It was the Canadian-- he could not be mistaken-- 607 2, 4 | slid into the labyrinth of canals which separate the Maldives 608 2, 6 | that we were going towards Candia, the ancient Isle of Crete. 609 1, 16 | very disagreeable to cross. Candidly, I could do no more when 610 1, 17 | Sclaves, and a Greek, or a Candiote. They were civil, and only 611 2, 19 | sea nor wind. The hurri cane blew nearly forty leagues 612 2, 14 | the bottom, and two large canine teeth in the shape of a 613 1, 10 | unintentionally that your cannon-balls rebounded off the plating 614 1, 10 | as soon have pursued and cannonaded a submarine boat as a monster?" ~ 615 1, 12 | tenth part of her total capacity." ~I had nothing to object 616 1, 18 | island of the group, between Capes Deception and Satisfaction." ~" 617 1, 5 | the curious people of the capital!" ~"As you say, Conseil. 618 1, 18 | anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a 619 1, 20 | rapidly but what the electric capsule could stop their course. ~" 620 1, 14 | only ask you one thing, Captain--how can you light your road 621 1, 2 | give here an extract from a carefully-studied article which I published 622 1, 17 | continued, "it wakes under the caresses of the sun. It is going 623 1, 1 | There appeared in the papers caricatures of every gigantic and imaginary 624 1, 16 | a scale of colours pink, carmine, green, olive, fawn, and 625 2, 12 | its terrible spur. What carnage! What a noise on the surface 626 2, 19 | the height of the North Caroline. The width of the Gulf Stream 627 2, 6 | lines from Virgil: ~"Est Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Caeruleus 628 2, 6 | were near the Island of Carpathos, one of the Sporades, by 629 1, 22 | east point of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The reefs were still numerous, 630 1, 1 | been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, who rushed on to 631 2, 9 | pointed like a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, 632 1, 22 | having skirted the sands of Cartier, of Hibernia, Seringapatam, 633 2, 12 | great cavities divided by cartilages, that is to be found from 634 2, 10 | like black shadows clearly carved against the luminous atmosphere. 635 2, 9 | of lava which fell in a cascade of fire into the bosom of 636 2, 8 | ingots of gold and silver, cascades of piastres and jewels. 637 2, 2 | boy. Some are a perfect casket. One oyster has been mentioned, 638 1, 13 | Northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas formed but 639 2, 6 | of our era, according to Cassiodorus and Pliny, a new island, 640 2, 9 | vague and shadowy forms of castles and temples, clothed with 641 1, 1 | this moment all unlucky casualties which could not be otherwise 642 1, 16 | whiskers like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, 643 2, 9 | which had been swallowed by cataclysms? Who had placed those rocks 644 2, 22 | earth, thrown across the cataract which defends the approach 645 1, 18 | of the series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus was destined 646 1, 21 | confidence of the Captain was catching--sometimes forgetting them 647 2, 11 | understand why the Captain cautioned me thus, when I was thrown 648 1, 6 | half steam, and advanced cautiously so as not to awake its adversary. 649 2, 18 | said, "these are proper caverns for poulps, and I should 650 2, 12 | enormous head, in great cavities divided by cartilages, that 651 1, 10 | below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, 652 2, 16 | useless to attack it on the ceiling-like surface, since the iceberg 653 1, 18 | Captain. ~"And I can visit the celebrated islands where the Boussole 654 2, 14 | rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells placed between two quartz 655 1, 12 | strong. Indeed, owing to this cellular arrangement it resists like 656 2, 7 | vital heat." ~"In how many centuries?" ~"In some hundreds of 657 2, 18 | studying this specimen of cephalopods. I overcame the horror that 658 1, 3 | Conseil had one fault: he was ceremonious to a degree, and would never 659 1, 14 | share my breakfast without ceremony; we will chat as we eat. 660 2, 6 | passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago 661 1, 4 | hull of a vessel." ~"Yes--certainly--perhaps," replied the Canadian, 662 2, 12 | Cape whale by the seven cervical vertebrae, and it has two 663 2, 1 | very dangerous. They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown 664 2, 7 | exists between Gibraltar and Ceuta, which in geological times 665 2, 5 | breaking upon the shore, chafing against the rocks, or the 666 2, 1 | during which we had been chained in prison, the sleep, and 667 2, 9 | and, picking up a piece of chalk-stone, advanced to a rock of black 668 1, 17 | They were a large kind of "chaluts," like those on the Normandy 669 2, 10 | lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number 670 1, 11 | the air and foretells the changes of the weather; the hygrometer, 671 2, 4 | again, perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off 672 2, 22 | harmony to an undefinable chant, the wail of a soul longing 673 2, 14 | an immense country and a chaotic heap of rocks and ice, the 674 1, 8 | and the vivacity which characterises the population of Southern 675 1, 14 | either saltpetre, sulphur, or charcoal?" ~"Besides," I added, " 676 1, 14 | number four, and that the charge for an ordinary gun would 677 1, 5 | could not be placed to their charge--there remained nothing but 678 2, 20 | ice; and close by, a vast charnel-house of molluscs, which perish 679 1, 14 | without ceremony; we will chat as we eat. For, though I 680 1, 14 | I let the worthy fellow chatter as he pleased, without caring 681 1, 20 | For the moment, they were chattering with parrots of all colours, 682 1, 5 | excitement! The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the 683 1, 6 | with which were mingled the cheers of the crew. ~The bullet 684 2, 12 | shape of salt butter or cheese it would form an agreeable 685 2, 2 | or their ears; for the chemist it is a mixture of phosphate 686 2, 21 | have lost all that I loved, cherished, and venerated--country, 687 2, 20 | battle of Comte de Grasse, in Chesapeake Bay. In 1794, the French 688 1, 20 | emerald colour at the throat, chestnut on the breast and belly. 689 1, 16 | very valuable. Its skin, chestnut-brown above and silvery underneath, 690 2, 9 | riches are safer than in the chests of the State." ~I then related 691 2, 21 | were no longer hunting a chimerical creature, but a man who 692 1, 21 | the bay, without masts or chimneys, what could they think of 693 1, 9 | the oxygen contained in chlorate of potash, and in absorbing 694 1, 11 | in a smaller quantity, chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, 695 1, 10 | you give us simply the choice between life and death?" ~" 696 2, 14 | we will go on shore and choose a post for observation." ~ 697 1, 14 | ground," said I, "he at least chooses desert islands." ~Ned Land 698 2, 2 | their tails with a blow of a chopper, ripping them up, and throwing 699 2, 11 | quivered like a sonorous chord and sank regularly under 700 1, 21 | from whence I heard some chords. Captain Nemo was there, 701 2, 4 | the year 615 before Jesus Christ, Necos undertook the works 702 2, 4 | to know the opinion of a chronicler of the fourteenth century?" ~" 703 2, 10 | gone. Here and there some chrysanthemums grew timidly at the foot 704 2, 3 | of the waters to the poor Cingalese was accepted with a trembling 705 2, 13 | months of darkness in these circumpolar regions. On the 15th of 706 1, 20 | themselves be approached. Their circumspection proved to me that these 707 1, 19 | know, at least, how to act circumspectly? There is an island; on 708 1, 10 | passes here save under rare circumstances--the liberty, in short, which 709 2, 19 | horizon fine streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by 710 1, 17 | free towns, independent cities. Yet who knows whether some 711 2, 4 | Yes! honour to the great citizen," I replied, surprised by 712 1, 17 | or a Candiote. They were civil, and only used that odd 713 2, 11 | Captain. But was I free to claim this liberty? Had he not 714 1, 13 | opened on to the platform, clambered up the iron steps, and found 715 2, 14 | gesture, but extravagant in clamour. Albatrosses passed in the 716 1, 6 | and three-tenths, sir." ~"Clap on more steam." ~The engineer 717 2, 15 | Saying which, Conseil clapped his hands over his eyes. ~" 718 2, 19 | roaring of the wind, and the claps of thunder. The wind veered 719 1, 1 | size all those hitherto classified in science. Taking into 720 1, 16 | whether Conseil stopped to classify them; for my part, I noticed 721 1, 2 | was occupying myself in classifying my mineralogical, botanical, 722 1, 1 | supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fables, 723 2, 9 | road, or some frightful claw closing with a noise in 724 1, 20 | The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having 725 1, 6 | The horizon grew wider and clearer at the same time. Suddenly, 726 1, 16 | I knew that even in the clearest waters the solar rays could 727 2, 8 | their diving-dresses were clearing away half-rotten barrels 728 1, 10 | cruelty." ~"No, sir, it is clemency. You are my prisoners of 729 1, 22 | were set; his stiff body, clenched fists, and head shrunk between 730 2, 9 | moving their claws with the clicking sound of pincers; titanic 731 2, 18 | There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds. 732 2, 15 | accustomed to live in a hard climate, they remained on these 733 2, 7 | one of the most powerful climates of the globe. But, beautiful 734 2, 9 | crustacea. I went along, climbing the rocks, striding over 735 1, 8 | nothing. I felt my naked feet cling to the rungs of an iron 736 2, 14 | saw myriads of northern clios, one-and-a-quarter inches 737 2, 21 | from her two funnels. Her closely-furled sails were stopped to her 738 1, 12 | spontaneously, and not by the closeness of its rivets; and its perfect 739 1, 14 | the foul, and the tongue closes one or the other according 740 1, 23 | which was much injured. Clots of blood had formed in the 741 2, 19 | raging sea was swept by huge cloud-drifts, which were actually saturated 742 1, 22 | porpoise (the indefatigable clown of the ocean), and some 743 1, 7 | a hard body struck me. I clung to it: then I felt that 744 1, 17 | his forehead, and his hand clutching the wheel of the helm, seemed 745 2, 10 | to get the sodium, and a coal-mine to supply the coal. And 746 2, 10 | CHAPTER X~THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES~The next day, the 20th of 747 2, 11 | then form inexhaustible coal-mines-- a precious reserve prepared 748 2, 9 | gigantic pines. It was like a coal-pit still standing, holding 749 2, 19 | by the little schooners coasting about the several parts 750 1, 20 | of all colours, and grave cockatoos, who seemed to meditate 751 1, 20 | useful. He discovered a coco-tree, beat down some of the fruit, 752 2, 1 | planted with magnificent cocos, and which had been visited 753 1, 11 | on a system of levers and cog-wheels that transmit the movement 754 1, 22 | account for it, when my cogitations were disturbed by these 755 1, 12 | Its sides cannot yield; it coheres spontaneously, and not by 756 2, 13 | poles of the earth do not coincide, either in the southern 757 2, 14 | the half-disc of the sun coincided with twelve o'clock on the 758 2, 1 | regions the water was always colder in the high levels than 759 1, 10 | regained his accustomed coldness of expression, and turning 760 1, 14 | perfected in England by Philip Coles and Burley, in France by 761 1, 7 | the water, that my chest collapsed--I fainted. ~It is certain 762 1, 15 | flowers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars 763 1, 21 | necks with a crescent and collars of glass beads, red and 764 1, 23 | repeated. "Several of your colleagues have studied medicine." ~" 765 1, 10 | to gratify his fancy for collecting, when I was interrupted 766 1, 14 | wire is introduced which collects the electricity produced, 767 1, 2 | Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted 768 2, 10 | regular prisms, placed like a colonnade supporting the spring of 769 1, 15 | palette of an enthusiastic colourist! Why could I not communicate 770 2, 4 | the name of the Gulf of Colzoum, and relates that vessels 771 1, 4 | related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of 772 2, 10 | earth. When I burn this combustible for the manufacture of sodium, 773 1, 10 | to afford the greatest comfort. Light movable desks, made 774 1, 11 | this kitchen was a bathroom comfortably furnished, with hot and 775 1, 10 | lighted by a skylight. No comforts, the strictest necessaries 776 1, 16 | breastplate of air, in the most comical way in the world. ~After 777 2, 8 | French port. ~"The Spanish commanders of the convoy objected to 778 1, 2 | Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission as soon as possible. The 779 2, 12 | Land. ~I feared he would commit some act of violence, which 780 2, 10 | harbour of refuge, a sure, commodious, and mysterious one, sheltered 781 1, 18 | Entrecasteaux, ignoring this communication-- rather uncertain, besides-- 782 1, 1 | off, the Helvetia, of the Compagnie-Nationale, and the Shannon, of the 783 1, 2 | papers devoted to insurance companies which threatened to raise 784 1, 16 | position, as well as to the comparative darkness which surrounded 785 2, 1 | shells, which Cuvier justly compares to an elegant skiff. A boat 786 2, 12 | expends at a breath, and comparing these results with the fact 787 1, 4 | of which would defy all comparison." ~"And why this powerful 788 1, 14 | reserved such wonderful compensation for us that we had no right 789 1, 2 | supported by minds little competent to form a judgment, was 790 2, 1 | books in the library, the compiling of my memoirs, took up all 791 2, 8 | them of their rights. They complained at Madrid, and obtained 792 1, 21 | to my mouth, Ned Land's completing its office. ~"Stones do 793 2, 6 | was each day nearer the completion of my submarine studies; 794 2, 19 | noise filled the air, a complex noise, made up of the howls 795 1, 22 | made by means of rather complicated instruments, and with somewhat 796 1, 5 | had not time to finish his compliment. In the midst of general 797 1, 11 | sea-water, and of which I compose my ingredients. I owe all 798 1, 10 | have to do with musical composers, a piano, and a brief revery 799 1, 13 | quintillions of tons. To comprehend the meaning of these figures, 800 1, 12 | least capable of very slight compression. Indeed, after the most 801 1, 13 | of acres. This fluid mass comprises two billions two hundred 802 1, 8 | the harpooner, "and do not compromise us by useless violence. 803 2, 8 | myself the responsibility of compromising the future of my companions? 804 2, 1 | and you need not try to compute the number of these infusoria. 805 2, 20 | took part in the battle of Comte de Grasse, in Chesapeake 806 1, 2 | CHAPTER II~PRO AND CON~At the period when these 807 1, 22 | Imprisonment was not enough to conceal Captain Nemo's projects 808 1, 8 | boards of this prison were concealed under a thick mat, which 809 2, 8 | many days my life had been concentrated, I was going to abandon 810 1, 2 | human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. 811 2, 19 | not only myself whom it concerns. Study is to me a relief, 812 1, 1 | length--we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being 813 2, 3 | to the Manaar Bank. ~Two conclusions I must inevitably draw from 814 1, 6 | elongated, the centre of which condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering 815 1, 18 | unlucky place. This ambiguous conduct led them to believe that 816 2, 20 | principles. The bundles of conducting wires were each enveloped 817 1, 9 | air freely, I sought the conduit pipe, which conveyed to 818 1, 20 | an artichoke. ~It must be confessed this bread was excellent, 819 2, 22 | enough! enough!" ~Was it a confession of remorse which thus escaped 820 2, 15 | I wished to appear more confident than I really was. But the 821 2, 1 | the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events 822 2, 6 | here that facts seemed to confirm my foresight, to the Canadian' 823 1, 12 | them since daily experience confirms them; but I foresee a real 824 2, 9 | man aught to do with this conflagration? Had he fanned this flame? 825 2, 12 | new monster joining in the conflict. But they soon had to guard 826 1, 23 | platform, and, a prey to conflicting emotions, I sat down near 827 1, 9 | Master Land, we must conform to the rules on board, and 828 1, 2 | for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit 829 1, 11 | obedient, rapid, easy, which conforms to every use, and reigns 830 1, 16 | minutes I involuntarily confounded the genera, taking animals 831 2, 12 | has two more ribs than its congeners. The unfortunate cetacean 832 2, 10 | walk carefully among these conglomerates, bound by no cement, the 833 1, 3 | far away, whether China or Congo. Besides all this, he had 834 2, 11 | of the American frigate Congress, could not touch the bottom 835 1, 2 | above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced; 836 1, 22 | shores of Europe? Improbable conjectures both, to a man who fled 837 2, 6 | tried to sleep--I sought the connecting link between the apparition 838 1, 23 | know why. I saw certain connection between the illness of one 839 1, 11 | orders. An electric thread connects us. I telegraph to it, and 840 2, 11 | work on submarine depths, conned over by him, was covered 841 2, 16 | hours passed thus, but I was conscious of the agony that was coming 842 2, 20 | TO LONGITUDE 17° 28'~In consequence of the storm, we had been 843 1, 16 | upon it as his own, and considered he had the same right over 844 2, 11 | In the phenomenon we are considering, the Atlantic is the vase, 845 1, 10 | unforeseen, may oblige me to consign you to your cabins for some 846 2, 20 | worthy fellow, and by way of consolation related several particulars 847 2, 8 | miserable creatures to console, victims to avenge? Do you 848 1, 21 | for us, half laughing, we consoled and rubbed the unfortunate 849 2, 14 | brought to the shore. These constituted the meagre flora of this 850 1, 12 | engineer." ~"But how could you construct this wonderful Nautilus 851 1, 12 | have exceeded that weight, constructing it on the aforesaid dimensions. ~" 852 1, 12 | adopted in London in several constructions of the same sort. The length 853 2, 8 | the saloon. I wished to consult the compass. I wished to 854 1, 9 | large, we had evidently consumed a great part of the oxygen 855 1, 15 | noticeable between these consummate apparatuses and the old 856 1, 11 | the air necessary for my consumption, but it is useless, because 857 2, 4 | panels we were allowed to contemplate the beautiful bushes of 858 2, 9 | the very spot where the contemporaries of the first man had walked. ~ 859 2, 9 | thousand generations old and contemporary with the geological epochs. 860 2, 1 | servants who return mankind contempt for indifference. For him, 861 1, 10 | to more than one of the continental palaces, and I am absolutely 862 2, 9 | redoubling, sometimes producing a continual shower, I soon understood 863 1, 21 | cries and making the wildest contortions. ~Ten of his companions 864 1, 9 | my opinion." ~"I will not contradict you," replied Ned Land. " 865 1, 4 | and very passionate when contradicted. His person attracted attention, 866 2, 11 | with marginal notes, often contradicting my theories and systems; 867 1, 14 | to accuse me of folly and contradiction." ~"I listen." ~"You know 868 1, 14 | seeking to reconcile what was contradictory between Captain Nemo's manifest 869 1, 10 | followed him. A double door, contrived at the back of the dining-room, 870 1, 23 | of wine. ~There was both contusion and suffusion of the brain. 871 1, 3 | Conseil to stow our trunks conveniently away, and remounted the 872 2, 19 | Frenchman, forgetting his conventional language, had taken to his 873 1, 9 | the conduit pipe, which conveyed to us the beneficial whiff, 874 2, 7 | since recognised, which conveys the waters of the ocean 875 1, 17 | distorted as they were by their convulsive movements, whilst making 876 2, 19 | extraordinary man who was coping with it. The raging sea 877 1, 16 | hand, to cut down the dark copses? ~This forest was composed 878 1, 23 | fortunes of a company of coral-divers. This precious matter, often 879 2, 4 | Kiltan, a land originally coraline, discovered by Vasco da 880 1, 19 | was immovable, as if the coralline polypi had already walled 881 1, 2 | at your disposal. ~Very cordially yours, J.B. HOBSON, Secretary 882 2, 20 | the escort of a cargo of corn coming from America, under 883 1, 17 | of the bridge, where some corpses, bound with ropes, were 884 2, 14 | which, by means of a mirror, corrected the refraction, watched 885 1, 3 | arrangements of the frigate corresponded to its nautical qualities. 886 2, 6 | Who was Captain Nemo's correspondent? ~The next day I related 887 1, 5 | Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, 888 1, 18 | with the French arms, and corroded by the salt water. He opened 889 2, 8 | the conquered of Ferdinand Cortez. ~"Did you know, sir," he 890 1, 12 | Aronnax, an iron vessel costs L145 per ton. Now the Nautilus 891 1, 19 | perilous, and I should not have counselled Ned Land to attempt it. 892 2, 1 | steamer running west on our counter. Her masts were visible 893 2, 16 | that calm tone which could counteract the most terrible apprehensions. " 894 2, 5 | Djeddah, the most important counting-house of Egypt, Syria, Turkey, 895 1, 14 | invented by two of your own countrymen, which I have brought to 896 1, 16 | threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, 897 1, 8 | of his lofty brows; and courage--because his deep breathing 898 1, 10 | certain mussels of the water courses of the North; lastly, several 899 1, 21 | disturbing you," said I, for courtesy's sake. ~"That is true, 900 2, 19 | thought that Captain Nemo was courting a death worthy of himself, 901 2, 12 | to be distinguished from cow's milk. I tasted it, and 902 1, 2 | These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a 903 2, 13 | split it with frightful crackings. It was the battering ram 904 1, 20 | a fire of dead wood that crackled joyously. During this time, 905 2, 14 | sulphurous smell from the smoking cracks. For a man unaccustomed 906 1, 7 | under the strain of violent cramp. Conseil was obliged to 907 2, 22 | the words, when we heard a crashing noise, the bolts gave way, 908 2, 14 | countries, James Ross found two craters, the Erebus and Terror, 909 1, 21 | seemed not to understand the craving for meat that possessed 910 1, 9 | Ned Land, tormented by the cravings of hunger, got still more 911 1, 21 | battery care for the ants that crawl over its front. ~At six 912 1, 10 | in the world; here is a cream, of which the milk has been 913 2, 3 | inexhaustible, for Nature's creative power is far beyond man' 914 1, 18 | and not knowing how to credit the reports of low-class 915 1, 12 | Was he playing upon my credulity? The future would decide 916 1, 21 | ornamented their necks with a crescent and collars of glass beads, 917 2, 22 | Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, 918 2, 9 | giddiness. Now I jumped a crevice, the depth of which would 919 1, 18 | without some difficulty, their crews hauled up an anchor weighing 920 2, 20 | sea. From that time the criminal attempt was never repeated. ~ 921 1, 21 | hips to knees in quite a crinoline of herbs, that sustained 922 2, 9 | rain falling violently, and crisping the surface of the waves. 923 2, 3 | dark depths of the waves crisply like spats of melted lead. 924 2, 19 | retired. Our situation was critical. I related my conversation 925 2, 9 | those rocks and stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times? Where 926 1, 20 | habit of stuffing their crops, flavours their flesh and 927 2, 15 | glittered that wondrous Southern Cross-- the polar bear of Antarctic 928 2, 19 | new secrets?" ~We were at cross-purposes. But, before I could reply, 929 1, 4 | quarters voluntarily in the cross-trees, who would have cursed such 930 1, 13 | rays of a tropical sun, crosses the Straits of Malacca along 931 2, 18 | eight yards long. It swam crossways in the direction of the 932 2, 3 | by a gesture he bade us crouch beside him in a deep fracture 933 2, 9 | eyes of giant crustacea crouched in their holes; giant lobsters 934 2, 21 | The poor creatures were crowding the ratlines, clinging to 935 2, 14 | looked at the last rays crowning the peak, and the shadows 936 2, 12 | hundred. As to those, they are cruel, mischievous creatures; 937 1, 10 | situation towards us; it is cruelty." ~"No, sir, it is clemency. 938 1, 16 | pointed out the hideous crustacean, which a blow from the butt 939 1, 18 | aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, 940 1, 18 | his course towards Santa Cruz, and put into Namouka, one 941 2, 3 | bottom of this submarine crypt? I was soon to know. After 942 2, 18 | of a cuttlefish as five cubits, or nine feet two inches. 943 2, 12 | creature), your traders do a culpable action, Master Land. They 944 1, 10 | property there, which I cultivate myself, and which is always 945 1, 17 | group. I saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several 946 1, 19 | to the south-west towards Cumberland Passage. I thought it was 947 2, 19 | were succeeded by masses of cumuli. Other low clouds passed 948 1, 1 | favourable, the Scotia, of the Cunard Company's line, found herself 949 2, 12 | The Captain offered me a cup of the milk, which was still 950 2, 9 | be heard moving. My blood curdled when I saw enormous antennae 951 2, 19 | nostalgia that flight only could cure. ~"Master," he said that 952 2, 17 | follow us, and the natural curiosities of these seas escaped all 953 1, 19 | Captain Nemo looked at me curiously, and made a negative gesture, 954 2, 6 | A sulphurous smoke was curling amid the waves, which boiled 955 2, 14 | origin. In some parts, slight curls of smoke emitted a sulphurous 956 2, 5 | only struck the water. ~"Curse it!" exclaimed the Canadian 957 1, 21 | Torres uninjured." ~Having curtly pronounced these words, 958 1, 10 | brown leather, which were curved, to afford the greatest 959 2, 9 | branches, like fine black paper cuttings, showed distinctly on the 960 2, 18 | the staring eyes of the cuttle fish. But my bold companion 961 2, 1 | and fluted shells, which Cuvier justly compares to an elegant 962 2, 6 | is well known in all the Cyclades. A bold diver! water is 963 2, 6 | the Nautilus before the cycle of investigation was accomplished. ~" 964 1, 6 | like the steam in the vast cylinders of a machine of two thousand 965 2, 6 | copper plate, bearing the cypher of the Nautilus with its 966 2, 20 | however, were not discouraged. Cyrus Field, the bold promoter 967 2, 4 | coraline, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1499, and one of 968 1, 1 | its route without apparent damage. Had it struck on a submerged 969 2, 20 | night they had recovered the damaged part. They made another 970 2, 14 | gigantic petrels, and some damiers, a kind of small duck, the 971 2, 16 | danger. What was the good of damping the energy they displayed 972 2, 4 | Captain, what the ancients dared not undertake, this junction 973 2, 4 | abreast. It was carried on by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and 974 1, 5 | rays of the moon, which darted between two clouds, then 975 1, 6 | forwards, backwards; it is darting towards us!" ~A general 976 2, 1 | had been visited by Mr. Darwin and Captain Fitzroy. The 977 1, 19 | Round the Nautilus the sea dashed furiously. The course of 978 2, 16 | gradually gave way; and at last, dashing suddenly against it, shot 979 2, 4 | here and there some verdant date-trees; once an important city, 980 2, 21 | day of the 2nd of June had dawned. ~At five o'clock, the log 981 1, 7 | some hours, perhaps till day-break. Poor chance! but hope is 982 1, 7 | caused its prodigious speed? ~Daybreak appeared. The morning mists 983 1, 17 | 2,000 miles. ~During the daytime of the 11th of December 984 1, 9 | in vain. The walls were deaf. There was no sound to be 985 1, 8 | the steward--dumb, perhaps deaf--had arranged the table, 986 2, 3 | hand with the monster, and dealing successive blows at his 987 1, 21 | Papuans had already had dealings with the Europeans and knew 988 1, 23 | light that was shed over his death-bed. I looked at his intelligent 989 2, 3 | tail might have been his death-blow. ~Happily, with the Captain' 990 2, 3 | aim. It was the monster's death-rattle. Struck to the heart, it 991 1, 12 | missing it, pay the national debt of France." ~I stared at 992 1, 4 | circumstances!" ~"That is just what deceives you, Professor," replied 993 1, 18 | the group, between Capes Deception and Satisfaction." ~"How 994 2, 1 | genius who, tired of earth's deceptions, had taken refuge in this 995 1, 5 | some minutes' pursuit. ~Decidedly, if the monster ever had 996 2, 3 | yet still unable to give a decisive one. ~The shark's struggles 997 2, 21 | compressed air blew up her decks, as if the magazines had 998 1, 15 | better, I talked to myself; I declaimed in the copper box which 999 1, 2 | machine fell before the declaration of Governments. As public 1000 1, 20 | devoured to the bones, and declared excellent. The nutmeg, with 1001 2, 4 | saw it navigated: but its decline from the point of departure, 1002 1, 21 | land, an invitation that I declined. ~So that, on that day, 1003 1, 20 | have arrived at the first declivities of the mountains, and I