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1004 1, 11 | the contents of which, by decomposing, announce the approach of 1005 2, 2 | are in a forward state of decomposition. They are then plunged into 1006 2, 13 | deadened sound. We had in deed "struck," to use a sea expression, 1007 1, 16 | accordingly the darkness deepened. At ten paces not an object 1008 1, 2 | has still secrets in the deeps for us, nothing is more 1009 1, 12 | hearts never fail them. No defects to be afraid of, for the 1010 1, 4 | furnished with a horn of defence of great penetrating power." ~" 1011 2, 22 | across the cataract which defends the approach to the pole." 1012 1, 16 | reservoir supplied air very deficient in oxygen. But I did not 1013 1, 22 | thousand yards, and the definite result of this experience 1014 1, 21 | wonder, I might say a natural deformity, very rarely met with. Conseil 1015 2, 17 | leagues. {8 paragraphs are deleted from this edition} ~ 1016 2, 16 | means to drive away this deleterious gas. We had plenty of oxygen; 1017 2, 3 | Conseil were already there, delighted at the idea of the "pleasure 1018 2, 17 | Ah!" said Conseil, "how delightful this oxygen is! Master need 1019 2, 16 | of time necessary for our deliverance? We might be suffocated 1020 1, 13 | then disappeared in partial deluges, reappeared, became settled, 1021 2, 3 | stomach of a Gargantua to demolish some dozens of them. ~Captain 1022 2, 11 | same water in which Captain Denham of the Herald sounded 7,000 1023 2, 18 | which does not permit of the denial of the existence of these 1024 1, 18 | natives, adopting a system of denials and evasions, refused to 1025 2, 9 | of Plato, that continent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who 1026 2, 19 | regain his liberty." ~"Who denies you this right? Have I ever 1027 1, 8 | because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs. ~Whether 1028 2, 16 | sufferings in hope. Our safety depended on this last chance. Notwithstanding 1029 1, 22 | nothing but the strange fear depicted in the Captain's countenance. 1030 1, 20 | next day, for he wished to depopulate it of all the eatable quadrupeds. 1031 2, 12 | Land. They have already depopulated the whole of Baffin's Bay, 1032 2, 10 | glimmer over these volcanic depressions for ever buried in the bosom 1033 2, 8 | at the port of Vigo was depriving them of their rights. They 1034 1, 5 | and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one 1035 2, 11 | beating the waves with in describable force. Under this powerful 1036 1, 18 | guide and interpreter a deserter found on the island; made 1037 1, 5 | you will only get your deserts." ~"Indeed!" ~"When one 1038 1, 20 | will see that I have not deserved great merit." ~"Why, Conseil?" ~" 1039 2, 10 | being yet taken, perhaps designedly, I was ignorant of our exact 1040 1, 20 | had not all the plainness desirable. ~"Suppose we do not return 1041 1, 10 | greatest comfort. Light movable desks, made to slide in and out 1042 1, 20 | our approach, and truly I despaired of getting near one when 1043 2, 18 | in now, the crew of the despatch-boat Alector perceived a monstrous 1044 1, 3 | service required of him; and, despite his name, never giving advice-- 1045 1, 17 | Yet who knows whether some despot " ~Captain Nemo finished 1046 2, 6 | insurrection against the despotism of the Turks. But how the 1047 1, 10 | The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can 1048 1, 3 | and equipped for her new destination. She was a frigate of great 1049 1, 19 | walled it up with their in destructible cement. ~"Well, sir?" said 1050 2, 16 | about 6,000 cubic yards to detach, so as to dig a hole by 1051 1, 8 | second stranger merits a more detailed description. I made out 1052 2, 2 | would you give us some details of the pearl fishery?" ~" 1053 1, 21 | going away; But Captain Nemo detained me, and asked me to sit 1054 2, 15 | here, my friends," said I, detaining them. "Let us remain together 1055 1, 10 | me with his harpoon?" ~I detected a restrained irritation 1056 1, 21 | circumnavigation, his double detention at the South Pole, which 1057 2, 6 | Ned Land, shaking his head determinedly. ~"And now, Ned Land," I 1058 2, 13 | amidst hurricanes of snow. Detonations and falls were heard on 1059 1, 5 | now became its most ardent detractors. Reaction mounted from the 1060 2, 7 | quantity every century to the detriment of our globe, for its heat 1061 2, 1 | which the luminous arc was developed--an important point of economy 1062 2, 13 | the needle of the compass deviated on the dial. At about 900 1063 1, 5 | at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering 1064 2, 6 | of the Nautilus with its device. ~At that moment, the Captain, 1065 1, 7 | up, and our preservation devolved on him alone. I heard the 1066 1, 11 | with their repast, were devouring it with avidity. Then a 1067 2, 2 | Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; to the ladies, 1068 1, 16 | brought it within the reach of dexterous hunter's grasp. It was an 1069 2, 2 | that is, that bright and diapered sparkle which makes them 1070 2, 14 | microscopic plants, rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells placed 1071 1, 1 | whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, 1072 2, 1 | writing as events shall dictate. ~That day, the 24th of 1073 1, 22 | habit, tried to vary the diet on board. Like snails, we 1074 1, 23 | fathoms depth. This bottom differed entirely from the one I 1075 2, 13 | same. You see nothing but difficulties and obstacles. I affirm 1076 2, 9 | bearing all these gases in diffusion and torrents of lava slid 1077 1, 2 | I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give 1078 2, 22 | betraying themselves. At six I dined, but I was not hungry; I 1079 1, 8 | or vegetable. As to the dinner-service, it was elegant, and in 1080 2, 13 | the whole landscape like a diorama. Often seeing no exit, I 1081 2, 5 | slackened, and the oars dipped noiselessly into the quiet 1082 1, 14 | electricity produced, and directs it towards a particularly 1083 1, 10 | quenched, and their power disappears. Ah! sir, live--live in 1084 2, 20 | large steam vessel could be discerned on the horizon. No flag 1085 2, 8 | that the convoy, without discharging its cargo, should remain 1086 2, 16 | submitted first to this severe discipline. When the time came, he 1087 1, 23 | fantastic architecture, were disclosed before us. Captain Nemo 1088 2, 5 | I saw a pale light, half discoloured by the fog, shining about 1089 1, 5 | sailors could not hide their discontent, and the service suffered. 1090 2, 1 | magnificent albatrosses, uttering discordant cries like the braying of 1091 2, 20 | Americans, however, were not discouraged. Cyrus Field, the bold promoter 1092 1, 4 | They were ever chatting, discussing, and calculating the various 1093 1, 10 | you are ignorant of the discussions which have taken place concerning 1094 1, 10 | plainly. A flash of anger and disdain kindled in the eyes of the 1095 1, 6 | monster, who, as before, disdained to answer them; the captain 1096 1, 6 | cable's length; then, as if disdaining to dive, it took a little 1097 2, 8 | the West Indies. Now, to disembark these ingots at the port 1098 2, 3 | us to the exact point of disembarking, which will save us a long 1099 2, 3 | Conseil. ~But Ned Land had disentangled the Captain, who, getting 1100 1, 19 | twenty-five minutes to offer you a dish, of my sort." ~At half-past 1101 2, 18 | island to another, was quite disheartened. Flight would have been 1102 1, 21 | bowed slightly. This was to dismiss me, and I went back to my 1103 2, 12 | Professor. The Nautilus will disperse them. It is armed with a 1104 2, 18 | with it. When the cloud dispersed, the cuttlefish had disappeared, 1105 1, 12 | consequently it ought only to displace nine-tenths of its bulk, 1106 2, 19 | these, at the Hebrides, have displaced a mass weighing 8,400 lb. 1107 2, 4 | there not only did this display of zoophytes flourish beneath 1108 1, 1 | with that tendency which disposes the human mind in favour 1109 1, 20 | those magnificent birds, the disposition of whose long feathers obliges 1110 2, 10 | black basalt, the first dispread in layers full of bubbles, 1111 2, 3 | sank to the ground. The disquieting idea of sharks shot through 1112 1, 21 | showed itself through the dissipating fogs, first the shore, then 1113 2, 16 | considerable quantity, and by dissolving it with our powerful piles, 1114 2, 1 | part, however, were soon distanced by our speed, though some 1115 2, 7 | he wished to avoid, was distasteful to Captain Nemo. Those waves 1116 1, 21 | lobes of their ears, cut and distended, hung chaplets of bones. 1117 2, 16 | galleys, where the vast distillatory machines stood that furnished 1118 1, 11 | distributed. They also heated a distilling apparatus, which, by evaporation, 1119 1, 10 | artistic confusion which distinguishes a painter's studio. ~{several 1120 2, 21 | distance prevented us from distinguishing the colours of her pennant, 1121 1, 17 | four sailors was frightful, distorted as they were by their convulsive 1122 2, 6 | despair. Did Captain Nemo distrust us in these frequented seas? 1123 1, 21 | a reverie that I did not disturb. I went up again on to the 1124 1, 3 | from habit, evincing little disturbance at the different surprises 1125 2, 14 | Nautilus amid these atmospheric disturbances. ~The tempest of snow continued 1126 1, 17 | It is going to renew its diurnal existence. It is an interesting 1127 2, 5 | which formed on each side diverging tusks. ~This dugong which 1128 2, 19 | Study is to me a relief, a diversion, a passion that could make 1129 1, 5 | the theatre of the last diversions of the monster: and, to 1130 1, 12 | tempest to brave, for when it dives below the water it reaches 1131 1, 13 | continents allows us to divide the waters into five great 1132 2, 11 | of N. lat., this current divides into two arms, the principal 1133 2, 6 | a new island, Theia (the divine), appeared in the very place 1134 1, 11 | which this is the exact division, starting from the ship' 1135 2, 16 | breathing was oppressed. Dizziness accompanied the pain in 1136 1, 1 | Scotia, which was put in dry dock. They could scarcely believe 1137 1, 18 | Astrolabe, but found no new document; but stated that the savages 1138 2, 12 | clinging to our vessel like dogs worrying a wild boar in 1139 2, 4 | relief. I saw the rounded domes of its mosques, the elegant 1140 2, 14 | of education, are easily domesticated, and I think, with other 1141 1, 9 | Soundly, Professor. But, I don't know if I am right or 1142 1, 15 | thousands, of hammerheads, donaciae (veritable bounding shells), 1143 2, 14 | right whale," which has no dorsal fin; the "humpback," with 1144 1, 19 | inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying fire-fish like 1145 2, 17 | of this immense valley is dotted with some mountains, that 1146 1, 22 | instruments, and with somewhat doubtful results, by means of thermometrical 1147 1, 16 | walked with their heads downward and their feet in the air. ~ 1148 1, 15 | period the earth sloped downwards; the light took a uniform 1149 1, 20 | breast and belly. Two horned, downy nets rose from below the 1150 1, 18 | certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear 1151 1, 21 | of high rank, for he was draped in a mat of banana-leaves, 1152 1, 10 | framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which 1153 2, 5 | the quays, and those whose draught of water obliged them to 1154 2, 5 | as the wounded creature draws it after him. But here the 1155 2, 9 | on a mossy stone. Was he dreaming of those generations long 1156 1, 13 | disappeared. But for a long time I dreamt on, till my eyes fell on 1157 2, 9 | hesitation. He knew this dreary road. Doubtless he had often 1158 1, 23 | mass, in colour like the dregs of wine. ~There was both 1159 1, 10 | elegant room, with a bed, dressing-table, and several other pieces 1160 1, 22 | motionless screw left her to drift at the mercy of the currents. 1161 2, 13 | seeming to have no limits, drift-ice or floating ice-packs, plains 1162 2, 10 | justifying their name, sadly drooped their clusters of flowers, 1163 1, 20 | had killed nothing. Hunger drove us on. The hunters had relied 1164 1, 7 | Never!" replied he. "I would drown first." ~Just then the moon 1165 2, 20 | these reefs when the wind drowns the breaking of the waves! 1166 2, 16 | head and made me like a drunken man. My companions showed 1167 1, 11 | hygrometer, which marks the dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, 1168 1, 18 | W.N.W., from the Island Ducie to that of Lazareff. This 1169 2, 14 | damiers, a kind of small duck, the underpart of whose 1170 1, 4 | the explosive balls of the duck-gun. On the forecastle lay the 1171 1, 6 | distance of a mile, and long duck-guns, with explosive bullets, 1172 2, 8 | his yoke, had imposed the Duke of Anjou, his grandson, 1173 1, 19 | we have not had time for dullness. The last marvel is always 1174 1, 5 | continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of 1175 1, 4 | I may have more time to dwell the longer on your memory. ~ 1176 1, 9 | commander of this floating dwelling-place proceed? Would he obtain 1177 1, 10 | and quarry the game which dwells in my submarine forests. 1178 1, 12 | not confound statics with dynamics or you will be exposed to 1179 1, 18 | space of 500 leagues at E.S.E. to W.N.W., from the Island 1180 1, 5 | taffrail, I devoured with eagerness the soft foam which whitened 1181 2, 13 | temperature. Two months earlier we should have had perpetual 1182 1, 21 | shoulder!" ~Conseil was in earnest, but I was not of his opinion. 1183 2, 2 | amongst these testacea the earshell, the tridacnae, the turbots, 1184 2, 22 | soul longing to break these earthly bonds. I listened with every 1185 1, 10 | So," said I, "all these eatables are the produce of the sea?" ~" 1186 1, 19 | showed itself, left by the ebb. We had run aground, and 1187 1, 23 | the dying man, whose life ebbed slowly. His pallor increased 1188 2, 23 | to the question asked by Ecclesiastes three thousand years ago, " 1189 2, 22 | roarings repeated by the echo miles away! What an uproar 1190 1, 9 | Or--a more convenient, economical, and consequently more probable 1191 2, 1 | its intensity. This vacuum economised the graphite points between 1192 1, 13 | Conseil classed them. I was in ecstasies with the vivacity of their 1193 2, 10 | for `artocarpus' in this ed.} ~"'Pon my word," said 1194 2, 23 | the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom-- how Ned 1195 1, 16 | horizon, the refraction edged the different objects with 1196 1, 13 | indigenous productions, and edging the waves of the ocean with 1197 1, 1 | monster" inflamed all minds. Editors of scientific journals, 1198 2, 4 | translation of the Hebrew word `Edom'; and if the ancients gave 1199 2, 4 | rainy season. The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name 1200 1, 12 | men that I instructed and educated, and myself have put together 1201 2, 5 | in order to offer more effective resistance, beat the waves 1202 2, 4 | of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you 1203 1, 15 | contrivances in vogue during the eighteenth century. ~Captain Nemo and 1204 1, 13 | estimated at upwards of eighty millions of acres. This 1205 2, 1 | we cut the equator at the eighty-second meridian and entered the 1206 1, 9 | increase my respirations to eke out of this cell the little 1207 1, 20 | and bounded along on their elastic paws. But these animals 1208 2, 8 | Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, 1209 1, 17 | went, and leaned on my elbows before the panes and watched. ~ 1210 2, 20 | with Europe had ceased. The electricians on board resolved to cut 1211 2, 10 | wherewithal to make the electricity--sodium to feed the elements, 1212 1, 11 | forward, where it works, by electro-magnets of great size, on a system 1213 2, 14 | the water, which is their element--the spine of these creatures 1214 1, 2 | terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as 1215 1, 18 | miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These 1216 1, 12 | gave the plan, section, and elevation of the Nautilus. Then he 1217 2, 17 | which carried it to all elevations. But on the 11th of April 1218 1, 6 | source of this brilliant emanation was exhausted. Then it reappeared 1219 1, 9 | and perfumed with saline emanations. It was an invigorating 1220 2, 7 | aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the 1221 1, 11 | But then, when you wish to embark, you are obliged to come 1222 2, 17 | made 1,600 miles since our embarkation in the seas of Japan. About 1223 1, 8 | my situation became more embarrassing. ~"If master were to tell 1224 1, 10 | sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful 1225 2, 17 | River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considerable 1226 2, 8 | parallel winding shores embrace an immense circumference, 1227 2, 23 | me holding my hands. We embraced each other heartily. ~At 1228 2, 2 | and are especially used in embroidery for church ornaments." ~" 1229 1, 21 | reservoirs, filled ready for any emergency, were now resorted to, and 1230 2, 11 | from the ocean, and, after emerging like a flying-fish, fell, 1231 2, 15 | driven away by the cold, have emigrated to the north, these sea 1232 2, 14 | parts, slight curls of smoke emitted a sulphurous smell, proving 1233 1, 13 | delicious), and fillets of the emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed 1234 2, 4 | Canadian, with peculiar emphasis. ~"Well, we shall penetrate 1235 2, 7 | Pluto still dispute the empire of the world! ~It is upon 1236 1, 12 | perfect union of the materials enables it to defy the roughest 1237 2, 10 | detached masses, covered with enamel, polished by the action 1238 2, 12 | taken for islands. People encamp upon them, and settle there; 1239 2, 4 | very place where Moses had encamped three thousand years before 1240 2, 14 | round the outskirts of their encampment. After examining this city 1241 2, 3 | two friends had already encased their heads in the metal 1242 2, 3 | nothing but a dark line enclosing three parts of the horizon, 1243 1, 14 | the respirator. But I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom 1244 2, 16 | me. He took my hand and encouraged me, and I heard him murmur, " 1245 2, 19 | This reception was not encouraging; but I was determined to 1246 2, 12 | They have plenty of natural enemies--cachalots, swordfish, and 1247 2, 9 | no other result than an energetically expressed regret from Ned 1248 1, 8 | showed his coolness of blood; energy--evinced by the rapid contraction 1249 2, 16 | qualities were considerably enfeebled. However, after a lapse 1250 2, 19 | waterspouts and cyclones actually engendered by the current of the Gulf 1251 1, 16 | magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine 1252 1, 8 | initial of the name of the enigmatical person who commanded at 1253 1, 10 | liberty, in short, which we enjoy ourselves, my companions 1254 1, 14 | all, as Conseil said, we enjoyed perfect liberty, we were 1255 2, 17 | filled us with this keen enjoyment. ~"Ah!" said Conseil, "how 1256 1, 20 | of a little wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight 1257 2, 1 | left me not a moment of ennui or weariness. ~For some 1258 2, 22 | Captain Nemo seemed to grow enormously, his features to assume 1259 1, 21 | was promising myself to enrich the museum with it, when 1260 2, 5 | larder of the Nautilus was enriched by some more delicate game. 1261 1, 23 | saw death must inevitably ensue. After dressing the unfortunate 1262 2, 3 | over. A terrible combat ensued. ~The shark had seemed to 1263 1, 11 | india-rubber instruments, and they ensured the safety of the Nautilus 1264 2, 19 | seven months ago: Whoever enters the Nautilus, must never 1265 1, 15 | the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist! Why could I not 1266 2, 13 | Besides, Captain," I added, enthusiastically, "why should we not find 1267 1, 2 | quarto, in two volumes, entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine 1268 1, 12 | weighs 394 tons. The second envelope, the keel, twenty inches 1269 2, 14 | which a hunter would have envied. We were two hours getting 1270 2, 19 | looking at it, seemed to envy the spirit of the tempest. 1271 1, 4 | recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be 1272 2, 8 | will tell you a curious episode in this history. Sir, listen 1273 1, 22 | still numerous, but more equalised, and marked on the chart 1274 1, 4 | at 320 feet this pressure equals that of 10 atmospheres, 1275 2, 13 | regions, which begin at the equinoctial season. On the 14th of March 1276 1, 21 | many months would pass ere she could leave her bed 1277 2, 14 | Ross found two craters, the Erebus and Terror, in full activity, 1278 2, 20 | also are heaped up those erratic blocks which are carried 1279 1, 15 | umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band of blue, sheltered 1280 2, 22 | from which no vessel ever escapes. From every point of the 1281 2, 20 | being entrusted with the escort of a cargo of corn coming 1282 1, 13 | whole hours an aquatic army escorted the Nautilus. During their 1283 2, 8 | convoy which France was escorting with a fleet of twenty-three 1284 2, 6 | these lines from Virgil: ~"Est Carpathio Neptuni gurgite 1285 2, 20 | the squadron of Admiral Estaing. In 1781, on the 5th of 1286 2, 10 | whose produce is so much esteemed. Naturally enough, the Canadian 1287 1, 20 | and furnish, at least, estimable food. We were very satisfied 1288 1, 1 | themselves justified in estimating the minimum length of the 1289 1, 23 | undertake to seal our dead for eternity." And, burying his face 1290 2, 4 | very dangerous during the Etesian winds and in the rainy season. 1291 2, 10 | walls. I recognised some euphorbias, with the caustic sugar 1292 1, 18 | a system of denials and evasions, refused to take them to 1293 2, 8 | treasures, like a man on the eve of an eternal exile, who 1294 2, 10 | by degrees, and the hive eventually yielded several pounds of 1295 2, 20 | attentively, I could recognise the ever-thickening form of a vessel bare of 1296 1, 8 | coolness of blood; energy--evinced by the rapid contraction 1297 1, 3 | principle, zealous from habit, evincing little disturbance at the 1298 2, 10 | accordingly, after a few evolutions of the Nautilus, I saw the 1299 2, 11 | that the secret of his life exacted from him our lasting imprisonment 1300 1, 19 | agreeably, without even exacting from me a promise to return 1301 1, 14 | them with more scrupulous exactitude and minute detail. ~11th 1302 2, 12 | long." ~"That seems to me exaggeration. These creatures are generally 1303 1, 21 | impunity. ~Meanwhile, the exasperated Papuans had beaten a retreat 1304 2, 10 | nature of this enormous excavation was confirmed on all sides, 1305 1, 12 | order to see, the light must exceed the darkness, and in the 1306 2, 23 | That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it out?" 1307 2, 7 | Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the 1308 1, 10 | is a clever fellow, who excels in dressing these various 1309 2, 19 | birds disappeared with the exception of the petrels, those friends 1310 1, 21 | right-handed, with rare exceptions; and, when by chance their 1311 1, 20 | I think that, in the excess of his joy, the Canadian, 1312 1, 19 | situation of the vessel, and exchanging words in their incomprehensible 1313 1, 1 | fact, which resulted in exciting once more the torrent of 1314 2, 21 | and I heard the Captain exclaim: ~"Strike, mad vessel! Shower 1315 1, 1 | rushed on to the bridge, exclaiming, "We are sinking! we are 1316 1, 16 | sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped. This otter 1317 1, 13 | vessel, formed a slight excrescence. Fore and aft rose two cages 1318 1, 23 | certain places by slight excrescences encrusted with limy deposits, 1319 1, 3 | fifteen to twenty. May I be excused for saying that I was forty 1320 1, 6 | captain. ~These orders were executed, and the frigate moved rapidly 1321 2, 8 | to put his project into execution, and he could not help showing 1322 1, 10 | its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear 1323 1, 18 | remarkable, over which France exercises sway. These are coral islands, 1324 2, 16 | of nature, but on our own exertions. We must stop this solidification. 1325 1, 6 | its showing any signs of exhaustion. ~However, it must be said 1326 2, 16 | My brave Conseil, though exhibiting the same symptoms and suffering 1327 1, 4 | of which had been in the Exhibition of 1867. This precious weapon 1328 1, 10 | collections of Europe, and in the exhibitions of paintings. ~Some admirable 1329 2, 8 | on the eve of an eternal exile, who was leaving never to 1330 2, 9 | there a whole colony of exiles who, weary of the miseries 1331 2, 12 | crew." ~"Certainly, under existing conditions, ten men, at 1332 2, 14 | had lost nothing of their expansive powers, though, having climbed 1333 2, 21 | in that painful state of expectation preceding a dreadful report. 1334 2, 15 | blocked. But, contrary to my expectations, the Nautilus took a decided 1335 1, 10 | Captain Nemo must have expended millions in the acquirement 1336 1, 15 | covered my head, thereby expending more air in vain words than 1337 2, 12 | knowing also how much each man expends at a breath, and comparing 1338 1, 20 | want. We are here to make experiments--make them." ~"It won't take 1339 1, 14 | the inspirator and the expirator, open." ~"Perfectly, Captain 1340 1, 5 | would (morally speaking) expire; after that time, Commander 1341 1, 10 | shall have much pleasure in explaining their use to you. But first 1342 2, 1 | freely. To my mind, this explains but one side of Captain 1343 2, 5 | creature the most energetic expletives in the English tongue. For 1344 2, 10 | after the Canadian's last exploit we had regained the inner 1345 1, 20 | marked by Ned and Conseil's exploits. ~Indeed, the two friends, 1346 2, 23 | philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea! If his destiny 1347 2, 22 | of Nova Zembla? Should we explore those unknown seas, the 1348 2, 8 | allow me to tell you that in exploring Vigo Bay you have only been 1349 2, 2 | the fishermen. The annual exportation has not yet begun. Never 1350 2, 3 | numerous fishing boats of the exporters, and these are the waters 1351 2, 14 | observing their soft and expressive looks, which cannot be surpassed 1352 1, 15 | without seam, and constructed expressly to resist considerable pressure. 1353 2, 19 | and indicated an extreme extension of the vapours. The mixture 1354 1, 1 | the circumstance became extensively circulated. ~The 13th of 1355 1, 4 | between the interior and exterior pressure, which thus neutralise 1356 2, 12 | they would be right in exterminating them." ~The Canadian turned 1357 2, 23 | contemplation of so many wonders extinguish for ever the spirit of vengeance! 1358 1, 14 | drops of a fermented liquor, extracted by the Kamschatcha method 1359 2, 14 | assembly, sober in gesture, but extravagant in clamour. Albatrosses 1360 2, 1 | with eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat being 1361 2, 18 | limit of truth to get to fable or legend. Nevertheless, 1362 1, 1 | classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the 1363 2, 22 | roamed at will. Like the fabulous Gordon Pym, at every moment 1364 2, 15 | angle, every ridge, every facet was thrown a different light, 1365 2, 13 | upon a thousand crystal facets. Others shaded with vivid 1366 1, 18 | la Recherche, and exactly facing the little harbour of Vanou, 1367 1, 8 | of which this is an exact facsimile: ~MOBILIS IN MOBILI N ~The 1368 1, 11 | nor moon, but only that factitious light that I take with me 1369 2, 3 | opened wide, like a pair of factory shears, and it would have 1370 2, 16 | purple, my lips blue, my faculties suspended. I neither saw 1371 1, 2 | barrel. The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses 1372 1, 8 | the horizon at once. ~This faculty--(I verified it later)--gave 1373 1, 15 | his dreams of fresh meat fade away. "And you, M. Aronnax, 1374 2, 6 | attempt must succeed; if it fails, we shall never find another, 1375 2, 9 | fancy hurried me? ~I would fain have asked him; not being 1376 1, 7 | that my chest collapsed--I fainted. ~It is certain that I soon 1377 1, 8 | able to discern even the faintest glimmer. ~Meanwhile, Ned 1378 1, 18 | inscription--"Bazin m'a fait," the mark of the foundry 1379 2, 17 | evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits 1380 2, 17 | the last heights of the Falklands had disappeared from the 1381 1, 21 | took courage, and sought to familiarise themselves with it. Now 1382 1, 4 | a whaler by profession, familiarised with all the great marine 1383 1, 21 | themselves with it. Now this familiarity was precisely what it was 1384 2, 14 | without fear, and pressing familiarly close by our feet. There 1385 1, 3 | do with the monster-- the famous narwhal. We are going to 1386 1, 8 | pressed upon me, too many fancies kept my eyes half open. 1387 2, 4 | century?" ~"Willingly." ~"This fanciful writer pretends that its 1388 2, 9 | this conflagration? Had he fanned this flame? Was I to meet 1389 2, 9 | Some petrified shrubs ran fantastically here and there. Fishes got 1390 2, 5 | or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters 1391 2, 11 | precious reserve prepared by far-seeing Nature for the moment when 1392 2, 6 | But how the insurgents had fared since that time I was absolutely 1393 2, 16 | closing in. The beds of water farthest from the trench, that were 1394 2, 21 | look seemed to attract, and fascinate, and draw it onward more 1395 2, 11 | steel plates tremble at the fastenings of the bolts; its bars bent, 1396 2, 14 | did not appear. It was a fatality. Observations were still 1397 1, 12 | I was sailing only one fathom below the surface of the 1398 1, 3 | had just returned from a fatiguing journey, weary and longing 1399 1, 3 | old? ~But Conseil had one fault: he was ceremonious to a 1400 2, 4 | historians do not speak favourably of it, and Strabo says it 1401 1, 20 | sufficient. Fate, however, favoured us. Just as we were pushing 1402 1, 10 | amongst the books which are my favourite study the work which you 1403 1, 16 | carmine, green, olive, fawn, and brown. ~"Curious anomaly, 1404 1, 10 | Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the immense prairies 1405 1, 15 | colours. It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication 1406 2, 18 | brandishing the victim like a feather. But just as Captain Nemo 1407 1, 8 | ever met. One particular feature was his eyes, rather far 1408 1, 15 | rays of the sun, though feebly; to their intense brilliancy 1409 2, 15 | Our looks expressed our feelings better than words. At this 1410 1, 10 | is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. 1411 2, 14 | and close skin and webbed feet--they swim admirably. In 1412 1, 21 | My boy," said I, "when I feigned to believe that his Nautilus 1413 2, 11 | did not wish the worthy fellows to lose their time and trouble, 1414 2, 8 | and from the conquered of Ferdinand Cortez. ~"Did you know, 1415 1, 20 | leguminous plants, and ferns. ~But, without noticing 1416 2, 12 | We have no pity for these ferocious creatures. They are nothing 1417 2, 16 | a punishment that the ferocity of the savages even would 1418 1, 10 | sought them greedily, and ferreted them out indefatigably, 1419 2, 17 | English fashion. Over this fertile and luxuriant ground the 1420 1, 16 | its coat would certainly fetch L80. I admired this curious 1421 1, 18 | Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are 1422 1, 11 | powerful enough. Bunsen's are fewer in number, but strong and 1423 1, 20 | covered a white but rather fibrous pulp. Others, the greater 1424 2, 1 | Captain. Still the same fierce, implacable defiance towards 1425 1, 15 | the rays of the sun and fiery pelagiae, which, in the 1426 2, 13 | southerly course, following the fiftieth meridian with considerable 1427 2, 13 | Nautilus, following the fifty-fifth meridian, cut the Antarctic 1428 2, 13 | pole, without leaving the fifty-second meridian. From 67° 30' to 1429 1, 13 | million six hundred and fifty-seven square miles, equal to twelve 1430 1, 20 | rocked. They were mimosas, figs, hibisci, and palm trees, 1431 1, 16 | surface of the ocean. Not a filament, not a ribbon, however thin 1432 2, 16 | acid with which the air was filled--ah! if we had only the chemical 1433 1, 10 | Professor, is nothing else than fillet of turtle. Here are also 1434 1, 8 | eat here? Tortoise liver, filleted shark, and beef steaks from 1435 2, 21 | some streaks of light were filtering through the liquid beds. 1436 2, 14 | not form wings; and the fin-back, of a yellowish brown, the 1437 1, 19 | but in Torres Straits one finds still a difference of a 1438 1, 19 | tasting like dorys; and flying fire-fish like submarine swallows, 1439 2, 11 | from the beginning, in the firmest manner, that the secret 1440 2, 15 | the lenticular plates of a first-class lighthouse. ~"How beautiful! 1441 2, 14 | uncommon for them to break the fishing-boats to pieces." ~"They are quite 1442 2, 14 | would be of great service as fishing-dogs. The greater part of them 1443 2, 5 | which stretched out from the fissures of the rock. ~At a quarter-past 1444 1, 22 | his stiff body, clenched fists, and head shrunk between 1445 1, 12 | L67,500., and L80,000 more for fitting it up, and about L200,000, 1446 2, 1 | by Mr. Darwin and Captain Fitzroy. The Nautilus skirted the 1447 1, 17 | were still lying. I counted five--four men, one of whom was 1448 1, 21 | bottom of the coral reef. ~At five-and-twenty minutes to three, Captain 1449 1, 2 | feet. Increase its size fivefold or tenfold, give it strength 1450 1, 21 | and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical bearings 1451 1, 17 | brought up, were several flabellariae and graceful polypi, that 1452 2, 9 | conflagration? Had he fanned this flame? Was I to meet in these 1453 1, 14 | eastern horizon. The sea flamed under its glance like a 1454 2, 5 | said Ned Land, his eyes flaming. ~"Only," continued the 1455 2, 18 | monsters that crept on the flanks of the Nautilus. The crew 1456 2, 3 | and some samphire reeds flapped before it. ~We were silent. 1457 2, 13 | scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels 1458 2, 15 | was at once changed into flashes of lightning. The fire from 1459 2, 13 | of the Captain's projects flashing upon my mind. I understood; 1460 1, 20 | of stuffing their crops, flavours their flesh and renders 1461 1, 16 | and I could even see the fleecy foam which their broken 1462 2, 19 | elements! for, instead of fleeing to the depths of the sea, 1463 2, 1 | the evening, before that fleeting twilight which binds night 1464 1, 3 | servant, a true, devoted Flemish boy, who had accompanied 1465 2, 14 | teeth in the shape of a fleur-de-lis. Amongst them glided sea-elephants, 1466 1, 23 | touched them slightly, like flights of birds. But if my hand 1467 2, 10 | floating still?" ~"It always floats." ~"But I do not understand." ~" 1468 2, 21 | looking at me. ~A whole flood of light burst upon my mind. 1469 1, 12 | opposite the centre of flotation, planes that move in every 1470 2, 4 | this display of zoophytes flourish beneath the level of the 1471 2, 12 | open mouth let the water flow in and out, murmuring like 1472 1, 20 | carried on by the waves that flowed to shore, reached the island 1473 1, 10 | his words clear, and his fluency of speech remarkable. Yet, 1474 1, 8 | language--well enough to read it fluently, but not to speak it correctly. 1475 2, 21 | the shell until they were flush with the deck. The long 1476 2, 1 | their spiral-shaped and fluted shells, which Cuvier justly 1477 2, 21 | man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her main mast." ~For 1478 2, 11 | and, after emerging like a flying-fish, fell, making the waves 1479 2, 22 | reckoning this morning in the fog-- twenty miles to the east." ~" 1480 2, 2 | oyster-shell or buried in the folds of the creature. On the 1481 2, 21 | understand that we are honest folks." ~Ned Land took his handkerchief 1482 1, 18 | which Protestants are so fond. I had not seen Captain 1483 2, 21 | strength, upon the deck. ~"Fool!" exclaimed the Captain, " 1484 1, 19 | wondered if Captain Nemo, foolishly imprudent, would steer his 1485 1, 7 | you, I was able to find a footing almost directly upon a floating 1486 2, 15 | perfectly motionless. I heard footsteps, and a confusion of voices; 1487 1, 5 | very thing we are looking for-- on our weather beam!" ~ 1488 2, 20 | of shells, bristling with foraminiferae, was encrusted with a strong 1489 2, 1 | Bengal, we met repeatedly a forbidding spectacle, dead bodies floating 1490 2, 6 | good-will. Common prudence forbids him to set us at liberty. 1491 2, 8 | Chateau-Renaud, in spite of inferior forces, fought bravely. But, seeing 1492 1, 8 | VIII~MOBILIS IN MOBILI~This forcible abduction, so roughly carried 1493 1, 14 | air from above by means of forcing pumps and regulators." ~" 1494 1, 20 | towards the west: then, fording some torrents, he gained 1495 2, 14 | cousins, forms a perfect forearm. I should say that, in the 1496 1, 22 | going down for some days, foreboded a coming storm. I went up 1497 1, 21 | of good race, large high foreheads, large, but not broad and 1498 2, 21 | lantern hanging from the large foremast. An indistinct vibration 1499 1, 18 | terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime 1500 2, 13 | feet, as Captain Nemo had foreseen, we were floating beneath 1501 2, 6 | facts seemed to confirm my foresight, to the Canadian's great 1502 1, 11 | the weight of the air and foretells the changes of the weather; 1503 2, 6 | Captain Nemo will never forgive us." ~"All that is true,"