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2004 2, 14 | of which many birds were issuing. Captain Nemo had some hundreds 2005 1, 11 | twenty-four hours, like the Italian clocks, because for me there 2006 2, 20 | thus? Was it his proxim ity to European shores? Had 2007 2, 9 | and over which, instead of ivy, sea-weed and fucus threw 2008 1, 18 | reprisals to fear, they led M. Jacquireot to the scene of the wreck. ~ 2009 2, 16 | was necessary to fill some jars with caustic potash, and 2010 1, 17 | reading a charming book by Jean Mace, The Slaves of the 2011 1, 22 | of veritable globules of jelly, provided with a threadlike 2012 1, 2 | the Atlantic cable, that jesters pretended that this slender 2013 2, 4 | that in the year 615 before Jesus Christ, Necos undertook 2014 2, 9 | knees trees sprang, like a jet under heavy pressure, and 2015 2, 8 | cascades of piastres and jewels. The sand was heaped up 2016 2, 4 | promontory which a narrow isthmus joins to the mainland, a kind 2017 2, 12 | houses," said Conseil. ~"Yes, joker," said Ned Land. "And one 2018 1, 7 | voice! The time is past for Jonahs to take refuge in whales' 2019 1, 14 | That day I commenced the journal of these adventures which 2020 2, 7 | have time to finish our journey-- that is, if Ned Land does 2021 1, 20 | effects of intemperance!" ~"By Jove!" exclaimed the Canadian, " 2022 2, 6 | Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, "and the Mediterranean?" ~" 2023 2, 20 | the squadron of Villaret Joyeuse, at Brest, being entrusted 2024 1, 20 | dead wood that crackled joyously. During this time, Conseil 2025 2, 5 | penetrated into the Straits of Jubal, which leads to the Gulf 2026 1, 10 | had one-- were the sole judges to whom he was answerable. ~ 2027 1, 2 | little competent to form a judgment, was abandoned. And, indeed, 2028 1, 20 | The bird, drunk with the juice, was quite powerless. It 2029 1, 20 | prepare yourself for a juicy thing. If you do not come 2030 2, 14 | ashore. Conseil was going to jump on to the land, when I held 2031 2, 7 | conditions would be as bad as jumping from a train going at full 2032 2, 14 | place, they took little jumps, made by the contraction 2033 2, 4 | dared not undertake, this junction between the two seas, which 2034 2, 2 | the tiger in the Indian jungles, what would you say? ~"Ha! 2035 2, 21 | then passing the meridian. Jupiter was rising in the east. 2036 2, 21 | accomplices in a retaliation the justice of which we cannot judge." ~" 2037 2, 11 | surface. And time will one day justify Maury's other opinion, that 2038 2, 10 | heliotropes, quite incapable of justifying their name, sadly drooped 2039 1, 22 | of the watch-light that jutted out from the front of the 2040 1, 15 | coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, 2041 1, 14 | liquor, extracted by the Kamschatcha method from a seaweed known 2042 1, 20 | were a species of those "kangaroo rabbits" that live habitually 2043 1, 21 | friend Ned is busy making a kangaroo-pie which will be a marvel." ~ 2044 1, 18 | that were crowned by Mount Kapogo, 476 feet high. The Nautilus, 2045 2, 22 | the White Sea, the Sea of Kara, the Gulf of Obi, the Archipelago 2046 2, 11 | numerous wrecks, remains of keels, or ships' bottoms, side-planks 2047 2, 17 | that filled us with this keen enjoyment. ~"Ah!" said Conseil, " 2048 2, 10 | with white breasts, and kestrels, and down the slopes scampered, 2049 2, 22 | down by means of a false key, with which Ned Land had 2050 1, 7 | served us for a refuge. I kicked it. It was evidently a hard, 2051 1, 7 | confound it!" cried Ned Land, kicking the resounding plate. "Open, 2052 2, 4 | coasted even the Island of Kiltan, a land originally coraline, 2053 1, 10 | flash of anger and disdain kindled in the eyes of the Unknown, 2054 2, 14 | sir, you would have the kindness to take wider steps, you 2055 1, 10 | herself in it by her three kingdoms--mineral, vegetable, and 2056 1, 14 | braces, like a soldier's knapsack. Its upper part forms a 2057 2, 21 | arms towards them, and, kneeling down, burst into deep sobs. ~ 2058 2, 21 | belongs to?" ~The Canadian knitted his eyebrows, dropped his 2059 1, 23 | changed into a block of stony knobs. ~Chance had thrown me just 2060 1, 21 | one there. I ventured to knock at the door that opened 2061 2, 6 | when?" ~"Where I do not know--when I cannot say; or, rather, 2062 1, 18 | Dumont d'Urville had made known-- works from which the following 2063 2, 4 | on the west coast, and Komfidah, on the east coast, with 2064 1, 1 | regions, to the immense kraken, whose tentacles could entangle 2065 1, 1 | sea round the Aleutian, Kulammak, and Umgullich islands, 2066 1, 13 | currents was rolling, the Kuro-Scivo of the Japanese, the Black 2067 1, 12 | Aronnax, an iron vessel costs L145 per ton. Now the Nautilus 2068 1, 23 | productions. Coral is sold for L20 per ounce; and in this place 2069 2, 3 | I estimated its value at L500,000 at least. ~After ten minutes 2070 1, 12 | 1,500 It came therefore to L67,500., and L80,000 more for fitting 2071 1, 16 | coat would certainly fetch L80. I admired this curious 2072 1, 12 | therefore to L67,500., and L80,000 more for fitting it up, 2073 1, 10 | rivets, were classed and labelled the most precious productions 2074 2, 21 | distinctly, and the projectiles, labouring through the ambient water, 2075 2, 19 | future time, the result of my labours. But it is otherwise with 2076 1, 13 | distinguished the green labre; the banded mullet, marked 2077 2, 4 | miles an hour, slid into the labyrinth of canals which separate 2078 2, 4 | principal islands of the Laccadive Archipelago, situated between 2079 2, 4 | separate the Maldives from the Laccadives. It coasted even the Island 2080 1, 17 | infinite variety. We had no lack of excellent food, and the 2081 2, 1 | first sight the ocean seemed lactified. Was it the effect of the 2082 2, 18 | sailors, posted on the top ladderstep, unscrewed the bolts of 2083 2, 2 | of dew solidified; to the ladies, it is a jewel of an oblong 2084 2, 4 | Sea extended to the Salt Lakes. Now, whether this passage 2085 2, 14 | fin, which, as with the lamantin, their cousins, forms a 2086 1, 13 | Japanese salamanders, spider lampreys, serpents six feet long, 2087 1, 14 | by Furcy, and in Italy by Landi, which are furnished with 2088 1, 18 | and his second, Captain de Langle, were sent by Louis XVI, 2089 1, 8 | it--as well as the German language--well enough to read it fluently, 2090 1, 16 | the sea, lit by our four lanterns, was illuminated for a circle 2091 2, 14 | of day, whose last rays lapped the horizon of the sea, 2092 2, 16 | enfeebled. However, after a lapse of twelve hours, we had 2093 2, 5 | day, 11th February, the larder of the Nautilus was enriched 2094 2, 1 | acceptable water-game. Amongst large-winged birds, carried a long distance 2095 2, 18 | platform, two other arms, lashing the air, came down on the 2096 1, 6 | overthrowing men, and breaking the lashings of the spars. A fearful 2097 2, 11 | life exacted from him our lasting imprisonment on board the 2098 1, 5 | run a fair chance of being laughed at for our pains." ~"That' 2099 1, 2 | give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh 2100 2, 6 | unfastening the pinnace and launching it upon the waves. For one 2101 2, 4 | yards only there is a solid layer of rock." ~"Did you discover 2102 2, 14 | ruffs' nests, a sort of laying-ground, out of which many birds 2103 1, 8 | first of these pirates who lays a hand on me " ~"Do not 2104 1, 18 | Island Ducie to that of Lazareff. This group covers an area 2105 2, 14 | the night. It was a whole league from the coast, above which 2106 1, 7 | master would be so good as to lean on my shoulder, master would 2107 1, 17 | of the Stomach, and I was learning some valuable lessons from 2108 1, 10 | divans, covered with brown leather, which were curved, to afford 2109 2, 6 | carrying at his belt a leathern purse. It was not a body 2110 2, 16 | a mathematical professor lecturing to his pupils.) "The first 2111 1, 21 | made a savoury pigeon's leg fall from Conseil's hand, 2112 2, 9 | disappearance amongst the legendary tales. I had it there now 2113 1, 18 | Bayonnaise, commanded by Legoarant de Tromelin, to Vanikoro, 2114 1, 20 | verdant vault grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns. ~But, 2115 2, 14 | animals I could examine them leisurely, for they did not move. 2116 1, 2 | proportionate to its size, lengthen its destructive weapons, 2117 2, 13 | both above and beneath into lengthening slopes; mile after mile 2118 1, 6 | stopped at two cables' lengths from the animal, and following 2119 1, 20 | Canadian. ~And, provided with a lentil, he lighted a fire of dead 2120 2, 17 | between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. This 2121 1, 16 | and brought on internal lesions, so fatal to divers. Very 2122 2, 22 | circumference of which was lessening by degrees, and the boat, 2123 2, 17 | ocean forms, as far as the Lesser Antilles, a cliff to three 2124 2, 8 | proposed by this historical lesson. ~"I will continue. This 2125 1, 6 | its day's work, it slept, letting itself float with the undulation 2126 1, 17 | the bottom of the sea were levelled, its mean depth would be 2127 1, 4 | good women believe in the leviathan--by faith, not by reason. 2128 1, 14 | pellet of lead; they are real Leyden bottles, into which the 2129 2, 22 | Obi, the Archipelago of Liarrov, and the unknown coast of 2130 2, 4 | islands which bound the Libyan coast! But where these shrubs 2131 2, 14 | me much restricted. Some lichens lay upon the black rocks; 2132 2, 6 | wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must 2133 1, 18 | and those of two of his lieutenants, besides several of his 2134 2, 9 | live again this ancient life--he who wanted no modern 2135 2, 14 | escape. But the fog did not lift, and at eleven the sun had 2136 2, 5 | back of the Nautilus. Four light-ports with lenticular glasses, 2137 2, 14 | there. ~"The weather is lightening a little," said he. "I have 2138 1, 8 | devoured the food, and I did likewise. I was, besides, reassured 2139 1, 21 | dragging these beautiful limpid waters, under which I saw 2140 2, 22 | disappearance from the Abraham Lincoln--the submarine hunt, the 2141 2, 8 | a great coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, 2142 1, 23 | enveloped in a tissue of white linen, was lowered into the damp 2143 2, 6 | I sought the connecting link between the apparition of 2144 1, 4 | poem, and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing 2145 2, 16 | forty miles an hour. It literally tore through the water. 2146 1, 10 | on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; 2147 1, 10 | power disappears. Ah! sir, live--live in the bosom of the 2148 2, 14 | of a yellowish brown, the liveliest of all the cetacea. This 2149 1, 10 | are also some dolphins' livers, which you take to be ragout 2150 2, 18 | passed successively from livid grey to reddish brown. What 2151 1, 16 | rod of iron. The fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular 2152 2, 3 | in the shape of a sugar loaf, whilst a rope fastened 2153 2, 2 | pearl which hangs from the lobe of the Indian Peninsula. ~ 2154 2, 12 | the equator. Whales are localised, according to their kinds, 2155 1, 3 | Not an instant to lose; lock in my trunk all travelling 2156 1, 1 | its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with 2157 2, 13 | away by its own impetus, it lodged on the ice-field, crushing 2158 1, 3 | country, my friends, my little lodging by the Jardin des Plantes, 2159 1, 1 | apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects 2160 1, 19 | but I will eat tiger-- loin of tiger--if there is no 2161 2, 14 | over at the expense of my loins. Conseil, more prudent or 2162 2, 8 | the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry 2163 1, 10 | desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring 2164 2, 22 | giddiness which arises from long-continued whirling round. ~We were 2165 1, 12 | not built quite like your long-voyage steamers, but its lines 2166 2, 1 | belonging to the family of the long-wings. ~As to the fish, they always 2167 1, 13 | middle of the platform the longboat, half buried in the hull 2168 2, 9 | stretched the land he so longed for. ~At noon the sun showed 2169 1, 7 | sustained. But it is a bad look-out for us-- she no longer answers 2170 1, 15 | pointed to an obscure mass, looming in the shadow, at a short 2171 2, 18 | But hardly were the screws loosed, when the panel rose with 2172 2, 22 | closed. The Canadian began to loosen the bolts which still held 2173 1, 20 | problem, whilst brilliant red lories passed like a piece of bunting 2174 1, 14 | worded: ~"Nautron respoc lorni virch." ~What it meant I 2175 2, 20 | the Gulf Stream widens. It loses some of its speed and some 2176 2, 8 | to pick up what man has lost--and not only in Vigo Bay, 2177 1, 18 | hands of some savages of Louisiade and New Caledonia. Dumont 2178 2, 12 | those latitudes gave us some lovely autumnal days. It was the 2179 1, 10 | whiffs with the delight of a lover of smoking who has not smoked 2180 1, 18 | to credit the reports of low-class journals, decided to follow 2181 2, 16 | in an oblique position, lowering the stern, and raising the 2182 2, 19 | torrent of rain fell, that lulled neither sea nor wind. The 2183 1, 7 | circumstance. During some lulls of the wind and sea, I fancied 2184 2, 1 | Was it the effect of the lunar rays? No; for the moon, 2185 1, 1 | passengers were assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight 2186 1, 23 | and pendants disposed like lustres, that were tipped with points 2187 1, 23 | inextricable plots called "macciota," and on which I noticed 2188 1, 17 | a charming book by Jean Mace, The Slaves of the Stomach, 2189 1, 14 | came to a cell near the machinery-room, in which we put on our 2190 2, 12 | could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes 2191 2, 22 | was the inspiration of a madman; fortunately I resisted 2192 1, 21 | attentively. He was, perhaps, a "mado" of high rank, for he was 2193 2, 8 | rights. They complained at Madrid, and obtained the consent 2194 2, 23 | escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom-- how Ned Land, Conseil, 2195 2, 4 | time the richest commercial magazine on the coast. ~I certainly 2196 2, 21 | up her decks, as if the magazines had caught fire. Then the 2197 1, 19 | Nautilus seemed to slide like magic off these rocks. It did 2198 1, 11 | of magnesium, sulphate of magnesia, sulphate and carbonate 2199 2, 18 | vessels, but a certain Olaus Magnus speaks of an octopus a mile 2200 2, 4 | along the Arabian coast of Mahrah and Hadramaut, for a distance 2201 1, 1 | the Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing 2202 2, 21 | last of all, the top of her mainmast. Then the dark mass disappeared, 2203 2, 9 | medium were echoed with majestic grandeur. At this moment 2204 1, 21 | swept the waters slowly and majestically. Her speed increased gradually, 2205 1, 5 | shared the emotion of the majority of the crew, when some capricious 2206 1, 13 | crosses the Straits of Malacca along the coast of Asia, 2207 1, 10 | of sea-cucumber, which a Malay would declare to be unrivalled 2208 1, 20 | of seeds, which bears in Malaya the name of "rima." ~Ned 2209 2, 4 | canals which separate the Maldives from the Laccadives. It 2210 2, 18 | might that be?" ~"At St. Malo," answered Conseil. ~"In 2211 1, 4 | with all the great marine mammalia--YOU ought to be the last 2212 1, 20 | what are you saying? You, a man-eater? I should not feel safe 2213 1, 11 | This ladder leads to a man-hole made in the hull of the 2214 1, 7 | Lincoln's boats, we ought to manage so as to wait for them as 2215 1, 11 | and I could not see the management of it, which might have 2216 1, 12 | and that with a view of managing my machines. Also, when 2217 1, 20 | the artocarpus bread, some mangoes, half a dozen pineapples, 2218 1, 18 | the verdant shade of some mangroves I perceived some savages, 2219 1, 7 | aperture, a panel, or a manhole, to use a technical expression; 2220 2, 13 | enterprise, one which only a maniac would have conceived? It 2221 1, 10 | fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her three 2222 2, 1 | unknown servants who return mankind contempt for indifference. 2223 1, 18 | fate of these two sloops, manned two large merchantmen, the 2224 2, 14 | and the poetry of their manners, metamorphosed them, the 2225 2, 20 | as it was on leaving the manufactory. The long serpent, covered 2226 2, 11 | gradation, was to be seen in our manufactured light. The Nautilus remained 2227 1, 18 | Perouse, annotated in the margin in Louis XVI's handwriting. ~" 2228 2, 11 | by him, was covered with marginal notes, often contradicting 2229 2, 8 | terrible points so dreaded by mariners, Cape Horn and the Cape 2230 2, 3 | body floating. By the black marking of the extremity of its 2231 2, 20 | this ship was called the Marseillais. It carried seventy-four 2232 1, 20 | dozen of these interesting marsupians. These animals were small. 2233 1, 17 | I saw, three miles off, Martin's peak in Nouka-Hiva, the 2234 1, 6 | me Ned Land grappling the martingale in one hand, brandishing 2235 2, 18 | April 16th, we sighted Martinique and Guadaloupe from a distance 2236 1, 11 | miles an hour." ~"It is marvelous! And I see, Captain, you 2237 2, 4 | Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, so as to gain the Cape 2238 2, 13 | their rage for destruction, massacred both old and young; thus, 2239 1, 6 | gradations. ~"It is only a massing of phosphoric particles," 2240 1, 2 | the `rams' of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would 2241 1, 6 | were already perched on the mast-heads. At eight o'clock the fog 2242 1, 13 | from it. This ship is a masterpiece of modern industry, and 2243 2, 8 | wonders of Nature, these masterpieces of art, amongst which for 2244 2, 16 | person had the air of a mathematical professor lecturing to his 2245 2, 14 | But this statement is not mathematically correct, because the equinox 2246 2, 2 | is to lay the oysters on mats of the seaweed which covers 2247 2, 16 | diminished at the base. But that mattered little, so long as the lower 2248 2, 23 | believed? I do not know. And it matters little, after all. What 2249 1, 10 | recognised, I wished to weigh maturely what part to act towards 2250 1, 20 | attained a sufficient degree of maturity; and their thick skin covered 2251 2, 4 | and from Bourbon to the Mauritius, furrowing this narrow passage, 2252 1, 19 | the Island Sound and Canal Mauvais. ~I wondered if Captain 2253 2, 9 | the midst of this stony maze furrowing the bottom of 2254 2, 11 | now visiting, a perfect meadow, a close carpet of seaweed, 2255 2, 14 | shore. These constituted the meagre flora of this region. The 2256 1, 22 | We sat down to table. The meal was eaten in silence. ~Just 2257 1, 5 | Giving but few minutes to my meals, but a few hours to sleep, 2258 | meantime 2259 1, 12 | of the Nautilus. Its area measures 6,032 feet; and its contents 2260 1, 18 | from a whaler that some medals and a cross of St. Louis 2261 2, 21 | still hesitated? I wished to mediate once more. But I had scarcely 2262 1, 20 | cockatoos, who seemed to meditate upon some philosophical 2263 2, 9 | woods and rocks in this medium--their under parts dark and 2264 1, 10 | they were written; and this medley proved that the Captain 2265 1, 21 | with midas-ears, harps, melames, and particularly the most 2266 2, 11 | me. Sometimes I heard the melancholy tones of his organ; but 2267 2, 3 | recognised the terrible melanopteron of the Indian Seas, of the 2268 1, 21 | black keys, which gave his melodies an essentially Scotch character. 2269 2, 15 | gleams of twilight were melting into night. The cold was 2270 1, 1(1)| Member of the whale family.~ 2271 2, 3 | with his hand he raised the membrane with its fringed edges, 2272 1, 23 | coloured. I seemed to see the membraneous and cylindrical tubes tremble 2273 2, 1 | library, the compiling of my memoirs, took up all my time, and 2274 1, 4 | dwell the longer on your memory. ~Now, what was Ned Land' 2275 1, 20 | completed this extraordinary menu. The sago pasty, the artocarpus 2276 1, 2 | of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List, 2277 2, 8 | the right of receiving all merchandise coming from the West Indies. 2278 2, 9 | and disappeared with its merchant vessels and its war-galleys. 2279 1, 18 | sloops, manned two large merchantmen, the Recherche and the Esperance, 2280 1, 22 | left her to drift at the mercy of the currents. I supposed 2281 2, 21 | listened, every sense was merged in that of hearing! The 2282 1, 8 | France. ~The second stranger merits a more detailed description. 2283 2, 14 | triton and the female into a mermaid. I made Conseil notice the 2284 2, 7 | Cape Bon and the Straits of Messina the bottom of the sea rose 2285 2, 14 | poetry of their manners, metamorphosed them, the male into a triton 2286 2, 6 | by one, and arranged them methodically in the chest, which he filled 2287 2, 10 | our electric lantern. The mica dust from the shore, rising 2288 2, 7 | and on these waters, says Michelet, that man is renewed in 2289 1, 21 | The drag was filled with midas-ears, harps, melames, and particularly 2290 1, 19 | seas where the tides are middling--a sorry matter for the floating 2291 1, 20 | breeze rocked. They were mimosas, figs, hibisci, and palm 2292 2, 16 | March 26th, I resumed my miner's work in beginning the 2293 2, 10 | geological periods, now mineralised and transformed into coal; 2294 1, 2 | myself in classifying my mineralogical, botanical, and zoological 2295 2, 10 | men follow the trade of miners here, then, Captain?" ~" 2296 2, 21 | would not have your ruins mingle with those of the Avenger!" ~ 2297 1, 18 | instructions of the naval minister to Commander La Perouse, 2298 2, 6 | Grecian Archipelago and Asia Minor we could not touch the bottom 2299 1, 8 | enabled me to examine it minutely. It only contained a table 2300 2, 4 | whether this passage were miraculous or not, the Israelites, 2301 2, 18 | two enormous jaws, and, miraculously saved, the Canadian, rising, 2302 1, 7 | broke over my hand, whose mirror-like surface was spotted with 2303 2, 13 | with greyish tints; huge mirrors, reflecting a few rays of 2304 2, 21 | savant. It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo 2305 1, 21 | slipped away without any mischance, the islanders frightened 2306 1, 5 | sleep--twenty times a day, a misconception or an optical illusion of 2307 1, 21 | of the Pacific, to perish miserably in a railway train! If this 2308 2, 9 | exiles who, weary of the miseries of this earth, had sought 2309 1, 7 | world, and over thrown and misled the imagination of seamen 2310 2, 3 | indistinct owing to the mist on the water. At six o'clock 2311 2, 12 | Canadian-- he could not be mistaken--who signalled a whale on 2312 1, 7 | Daybreak appeared. The morning mists surrounded us, but they 2313 2, 1 | indifference. For him, he was a misunderstood genius who, tired of earth' 2314 2, 19 | and whose waters do not mix with the ocean waters. It 2315 1, 6 | and anger. ~I climbed the mizzen-mast. Some officers were already 2316 2, 21 | She hoisted no flag at her mizzen-peak. The distance prevented 2317 1, 12 | of the ocean five or six mlles below the surface, I make 2318 1, 1 | white whale, the terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, 2319 2, 4 | from the first dawn of day, Mocha came in sight, now a ruined 2320 1, 4 | narrow in the bore, the model of which had been in the 2321 1, 10 | after the finest antique models, stood upon pedestals in 2322 1, 6 | with such velocity, had moderated its pace, and sailed at 2323 2, 4 | smiling; "and in that respect moderns are not more advanced than 2324 1, 23 | was no isolated bush, nor modest brushwood, at the bottom 2325 2, 5 | simple gesture, the pilot modified the course of the Nautilus 2326 1, 2 | problem submitted to me may modify the form of the dilemma. 2327 2, 4 | arrival of provisions to Mohammed-ben-Abdallah, who had revolted against 2328 2, 1 | polypi and curious shells of mollusca. {one sentence stripped 2329 2, 6 | arranging my notes. At that moment--(ought I to attribute it 2330 1, 10 | the shock of his submarine monitor? What cuirass, however thick, 2331 1, 10 | it had a severe, almost a monkish aspect. A small iron bedstead, 2332 2, 8 | forward. Still the same monklike severity of aspect. ~Suddenly 2333 2, 1 | would have seemed long and monotonous; but the daily walks on 2334 2, 12 | country." ~Certainly the monotony on board must seem intolerable 2335 1, 3 | held out his hand to me. ~"Monsieur Pierre Aronnax?" said he. ~" 2336 1, 3 | friend, it has to do with the monster-- the famous narwhal. We 2337 2, 23 | for the steamboat running monthly from Cape North. ~And, among 2338 2, 18 | the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards 2339 1, 1 | 1867, the Moravian, of the Montreal Ocean Company, finding herself 2340 1, 18 | savages had respected the monument to La Perouse. That is the 2341 2, 9 | of this region. ~There, monumental rocks, leaning on their 2342 1, 17 | its tempers and its gentle moods. Yesterday it slept as we 2343 1, 3 | Farragut was ordering the last moorings to be cast loose which held 2344 1, 5 | twelve, the delay would (morally speaking) expire; after 2345 1, 20 | or else one of these fine mornings, master will find only pieces 2346 2, 1 | studded with teeth like a mosaic; and large tiger-sharks 2347 2, 9 | mute ecstasy, leaning on a mossy stone. Was he dreaming of 2348 2, 20 | quietly sheltered from the motions of the sea, and under a 2349 1, 8 | letter engraved on it, with a motto above it, of which this 2350 1, 17 | the volcanoes that overtop Mouna-Rea, which rise 5,000 yards 2351 1, 23 | ground, which formed a slight mound. When this was done, Captain 2352 1, 17 | ranges, and the several mountain-chains that run parallel with the 2353 2, 3 | Guns! What for? Do not mountaineers attack the bear with a dagger 2354 2, 10 | of lava. I thought that a mountainous region was succeeding the 2355 1, 8 | abundance of black hair, thick moustache, a quick penetrating look, 2356 2, 14 | swallow a whole world at a mouthful; and some perfect sea-butterflies, 2357 2, 4 | perhaps cross the Channel of Mozambique, perhaps off the Mascarenhas, 2358 1, 13 | green labre; the banded mullet, marked by a double line 2359 2, 3 | placed it in his hand! This munificent charity from the man of 2360 2, 12 | I do not approve of such murderous pastime. In destroying the 2361 2, 12 | the water flow in and out, murmuring like the waves breaking 2362 1, 19 | coasted the Islands of Murray, and came back to the south-west 2363 2, 4 | quitting this sea we sighted Muscat for an instant, one of the 2364 1, 13 | taking observations not a muscle moved, the instrument could 2365 2, 18 | poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, 2366 2, 18 | masses; a strong smell of musk penetrated the atmosphere. 2367 1, 20 | few minutes we were within musket-shot of the coast. The whole 2368 1, 5 | will not say there was a mutiny on board, but after a reasonable 2369 2, 7 | with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, 2370 2, 14 | sought for old Proteus, the mythological shepherd who watched these 2371 2, 20 | sailors to surrendering; and, nailing its colours to the poop, 2372 1, 18 | Santa Cruz, and put into Namouka, one of the Hapai group. 2373 1, 8 | my first lessons, and to narrate our adventures in Latin, 2374 2, 23 | exaggerated. It is a faithful narrative of this incredible expedition 2375 1, 8 | terms and good accent of the narrator, the German language had 2376 1, 4 | chances of a meeting, watching narrowly the vast surface of the 2377 1, 12 | without missing it, pay the national debt of France." ~I stared 2378 2, 19 | of individuals of divers nationalities? It was one of these insoluble 2379 1, 21 | sometimes thinking of the natives-- but without any dread of 2380 2, 17 | were in the library of the Nautilus--charts evidently due to 2381 1, 14 | conditions. It was thus worded: ~"Nautron respoc lorni virch." ~What 2382 2, 22 | gulf justly called the "Navel of the Ocean," whose power 2383 2, 4 | slight that it was only navigable for a few months in the 2384 1, 19 | this piece of iron will navigate neither on nor under the 2385 2, 4 | Ptolemy II. Strabo saw it navigated: but its decline from the 2386 1, 21 | the travels of the French navigator, his voyages of circumnavigation, 2387 2, 13 | been reached by the boldest navigators--was it not a mad enterprise, 2388 1, 21 | cried Ned Land. ~"Very nearly--they are savages." ~"To 2389 1, 1 | could not have been more neatly done by a punch. It was 2390 1, 10 | comforts, the strictest necessaries only. ~Captain Nemo pointed 2391 2, 3 | apparatus, there was no necessity for it. Before putting my 2392 2, 4 | 615 before Jesus Christ, Necos undertook the works of an 2393 1, 20 | pie." ~"Taste it, friend Ned--taste it as you want. We 2394 1, 19 | that Captain Nemo took all needful precautions to cross them. 2395 1, 20 | from branch to branch, only needing a careful education to speak 2396 2, 13 | sharp points and slender needles rising to a height of 200 2397 2, 2 | alive. However, I am not a negro, and if I were I think a 2398 2, 2 | the Andaman Islands, the negroes never hesitate to attack 2399 1, 18 | be joined later on to the neighboring groups, and a fifth continent 2400 2, 6 | Virgil: ~"Est Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, Caeruleus 2401 1, 6 | were laid along the hammock nettings. The second lieutenant loaded 2402 1, 4 | exterior pressure, which thus neutralise each other, and which allows 2403 2, 10 | waves like the mines of Newcastle. Here, in their diving-dresses, 2404 2, 20 | the sea is not great at Newfoundland--not more than some hundreds 2405 2, 13 | reservoirs were filled with the newly-liberated water, and the Nautilus 2406 1, 10 | amongst which were some newspapers, already of old date. The 2407 2, 6 | said Captain Nemo. "It is Nicholas of Cape Matapan, surnamed 2408 1, 10 | kind of sea-weed, rich in nicotine, with which the sea provides 2409 2, 18 | said that the Bishop of Nidros was building an altar on 2410 2, 8 | Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, 2411 2, 23 | What passed during that night-- how the boat escaped from 2412 2, 5 | of the pelican and other night-birds, and the noise of the waves 2413 1, 8 | beds of the sea. Dreadful nightmares beset me; I saw in these 2414 2, 5 | a species of the Sterna nilotica, peculiar to Egypt; its 2415 2, 6 | subterranean fires. Already, in the nineteenth year of our era, according 2416 2, 14 | reached the South Pole on the ninetieth degree; and I take possession 2417 1, 21 | avoid. Our arms, which were noiseless, could only produce a moderate 2418 2, 5 | waters of the Gulf with its noisy paddles. ~From eight to 2419 1, 18 | seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family 2420 1, 8 | had no success. At last, nonplussed, I tried to remember my 2421 1, 17 | chaluts," like those on the Normandy coasts, great pockets that 2422 2, 19 | the Nautilus resumed its northerly course, after having sighted 2423 2, 22 | The Nautilus was flying northward at the rate of twenty-five 2424 2, 8 | Vigo Bay, situated on the northwest coast of Spain, and which 2425 2, 22 | rubbed off," according to the Norwegian phrase! ~What a situation 2426 2, 19 | He fretted, seized with nostalgia that flight only could cure. ~" 2427 2, 5 | air briskly with its large nostrils (not pierced at the extremity, 2428 2, 7 | of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered 2429 1, 21 | a mat of banana-leaves, notched round the edges, and set 2430 1, 15 | There was a vast difference noticeable between these consummate 2431 2, 16 | neither saw nor heard. All notion of time had gone from my 2432 1, 17 | miles off, Martin's peak in Nouka-Hiva, the largest of the group 2433 1, 16 | water, which upholds and nourishes them. The greater number, 2434 1, 10 | They are wholesome and nourishing. For a long time I have 2435 2, 11 | marine plants find abundant nourishment. The next, the ocean had 2436 2, 13 | a part of the night the novelty of the situation kept us 2437 1, 6 | grey beard--that I can see now--with steady eye and grave 2438 1, 21 | bodies like those of the Nubians. From the lobes of their 2439 1, 20 | drunk the milk and ate the nut with a satisfaction that 2440 1, 20 | beak, brown feet and claws, nut-coloured wings with purple tips, 2441 1, 20 | declared excellent. The nutmeg, with which they are in 2442 1, 20 | that it devoured under the nutmeg-tree, under which I found it. 2443 1, 20 | Yes, sir; drunk with the nutmegs that it devoured under the 2444 1, 3 | a frigate as easily as a nutshell. Here there was matter for 2445 1, 10 | furnished in severe taste. High oaken sideboards, inlaid with 2446 2, 14 | Pole. A few strokes of the oar brought us to the sand, 2447 1, 10 | all the others, a passive obedience. In thus acting, I take 2448 2, 22 | Sea of Kara, the Gulf of Obi, the Archipelago of Liarrov, 2449 2, 8 | commanders of the convoy objected to this decision. They wanted 2450 2, 11 | Captain Nemo's call, an objective was brought into the saloon. 2451 2, 17 | and I am under infinite obligations to you." ~"Which I shall 2452 1, 20 | disposition of whose long feathers obliges them to fly against the 2453 1, 6 | but a very thick sea fog obscured our view, and the best spy 2454 2, 6 | wisely said." ~"Only one observation--just one. The occasion must 2455 2, 14 | doubtless meant to be his observatory. It was a painful ascent 2456 2, 1 | miles, but without ever obtaining the greatest depths of the 2457 1, 4 | no equal in his dangerous occupation. Skill, coolness, audacity, 2458 1, 2 | in May. Meanwhile I was occupying myself in classifying my 2459 2, 6 | That circumstances may occur as well six months hence 2460 1, 17 | without anything in particular occurring, we sighted the Marquesas 2461 2, 11 | propped on the bottom of the oceanic site, and in a few seconds 2462 1, 13 | Atlantic, and the Pacific Oceans. ~The Pacific Ocean extends 2463 2, 4 | caught a glimpse of the octagon minarets of this town, which 2464 1, 20 | the air with a delicious odour. ~Indeed, the dinner was 2465 1, 10 | interest, as, doubtless, OEdiphus regarded the Sphinx. ~After 2466 2, 16 | opened--one might say torn off--and the pure air came in 2467 2, 20 | it posted up that, if the offender was surprised on board, 2468 2, 4 | inhospitable islands, and `which offers nothing good either on its 2469 2, 6 | could not tell; but we were oftener between waters and far from 2470 2, 12 | pounds of that precious oil called spermaceti. The cachalot 2471 2, 14 | the Antarctic seas, and so oily, as I told Conseil, that 2472 2, 18 | down vessels, but a certain Olaus Magnus speaks of an octopus 2473 2, 4 | Restored by order of the Caliph Omar, it was definitely destroyed 2474 1, 10 | in the two continents. I omit the theories without number 2475 2, 23 | more. Not a fact has been omitted, not a detail exaggerated. 2476 1, 8 | syllable clearly, and without omitting one single detail. I announced 2477 2, 14 | myriads of northern clios, one-and-a-quarter inches long, of which a 2478 2, 14 | part of the globe, equal to one-sixth of the known continents." ~" 2479 1, 12 | under these circumstances, one-tenth is out of the water. Now, 2480 | onto 2481 2, 5 | weakened it, for it shot onwards with great rapidity. ~The 2482 1, 15 | which the Americans call "ooze," composed of equal parts 2483 2, 16 | its weight. The panel was opened--one might say torn off-- 2484 1, 13 | saloon, through two oblong openings. The liquid mass appeared 2485 2, 10 | Architect has suspended operations, and how it is that the 2486 2, 11 | Nor had we any means of opposing Captain Nemo's will. Our 2487 1, 9 | The heavy air seemed to oppress my lungs. Although the cell 2488 2, 21 | oppressed, and there is the oppressor! Through him I have lost 2489 1, 5 | day, a misconception or an optical illusion of some sailor 2490 1, 9 | acid by caustic potash? Or--a more convenient, economical, 2491 1, 15 | kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; 2492 2, 7 | the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; 2493 2, 21 | the sea offering to the orbs of night the finest mirror 2494 1, 20 | their verdant vault grew orchids, leguminous plants, and 2495 1, 11 | engineer of a very high order--had arranged his locomotive 2496 1, 3 | moment Commander Farragut was ordering the last moorings to be 2497 1, 4 | of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch 2498 2, 13 | Here the grouping formed an oriental town, with innumerable mosques 2499 2, 2 | tear of the sea; to the Orientals, it is a drop of dew solidified; 2500 2, 9 | that continent denied by Origen and Humbolt, who placed 2501 2, 8 | the Amazon, the Plata, the Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, 2502 2, 13 | of New Shetland and South Orkney. The Captain told me that 2503 2, 18 | body, and, deprived of this ornament, he disappeared under the 2504 2, 3 | consequently larger than that ornamenting the saloon of the Nautilus. 2505 2, 2 | in embroidery for church ornaments." ~"But," said Conseil, "