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2506 2, 8 | myself warmly--sea boots, an otterskin cap, a great coat of byssus, 2507 1, 23 | Coral is sold for L20 per ounce; and in this place the watery 2508 1, 6 | from the hull, and died out--not diving under the water, 2509 2, 5 | coxswain said some words in his outlandish tongue, doubtless warning 2510 1, 23 | effects, following the rough outlines of the natural arches and 2511 2, 14 | place sentinels round the outskirts of their encampment. After 2512 2, 9 | this condition of mind, over-excited by the succession of wonders 2513 2, 19 | to prevent being washed overboard by the monstrous waves. 2514 2, 18 | specimen of cephalopods. I overcame the horror that inspired 2515 2, 16 | carried away by its frightful overcharge, the Nautilus sank like 2516 2, 10 | a complete vaulted arch overhanging us, and our ascent was changed 2517 1, 20 | fermented from some coco-nuts, overjoyed us. I even think that my 2518 1, 13 | its iron plates, slightly overlaying each other, resembled the 2519 1, 22 | was thus that, either by overloading her reservoirs or by descending 2520 1, 13 | and thinking. Then sleep overpowered me, and I stretched myself 2521 1, 6 | condensed a burning heat, whose overpowering brilliancy died out by successive 2522 2, 15 | took a book, which my eyes overran mechanically. A quarter 2523 1, 6 | But night came on, and overshadowed the rough ocean. ~Now I 2524 1, 15 | lantern, when darkness should overtake us in the waters, would 2525 2, 21 | It was a human ant-heap overtaken by the sea. Paralysed, stiffened 2526 1, 6 | torrent from stem to stern, overthrowing men, and breaking the lashings 2527 1, 21 | hands, he, in his turn, was overthrown. ~"I am struck by a thunderbolt," 2528 2, 13 | heard on all sides, great overthrows of icebergs, which altered 2529 1, 17 | and the volcanoes that overtop Mouna-Rea, which rise 5,000 2530 2, 9 | water and here and there overtopped by gigantic pines. It was 2531 1, 11 | compose my ingredients. I owe all to the ocean; it produces 2532 2, 3 | ourselves at last surveying the oyster-banks on which the pearl-oysters 2533 2, 2 | either adhering to the oyster-shell or buried in the folds of 2534 1, 21 | twenty minutes to three p.m., the Nautilus shall float, 2535 2, 1 | steamboat belonged to the P.O. Company, which runs from 2536 1, 10 | away. For a few moments he paced up and down, much agitated. 2537 1, 16 | darkness deepened. At ten paces not an object was visible. 2538 1, 10 | what every prisoner has of pacing his prison. It cannot suffice 2539 1, 2 | Gazette, the Lloyd's List, the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial 2540 2, 13 | no longer either streams, packs, or ice-fields, but an interminable 2541 1, 18 | water, between the reefs of Pacou and Vanou, lay anchors, 2542 1, 21 | managed by skilful, half-naked paddlers, and I watched their advance 2543 2, 19 | pass the horizon struggling painfully. She was trying to lie to 2544 1, 10 | than one of the continental palaces, and I am absolutely astounded 2545 2, 13 | plains broken up, called palchs when they are circular, 2546 1, 15 | in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist! 2547 1, 23 | whose life ebbed slowly. His pallor increased under the electric 2548 1, 20 | mimosas, figs, hibisci, and palm trees, mingled together 2549 1, 20 | feet high, a species of palm-tree. ~At last, at five o'clock 2550 1, 14 | under the name of Rhodomenia palmata. Captain Nemo ate at first 2551 2, 4 | sewn with the cords of the palmtree, saturated with the grease 2552 1, 7 | alone. I heard the poor boy pant; his breathing became short 2553 2, 16 | dislocated my jaws. My lungs panted as they inhaled this burning 2554 2, 7 | Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" 2555 2, 2 | called virgin pearls, or paragons. They are formed alone in 2556 1, 20 | a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements. They even 2557 1, 10 | understand one another. ~"Pardon me, sir," I resumed, "but 2558 2, 11 | There, too, Lieutenant Parker, of the American frigate 2559 1, 21 | proper for the Europeans to parry sharply, not to attack. ~ 2560 1, 10 | to me. "However, you may partake of them without fear. They 2561 2, 8 | at length his fixed lips parted, and he said, "It is for 2562 2, 9 | the floating outline of a Parthenon; there traces of a quay, 2563 2, 20 | consolation related several particulars in the laying of this cable. 2564 1, 2 | which created two distinct parties: on one side, those who 2565 1, 13 | with inclined sides, and partly closed by thick lenticular 2566 1, 4 | occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted. His person 2567 2, 21 | compared with all those passions brooding imperceptibly within 2568 1, 10 | more than all the others, a passive obedience. In thus acting, 2569 2, 12 | approve of such murderous pastime. In destroying the southern 2570 1, 20 | added he, "but a delicate pastry. You have eaten none, master?" ~" 2571 2, 15 | alike. Numerous blackish patches spread on the surface, showing 2572 2, 14 | operation. We followed a narrow pathway running along the summit 2573 1, 19 | friend Ned, we will wait patiently for the tide on the 9th 2574 1, 18 | 1824, his vessel, the St. Patrick, passed close to Tikopia, 2575 2, 21 | scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, 2576 2, 9 | advanced, I heard a kind of pattering above my head. The noise 2577 2, 18 | One of my friends, Captain Paul Bos of Havre, has often 2578 1, 22 | by its fury and reposed peacefully in still water. ~So we progressed, 2579 2, 18 | miles. I saw their tall peaks for an instant. The Canadian, 2580 2, 2 | of Ceylon, noted for its pearl-fisheries. Would you like to visit 2581 2, 2 | said Conseil, "is this pearl-fishery dangerous?" ~"No," I answered, 2582 2, 2 | secretes the pearl is the pearl-oyster. The pearl is nothing but 2583 2, 2 | of sand, around which the pearly matter deposits itself year 2584 1, 23 | midst of the glade, on a pedestal of rocks roughly piled up, 2585 1, 10 | antique models, stood upon pedestals in the corners of this magnificent 2586 1, 6 | then on the poop, eagerly peering through the profound darkness. ~" 2587 1, 15 | rays of the sun and fiery pelagiae, which, in the darkness, 2588 2, 5 | broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds, and 2589 2, 18 | the Nautilus. We rolled pell-mell into the midst of this nest 2590 1, 14 | steel, and weighted with a pellet of lead; they are real Leyden 2591 2, 18 | inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. ~"Perhaps 2592 1, 10 | no man in the world must penetrate--the secret of my whole existence. 2593 1, 4 | pressure, it is because the air penetrates the interior of your body 2594 2, 14 | by our feet. There were penguins, so agile in the water, 2595 2, 9 | microscopic crustacea, and pennatules lit it slightly with their 2596 2, 22 | knew that at the tide the pent-up waters between the islands 2597 2, 16 | hardest stones? Do you not perceive that it would be an agent 2598 2, 7 | traveller by express train perceives of the landscape which flies 2599 1, 14 | guns, according to Fulton, perfected in England by Philip Coles 2600 2, 16 | which the sounding leads had perforated in a thousand places. The 2601 2, 13 | The operation was quickly performed, for the fresh ice was still 2602 1, 11 | thread twenty-three feet, performs about 120 revolutions in 2603 1, 21 | before-- five or six hundred perhaps--some of them, profiting 2604 1, 19 | New Guinea might be very perilous, and I should not have counselled 2605 2, 4 | steam, offered all sorts of perils to the ships of the ancients. 2606 2, 4 | not even the Island of Perim, with which the British 2607 2, 10 | embedded during the geological periods, now mineralised and transformed 2608 2, 13 | earlier we should have had perpetual daylight in these latitudes; 2609 1, 18 | Dumont d'Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to 2610 2, 1 | Conseil. ~That worthy fellow persisted in seeing in the Commander 2611 1, 2 | State whose every act is persistently watched by powerful rivals, 2612 1, 10 | rapidly, whilst the stranger personage was silent, absorbed, and 2613 1, 1 | sea-serpent they came to direct personalities. ~During the first months 2614 1, 2 | arrival in New York several persons did me the honour of consulting 2615 2, 2 | stood large drops of cold perspiration. "Let us reflect," said 2616 1, 5 | taffrail, would cause dreadful perspirations, and these emotions, twenty 2617 2, 11 | think might be obtained by persuasion. This voyage ended, would 2618 2, 5 | animal, possessed with the perverse idea of vengeance of which 2619 2, 6 | of Cape Matapan, surnamed Pesca. He is well known in all 2620 2, 5 | the extremity of Arabia Petraea, comprised between the Gulf 2621 2, 19 | terrified, passing like phantoms in the water. Some were 2622 1, 20 | gravely, "the parrot is like pheasant to those who have nothing 2623 1, 21 | discovery of Adelaide and Louis Philippe, and fixing the hydrographical 2624 2, 1 | dangerous. They were "cestracio philippi" sharks, with brown backs 2625 2, 23 | judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration 2626 1, 8 | Bah!" said Conseil, philosophically; "we can hold out some time 2627 2, 2 | chemist it is a mixture of phosphate and carbonate of lime, with 2628 1, 10 | appeared to me to be rich in phosphorus, and I thought they must 2629 1, 17 | as it were from life and photographed in its last moments. And 2630 2, 11 | is easier than to make a photographic view of this submarine region." ~ 2631 2, 16 | forsook him. He subdued his physical pains by moral force. ~By 2632 1, 14 | yourself under these new physiological conditions without any organ 2633 1, 10 | with musical composers, a piano, and a brief revery on the 2634 2, 8 | and silver, cascades of piastres and jewels. The sand was 2635 2, 9 | stopped me by a gesture, and, picking up a piece of chalk-stone, 2636 2, 10 | umbelliferous plant very good to pickle, which also bears the name 2637 1, 17 | eaten fresh, and others pickled. ~The fishing ended, the 2638 1, 20 | little of this bread-fruit pie." ~"Taste it, friend Ned-- 2639 2, 10 | which also bears the name of pierce-stone and sea-fennel. Conseil 2640 1, 2 | and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel. The Museum of 2641 1, 21 | his imminent danger, his pig on one side and kangaroos 2642 1, 20 | game, M. Aronnax. All these pigeons are only side-dishes and 2643 1, 14 | is composed of a Bunsen pile, which I do not work with 2644 2, 3 | capriciously from natural pillars, standing broad upon their 2645 1, 23 | covered with blood, lay on a pillow. I undid the bandages, and 2646 1, 20 | some mangoes, half a dozen pineapples, and the liquor fermented 2647 2, 9 | there overtopped by gigantic pines. It was like a coal-pit 2648 1, 10 | pink pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls, 2649 2, 3 | dark waters, stretched the pintadine bank, an inexhaustible field 2650 2, 3 | highest points of the bank of pintadines. ~"Here we are, M. Aronnax," 2651 1, 9 | contained in more than 176 pints of air, and this air, charged ( 2652 1, 16 | property? What other hardier pioneer would come, hatchet in hand, 2653 1, 9 | freely, I sought the conduit pipe, which conveyed to us the 2654 2, 3 | bottom of a kind of circular pit. There Captain Nemo stopped, 2655 2, 21 | ship, we could only expect pitiless enemies. But the shot rattled 2656 1, 10 | me again!" ~This was said plainly. A flash of anger and disdain 2657 1, 20 | companions' ideas had not all the plainness desirable. ~"Suppose we 2658 2, 3 | There, between the folded plaits, I saw a loose pearl, whose 2659 2, 1 | brilliance in a horizontal plane. The electric lamp was combined 2660 2, 4 | venturing in ships made of planks sewn with the cords of the 2661 2, 10 | a little umbelliferous plant very good to pickle, which 2662 2, 1 | Island, a coral formation, planted with magnificent cocos, 2663 1, 8 | utensil--spoon, fork, knife, plate--had a letter engraved on 2664 1, 11 | gave out to the sponges of platina a heat which was regularly 2665 1, 10 | cannon-balls rebounded off the plating of my vessel? Was it unintentionally 2666 2, 9 | Atlantis! the Atlantis of Plato, that continent denied by 2667 1, 2 | But this last theory, plausible as it was, could not stand 2668 1, 17 | interesting study to watch the play of its organisation. It 2669 1, 8 | that electric light which played round the submarine boat 2670 2, 2 | has just made us a very pleasant offer." ~"Ah!" said I, " 2671 1, 4 | Abraham Lincoln would be ploughing the waters of the Pacific. ~ 2672 1, 20 | wood-pigeon, which, cleverly plucked and suspended from a skewer, 2673 2, 8 | Hague, with the intention of plucking the crown of Spain from 2674 2, 12 | one fine day the creature plunges, carrying with it all the 2675 2, 7 | battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire 2676 2, 6 | that time to our days the Plutonian work has been suspended. 2677 2, 19 | ploughed by the steamers that ply between New York or Boston 2678 2, 3 | Captain Nemo, drawing from the pocket of his dress a bag of pearls, 2679 1, 5 | this is the last chance of pocketing the two thousand dollars." ~" 2680 1, 4 | took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be listening 2681 1, 23 | Its tints justified the poetical names of "Flower of Blood," 2682 1, 20 | bird, that the natives have poetically named the "bird of the sun." ~ 2683 2, 22 | impression became at last so poignant that I asked myself if it 2684 2, 9 | But, shaking his head, and pointing to the highest point of 2685 1, 21 | aimed at a savage who was poising his sling at ten yards from 2686 1, 20 | They even go so far as to poison the fountains that the birds 2687 2, 13 | coldly, "to the Antarctic pole-- to that unknown point from 2688 1, 8 | listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; 2689 1, 10 | not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared 2690 1, 2 | question in all its forms, politically and scientifically; and 2691 1, 18 | December we sighted the Pomotou Islands, the old "dangerous 2692 2, 9 | deserted streets-- a perfect Pompeii escaped beneath the waters. 2693 2, 10 | artocarpus' in this ed.} ~"'Pon my word," said Conseil, " 2694 2, 18 | a poulp. Another Bishop, Pontoppidan, speaks also of a poulp 2695 1, 5 | would have been none the poorer." ~"You are right, Conseil. 2696 1, 10 | shelves glittered china, porcelain, and glass of inestimable 2697 1, 10 | you take to be ragout of pork. My cook is a clever fellow, 2698 1, 22 | not the swift and elegant porpoise (the indefatigable clown 2699 1, 1 | quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle. ~The Scotia had not struck, 2700 2, 16 | at eight yards from the port-quarter. Then the men set to work 2701 2, 5 | had placed myself at the port-scuttle, and saw some magnificent 2702 1, 3 | an objection to pack his portmanteau for whatever country it 2703 2, 21 | beneath his heroes, I saw the portrait of a woman, still young, 2704 1, 4 | regions of the North. ~I am portraying this hardy companion as 2705 2, 4 | season. The Arabian Edrisi portrays it under the name of the 2706 2, 8 | are going up the coast of Portugal again; France and England 2707 2, 8 | no; the Nautilus kept in Portuguese waters. ~I must therefore 2708 2, 14 | voluptuous eyes, their charming positions, and the poetry of their 2709 2, 13 | assaults, the Nautilus was positively blocked. It was no longer 2710 2, 13 | smiling. "You begin to see the possibility--I should say the success-- 2711 1, 11 | chlorides of magnesium and of potassium, bromide of magnesium, sulphate 2712 2, 8 | thinking that the gesture of a potentate was sufficient to bring 2713 2, 19 | dreadful arms of a poulp, pounded by his iron jaws, would 2714 2, 19 | gates, displaces twenty-four pounders. However, the Nautilus, 2715 2, 4 | seadog, and covered with powdered resin! They had not even 2716 2, 20 | August, commanded by La Poype-Ver trieux, it fought boldly 2717 1, 23 | surgeon to the hospital. I practised several years before entering 2718 1, 20 | crossing a rather large prairie, we arrived at the skirts 2719 1, 6 | However, it must be said in praise of the Abraham Lincoln that 2720 1, 23 | had loved them, knelt in prayer. ~The grave was then filled 2721 1, 23 | funeral psalm. Were they the prayers of the dead, murmured in 2722 2, 5 | the incline of the tunnel precipitated violently towards the Mediterranean. 2723 2, 20 | 1,918 fathoms, was on the precise spot where the rupture occurred 2724 1, 10 | Captain of the Nautilus had predicted, had already begun to take 2725 1, 20 | that the birds of paradise prefer to frequent. Sometimes they 2726 2, 20 | third of its crew disabled, preferred sinking with its 356 sailors 2727 2, 9 | stones like cromlechs of prehistoric times? Where was I? Whither 2728 1, 23 | forehead, furrowed with premature wrinkles, produced probably 2729 2, 8 | an archduke to whom they prematurely gave the title of Charles 2730 1, 2 | to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous on this 2731 1, 10 | of the nature and mode of preparation of some of them. I acknowledged 2732 1, 23 | Aronnax, will you consent to prescribe for one of my men?" be asked. ~" 2733 2, 16 | voluntary task beyond the prescribed time. His task accomplished, 2734 2, 20 | mind, and I had a kind of presentiment that before long chance 2735 1, 7 | obliged to keep me up, and our preservation devolved on him alone. I 2736 1, 4 | day thought it my duty to press upon him. One magnificent 2737 1, 14 | I, in encountering great pressures at the bottom of the sea, 2738 2, 20 | fought boldly against the Preston. In 1779, on the 4th of 2739 1, 7 | swimmer (though without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar 2740 1, 10 | which no arguments would prevail. ~"So, sir," I rejoined, " 2741 1, 13 | epochs the ocean originally prevailed everywhere. Then by degrees, 2742 1, 8 | description. I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence-- 2743 2, 10 | late: the fatigues of the previous night had prolonged my sleep 2744 2, 18 | attention to a formidable pricking, like the sting of an ant, 2745 1, 15 | clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed 2746 1, 18 | This group is composed principally of nine large islands, that 2747 1, 18 | in silver that bore the print of characters engraved on 2748 2, 5 | looked like a mass faintly printed upon a damp fog. ~We were 2749 1, 15 | refraction as through a prism, flowers, rocks, plants, 2750 2, 10 | the latter forming regular prisms, placed like a colonnade 2751 1, 9 | The prison was still a prison-- the prisoners, prisoners. 2752 1, 2 | CHAPTER II~PRO AND CON~At the period when 2753 2, 19 | was one of these insoluble problems that rose up unceasingly 2754 1, 10 | of a ship. After we had proceeded a dozen yards, a second 2755 2, 20 | Nautilus continued the same process. It was evidently seeking 2756 1, 10 | which an intelligent and prodigal hand had gathered all the 2757 1, 17 | curious specimens from those productive coasts. ~I reckoned that 2758 1, 22 | an ark of safety which no profane hand might touch without 2759 2, 13 | thus obtained a submarine profile of the chain as it was developed 2760 2, 8 | well-distributed would have been profitable, whilst for them they will 2761 2, 11 | accomplishing his submarine programme, and I imagined that he 2762 1, 22 | peacefully in still water. ~So we progressed, incessantly charmed by 2763 1, 19 | and, if we continue this progression, I do not know how it will 2764 1, 14 | glass cage. Seated upon the projection formed by the hull of the 2765 1, 11 | and which enable me to prolong at need, and as long as 2766 2, 14 | the otter, whose ears are prominent), I noticed several varieties 2767 1, 21 | our treasure, and I was promising myself to enrich the museum 2768 1, 17 | indeed circulation, and to promote it, the Creator has caused 2769 2, 20 | discouraged. Cyrus Field, the bold promoter of the enterprise, as he 2770 2, 5 | to be feared. His eye is prompt, his arm sure." ~At this 2771 1, 14 | companions, who followed promptly. We then came to a cell 2772 1, 16 | practicable slope; it was the prop of the Island of Crespo. 2773 2, 19 | long, and their speed of propagation was thirty feet per second. 2774 1, 10 | the powerful agent which propels it, all excite my curiosity 2775 1, 22 | swordfish ten feet long, those prophetic heralds of the hurricane 2776 2, 4 | their departure by offering propitiatory sacrifices; and, on their 2777 1, 2 | tenfold, give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its 2778 1, 6 | conjecture them to be admirably proportioned. While I watched this phenomenon, 2779 2, 11 | planes: the instrument was propped on the bottom of the oceanic 2780 1, 10 | appeared to be strictly proscribed. Strange to say, all these 2781 1, 5 | dazzled, it is true, by the prospect of two thousand dollars, 2782 1, 15 | which crossed the chest, protecting it from the great pressure 2783 2, 20 | coating which served as a protection against all boring molluscs. 2784 1, 4 | amongst us, Conseil, seemed to protest by his indifference against 2785 1, 18 | the family fete of which Protestants are so fond. I had not seen 2786 1, 20 | with a satisfaction that protested against the ordinary food 2787 1, 8 | shall not eat me without my protesting." ~"Calm yourself, friend 2788 2, 20 | bottom appeared a large protuberance, which at once attracted 2789 2, 12 | underneath, covered with enormous protuberances. Some terrified cachalots 2790 1, 19 | sight of the English or Provencal coast; but on the Papuan 2791 1, 11 | large, which experience proves to be the best. The electricity 2792 2, 13 | lower depths are free by the Providential law which has placed the 2793 1, 10 | nicotine, with which the sea provides me, but somewhat sparingly." ~ 2794 1, 14 | man can live under water, providing he carries with him a sufficient 2795 1, 4 | in use in some Canadian provinces. The harpooner's family 2796 1, 3 | person, which was sometimes provoking. ~"Conseil," said I again, 2797 2, 20 | sadden him thus? Was it his proxim ity to European shores? 2798 2, 20 | armistice concluded between Prussia and Austria after Sadowa. 2799 1, 10 | carries it. I do not wish to pry into your secrets: but I 2800 1, 23 | like the notes of a funeral psalm. Were they the prayers of 2801 2, 4 | and probably finished by Ptolemy II. Strabo saw it navigated: 2802 1, 13 | a surmullet served with puff paste (the liver of which, 2803 2, 13 | the wings of petrels and puffins. Everything was frozen-- 2804 1, 18 | iron utensils, anchors, pulley-strops, swivel-guns, an 18 lb. 2805 2, 6 | iron staircase by means of pulleys. ~At that moment, Captain 2806 1, 20 | white but rather fibrous pulp. Others, the greater number 2807 2, 22 | loudly. I could not check its pulsations. Certainly my trouble and 2808 1, 1 | been more neatly done by a punch. It was clear, then, that 2809 2, 22 | men, he had no right to punish thus. He had made me, if 2810 2, 16 | was turning into stone?--a punishment that the ferocity of the 2811 2, 11 | contented himself with thus purging my work; it was very rare 2812 1, 10 | enemies?" ~I answered nothing, purposely. For what good would it 2813 2, 4 | answered all commercial purposes to the age of Antonius, 2814 2, 6 | carrying at his belt a leathern purse. It was not a body abandoned 2815 1, 20 | favoured us. Just as we were pushing off, he perceived several 2816 1, 11 | Nautilus. An electric thread puts it in communication with 2817 2, 22 | Like the fabulous Gordon Pym, at every moment I expected 2818 2, 3 | high rocks scarped into pyramids. In their dark fractures 2819 2, 8 | sufficient to bring the Pyrenees under his yoke, had imposed 2820 1, 20 | depopulate it of all the eatable quadrupeds. But he had reckoned without 2821 1, 20 | this bird is as drunk as a quail." ~"Drunk!" ~"Yes, sir; 2822 1, 6 | black smoke, and the bridge quaked under the trembling of the 2823 1, 20 | and yams of a superior quality. ~We were loaded when we 2824 1, 1 | of scientific journals, quarrelling with believers in the supernatural, 2825 1, 10 | inaccessible to man, and quarry the game which dwells in 2826 1, 1 | breaking. The officers of the quarter-deck hurried to the after-part 2827 2, 14 | bearing an "N" in gold quartered on its bunting. Then, turning 2828 1, 2 | published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes, entitled 2829 2, 5 | vessels anchored at the quays, and those whose draught 2830 1, 18 | and the graceful Tahiti, queen of the Pacific. I saw in 2831 1, 10 | ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. 2832 1, 18 | swivel-guns. ~Dumont d'Urville, questioning the natives, learned too 2833 1, 6 | whale!" ~We were on the qui vive till daylight, and 2834 2, 12 | the beatings of the screw quicken, and our speed increased. 2835 1, 13 | Nothing was in sight. Not a quicksand, not an island. A vast desert. ~ 2836 1, 7 | that we were in a bath of quicksilver. ~Near one o'clock in the 2837 2, 14 | yards and a quarter long. Quieter and less timid than their 2838 1, 13 | of longitude. It is the quietest of seas; its currents are 2839 1, 13 | of which would be three quintillions of tons. To comprehend the 2840 1, 18 | Hebrides, discovered by Quiros in 1606, and that Bougainville 2841 2, 4 | Certainly," said I, "this sea is quoted as one of the worst, and 2842 2, 12 | divided by 480, gives a quotient of 625. Which means to say, 2843 1, 20 | species of those "kangaroo rabbits" that live habitually in 2844 1, 4 | hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in 2845 1, 22 | was casting its electric radiance into the liquid mass. I 2846 1, 5 | the sharks. Small craft radiated in all directions round 2847 2, 14 | could see no volcano for a radius of several miles. We know 2848 1, 10 | livers, which you take to be ragout of pork. My cook is a clever 2849 1, 20 | completed our collection by a raid upon the cabbage-palms, 2850 1, 21 | to perish miserably in a railway train! If this energetic 2851 2, 21 | war, whose shot was still raining around him, he exclaimed, 2852 2, 4 | Etesian winds and in the rainy season. The Arabian Edrisi 2853 1, 2 | it a high reputation. It rallied round it a certain number 2854 1, 5 | November. It had the effect of rallying the ship's crew. The ocean 2855 1, 20 | forests. Some kingfishers were rambling along the water-courses, 2856 1, 2 | armoured frigates, or the `rams' of war, whose massiveness 2857 1, 15 | with a regular step, which rang upon the ground with astonishing 2858 1, 17 | saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several mountain-chains 2859 2, 3 | waters their divers will ransack so boldly. Happily, this 2860 2, 16 | burning fluid, which became rarefied more and more. A moral torpor 2861 1, 21 | without bringing up any rarities. The drag was filled with 2862 1, 11 | increasing resistance, which is rated by hundreds of atmospheres? 2863 1, 2 | threatened to raise their rates of premium, were unanimous 2864 1, 15 | of sound than air, in the ratio of four to one. At this 2865 2, 16 | symptoms. Some of the crew had rattling in the throat. ~On that 2866 2, 21 | the steel spur. I heard rattlings and scrapings. But the Nautilus, 2867 1, 20 | harpooner, who was beginning to ravage another coco-nut tree. " 2868 2, 9 | wind was preparing. Ned raved, and tried to pierce the 2869 2, 20 | Manche? Ned Land, who had re-appeared since we had been nearing 2870 1, 1 | weeks after, it had not been re-enacted under similar circumstances. 2871 1, 19 | that it was necessary to re-enter it. ~"Meat! We are going 2872 2, 18 | tails of these animals are re-formed by renewal; and in seven 2873 1, 12 | dives below the water it reaches absolute tranquillity. There, 2874 1, 18 | papers, yellow but still readable. ~They were the instructions 2875 1, 23 | unfortunate man's wounds, I readjusted the bandages on his head, 2876 2, 8 | circumstance, would prevent the realisation of Ned Land's project. ~ 2877 1, 7 | rays. This kindly light reanimated us. My head got better again. 2878 1, 5 | mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of obstinacy, Captain 2879 1, 12 | nothing to object to these reasonings. ~"I admit your calculations, 2880 1, 1 | Captain Anderson hastened to reassure them. The danger could not 2881 2, 21 | without piercing it; and, rebounding near the Captain, was lost 2882 2, 4 | others, with disgust and rebuffs; but he has triumphed, for 2883 2, 4 | fortifications of which were rebuilt by the English after taking 2884 1, 14 | characters rather pointed, recalling the German type. The note 2885 2, 20 | of the ocean could not be recaptured. The Americans, however, 2886 1, 19 | afternoon. The tide began to recede, being quite full. The Nautilus 2887 1, 14 | head in a metal helmet, receives air from above by means 2888 | recent 2889 2, 11 | uninhabited grottoes, these lowest receptacles of the globe, where life 2890 2, 19 | allowed the same?" ~This reception was not encouraging; but 2891 2, 6 | Sporades, by Captain Nemo reciting these lines from Virgil: ~" 2892 1, 20 | looks. I had no trouble in recognising them. ~"Birds of paradise!" 2893 1, 7 | us, and uttered a cry of recognition, which was responded to 2894 2, 19 | and soul of the Captain, recoiling like him from all contact 2895 1, 8 | Ned did not beg off, and recommenced our story. ~To his great 2896 1, 22 | master permit me to make a recommendation?" asked Conseil. ~"Yes, 2897 1, 14 | venison." ~Without seeking to reconcile what was contradictory between 2898 1, 10 | that my interest might be reconciled with that pity to which 2899 1, 20 | them it would be wise to reconnoitre and see if the island does 2900 2, 23 | received us, I revise my record of these adventures once 2901 1, 1 | whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of 2902 1, 19 | followed by his lieutenant, redescended to the interior of the Nautilus. 2903 2, 8 | join Ned Land. My agitation redoubled. My pulse beat violently. 2904 2, 9 | above my head. The noise redoubling, sometimes producing a continual 2905 1, 19 | along some miles from the redoubtable bank on which Cook's vessel 2906 2, 6 | not wish it." ~"You can reduce it as you please, then?" ~" 2907 2, 14 | fin; the "humpback," with reeved chest and large, whitish 2908 1, 15 | rays, which were no longer refracted. The magical colours disappeared 2909 2, 3 | stopped me, made a sign of refusal, and quickly withdrew his 2910 2, 8 | stopped at these last words, regretting perhaps that he had spoken 2911 2, 9 | rocks, leaning on their regularly-cut bases, seemed to defy all 2912 1, 14 | means of forcing pumps and regulators." ~"That is a diving apparatus," 2913 1, 11 | conforms to every use, and reigns supreme on board my vessel. 2914 1, 19 | do not see how it will be reinflated." ~"The tides are not strong 2915 1, 23 | companions, no doubt, had been reinstated in their cabin, without 2916 2, 15 | base by warmer water or reiterated shocks their centre of gravity 2917 2, 16 | struck him; but he seemed to reject it. At last, these words 2918 2, 6 | a smaller island, called Reka, showed itself near Nea 2919 2, 4 | the Gulf of Colzoum, and relates that vessels perished there 2920 1, 1 | than a whale. ~The facts relating to this apparition (entered 2921 1, 10 | country, our friends, our relations again?" ~"Yes, sir. But 2922 2, 3 | accustomed themselves to this relative state of darkness. I could 2923 2, 16 | enclosed in a space that is relatively confined. Would not jets 2924 2, 5 | We pursued it without relaxation for an hour, and I began 2925 1, 22 | companions, until I think fit to release you." ~"You are the master," 2926 1, 18 | There it collected numerous relics of the wreck-- iron utensils, 2927 1, 7 | than ten minutes each; and relieving each other thus, we could 2928 2, 11 | honour which we should have religiously kept. But we must consider 2929 1, 20 | and I ate of it with great relish. ~"What time is it now?" 2930 2, 1 | for several times I made remarks in a loud voice, which must 2931 2, 10 | the mountain, their misty remnants--certain proof that they 2932 1, 22 | Nautilus. ~Ned Land would have remonstrated, but the door was shut upon 2933 1, 3 | trunks conveniently away, and remounted the poop in order to survey 2934 2, 13 | bristled round the South Pole, rendering it more inaccessible than 2935 1, 20 | flavours their flesh and renders it delicious eating. ~"Now, 2936 2, 13 | remaining several days without renewing our provision of air." ~" 2937 1, 10 | For a long time I have renounced the food of the earth, and 2938 2, 13 | movement, producing large rents in it. Violent gales assailed 2939 1, 12 | any difficulty in getting repaired at the next port." ~"Ah, 2940 2, 17 | and otters had splendid repasts, eating the flesh of fish 2941 2, 17 | All my gratitude could not repay such devotion. ~"My friends," 2942 2, 1 | vast Bay of Bengal, we met repeatedly a forbidding spectacle, 2943 1, 15 | carpet, really a reflector, repelled the rays of the sun with 2944 2, 5 | of which he had cause to repent, turned upon the pinnace 2945 1, 22 | unmoved by its fury and reposed peacefully in still water. ~ 2946 1, 21 | worth the Nautilus, quiet repository of labour that she is, truly 2947 2, 19 | fellow-countryman. Did he alone represent France in this mysterious 2948 2, 3 | devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which 2949 2, 10 | that bees were not the only representatives of the animal kingdom in 2950 1, 18 | understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. Jacquireot 2951 2, 3 | which the pearl-oysters are reproduced by millions. ~Captain Nemo 2952 1, 11 | answer to the particular requirements of the Nautilus. This dial 2953 1, 11 | maintain yourselves in the requisite medium? Am I asking too 2954 1, 2 | otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European 2955 1, 2 | returned from a scientific research in the disagreeable territory 2956 1, 10 | globe which has escaped my researches." ~"I can understand, Captain, 2957 2, 5 | of the halicore, closely resembles the manatee; its oblong 2958 1, 10 | not a gesture betrayed the resentment which this man must have 2959 1, 14 | I must be allowed some reservations with regard to the gun I 2960 1, 23 | waited for other questions, reserving my answers according to 2961 1, 23 | said I, "I am a doctor and resident surgeon to the hospital. 2962 2, 4 | and covered with powdered resin! They had not even instruments 2963 2, 16 | Let us try it," I said resolutely. ~"Let us try it, Professor." ~ 2964 1, 21 | any emergency, were now resorted to, and discharged several 2965 1, 21 | and fearful vociferations resounded outside. ~The port lids 2966 1, 7 | cried Ned Land, kicking the resounding plate. "Open, you inhospitable 2967 1, 8 | word. ~There remained one resource, to speak English. Perhaps 2968 1, 8 | vainly exhausted our speaking resources, I knew not what part to 2969 1, 18 | stated that the savages had respected the monument to La Perouse. 2970 1, 1 | United States and Europe, respectively signalled the monster to 2971 1, 1 | log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object 2972 2, 16 | And what was left of the respirable air must be kept for the 2973 2, 16 | carbonic acid produced by our respiration had invaded every part of 2974 1, 9 | already obliged to increase my respirations to eke out of this cell 2975 1, 14 | according to the wants of the respirator. But I, in encountering 2976 1, 14 | was thus worded: ~"Nautron respoc lorni virch." ~What it meant 2977 1, 23 | habitual notes, and seemed restless and uneasy. At last, he 2978 1, 11 | force has remained under restraint, and has only been able 2979 2, 14 | continent seemed to me much restricted. Some lichens lay upon the 2980 1, 1 | was the last fact, which resulted in exciting once more the 2981 1, 10 | know me no more? Never! In retaining you, it is not you whom 2982 1, 15 | as on a flat shore, which retains the impression of the billows. 2983 2, 23 | the ocean those frightful retaliations? Or, did he stop after the 2984 1, 13 | your permission, I will retire." Captain Nemo bowed, and 2985 1, 15 | sea. ~And now, how can I retrace the impression left upon 2986 2, 8 | opportunity to profit by. Could I retract my word, and take upon myself 2987 2, 11 | describing a lengthened oval, returns to the Antilles. This second 2988 2, 19 | barometer, as in 1860 at Reunion during a cyclone, fell seven-tenths 2989 2, 11 | under an oath never to reveal his existence?--an oath 2990 1, 21 | thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten 2991 1, 21 | and had plunged into a reverie that I did not disturb. 2992 2, 5 | resistance, beat the waves with reversed screw. ~On the walls of 2993 2, 15 | Nautilus was increasing; and, reversing the screw, it carried us 2994 1, 10 | composers, a piano, and a brief revery on the part of Nemo} ~Under 2995 1, 2 | was extreme. The ship was revictualled and well stocked with coal. ~ 2996 1, 21 | Then, chart in hand, we reviewed the travels of the French 2997 2, 23 | so kindly received us, I revise my record of these adventures 2998 2, 19 | emotion. Since then I have revised the recital; I have read 2999 1, 1 | seemed buried, never to revive, when new facts were brought 3000 1, 1 | ancient times were even revived. ~Then burst forth the unending 3001 2, 4 | Mohammed-ben-Abdallah, who had revolted against him. During the 3002 1, 7 | words produced a sudden revolution in my brain. I wriggled 3003 1, 6 | were increased, the screw revolved forty-three times a minute, 3004 1, 20 | all directions. ~Chance rewarded our search for eatable vegetables, 3005 1, 10 | altered the last sentence reworded} ~Therefore, to estimate