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3006 2, 6 | submarine studies; and I was rewriting my book of submarine depths 3007 2, 8 | Elbe, the Loire, and the Rhine, which carry water from 3008 1, 2 | animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be 3009 1, 14 | known under the name of Rhodomenia palmata. Captain Nemo ate 3010 2, 12 | vertebrae, and it has two more ribs than its congeners. The 3011 1, 16 | being very perfect, and richer even than it would have 3012 2, 4 | which was at one time the richest commercial magazine on the 3013 1, 10 | of the room was a table richly laid out. Captain Nemo indicated 3014 2, 21 | them struck the sea and ricochetted, losing themselves in the 3015 1, 1 | sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed it in the papers, and represented 3016 1, 21 | shell." ~Shells are all right-handed, with rare exceptions; and, 3017 2, 15 | passed. ~"At last we have righted!" I exclaimed. ~"Yes," said 3018 2, 15 | the hold. Evidently it was righting a little. Things hanging 3019 2, 8 | depriving them of their rights. They complained at Madrid, 3020 1, 16 | fuci and llianas grew in rigid perpendicular lines, due 3021 1, 20 | bears in Malaya the name of "rima." ~Ned Land knew these fruits 3022 1, 7 | knife under my clothes, he ripped them up from top to bottom 3023 2, 2 | with a blow of a chopper, ripping them up, and throwing their 3024 2, 10 | surface, which knew neither ripple nor wave. The Nautilus remained 3025 1, 13 | light breeze from the east rippled the surface of the waters. 3026 1, 13 | games, their bounds, while rivalling each other in beauty, brightness, 3027 2, 8 | a miserable question of rivalry suddenly arisen. ~"You are 3028 1, 2 | persistently watched by powerful rivals, certainly impossible. ~ 3029 1, 22 | as though they bad been rivulets of lead melted in an ardent 3030 2, 3 | The shark had seemed to roar, if I might say so. The 3031 1, 19 | bearers of cutlets and roast beef, to which I would willingly 3032 2, 9 | diving-dresses." ~Arrived at the robing-room, I saw that neither of my 3033 1, 14 | ancient Spanish maps as Rocca de la Plata, the meaning 3034 1, 13 | clearness is far beyond that of rock-water. The mineral and organic 3035 2, 10 | large number of shells, rockfish, and limpets. Three-quarters 3036 2, 3 | with such fury that the rocking threatened to upset me. ~ 3037 2, 11 | torn from the Andes or the Rocky Mountains, and floated by 3038 1, 16 | but kept as straight as a rod of iron. The fuci and llianas 3039 2, 5 | water, as a lion does a roebuck. We were upset over one 3040 2, 3 | spreading wide, gave a slight roll to the boat, and some samphire 3041 2, 8 | platform, which the heavy rolls of the sea beat over every 3042 2, 7 | the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, 3043 2, 9 | destroyed, lay a town-- its roofs open to the sky, its temples 3044 1, 7 | chance! but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man! Moreover, 3045 2, 3 | of a sugar loaf, whilst a rope fastened him to his boat, 3046 1, 15 | whose umbrellas of opal or rose-pink, escalloped with a band 3047 2, 9 | in the distance. ~But the rosy light which guided us increased 3048 2, 6 | Canadian, "your arguments are rotten at the foundation. You speak 3049 1, 18 | shipwrecked vessels that were rotting in the depths, and deeper 3050 1, 12 | materials enables it to defy the roughest seas. ~"These two hulls 3051 1, 13 | double line of black; the round-tailed goby, of a white colour, 3052 2, 20 | towards European seas. In rounding the Emerald Isle, for one 3053 2, 6 | continued; "this low coast which rounds off to the south is the 3054 2, 12 | Events were rare which could rouse him to any show of spirit; 3055 1, 19 | rocks. It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the 3056 2, 5 | and, lifted by the six rowers, drew rapidly towards the 3057 1, 19 | blew on land. Conseil and I rowing, we sped along quickly, 3058 2, 5 | The oars rested on the rowlocks. I half rose. Ned Land, 3059 1, 14 | such as we use, two india rubber pipes leave this box and 3060 1, 7 | thanks to the vigorous rubbings that I received. I half 3061 1, 23 | then filled in with the rubbish taken from the ground, which 3062 2, 7 | the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with 3063 2, 14 | some microscopic plants, rudimentary diatomas, a kind of cells 3064 2, 14 | the soil was riddled with ruffs' nests, a sort of laying-ground, 3065 2, 14 | Their skins were thick and rugged, of a yellowish tint, approaching 3066 1, 9 | we must conform to the rules on board, and I suppose 3067 2, 14 | bellowings such as a troop of ruminants would produce. ~"Good!" 3068 1, 1 | forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime 3069 1, 8 | naked feet cling to the rungs of an iron ladder. Ned Land 3070 2, 20 | the precise spot where the rupture occurred which ruined the 3071 1, 18 | iron materials eaten up by rust. However, on the 11th of 3072 1, 17 | that the vessel had had to sacrifice its masts. But, lying on 3073 2, 22 | vessels, but whales are sacrificed, as well as white bears 3074 2, 4 | by offering propitiatory sacrifices; and, on their return, they 3075 2, 16 | two brave friends, were sacrificing themselves to save me. Some 3076 2, 20 | gloomier than ever. What could sadden him thus? Was it his proxim 3077 2, 8 | irritated, or (what was worse) saddened, at my desertion, made my 3078 1, 17 | lost under the waves, but sadder still was the sight of the 3079 2, 10 | of justifying their name, sadly drooped their clusters of 3080 2, 20 | Prussia and Austria after Sadowa. On the 27th, in the midst 3081 2, 8 | seeing myself and companions safely landed, sometimes wishing, 3082 2, 9 | ocean, where his riches are safer than in the chests of the 3083 1, 20 | extraordinary menu. The sago pasty, the artocarpus bread, 3084 1, 20 | had attained a forest of sago-trees. Some inoffensive serpents 3085 2, 21 | vessel like a needle through sailcloth! ~I could stand it no longer. 3086 1, 6 | for one of the swiftest sailers in the American navy. A 3087 1, 13 | We are walking--we are sailing--blindly." ~Ned Land had 3088 2, 11 | seemed abandoned. A few sailing-vessels, on the road to India, were 3089 1, 9 | pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations. It was an invigorating 3090 1, 13 | seemed to me superior even to salmon. ~I passed the evening reading, 3091 2, 19 | waters. It is a salt river, salter than the surrounding sea. 3092 1, 14 | on board, without either saltpetre, sulphur, or charcoal?" ~" 3093 2, 6 | owing to the presence of salts of iron. In spite of the 3094 1, 14 | platform. I was prepared to salute Captain Nemo, but it was 3095 1, 19 | without feathers, will be saluted by my first shot." ~"Very 3096 2, 21 | approach, there was a chance of salvation for us. ~"Sir," said Ned 3097 2, 3 | roll to the boat, and some samphire reeds flapped before it. ~ 3098 2, 10 | strewn--to vessels a simple sandbank--to us an immense cavern. 3099 1, 1 | monster was the fashion. They sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed 3100 1, 18 | directed his course towards Santa Cruz, and put into Namouka, 3101 2, 9 | without leaves, without sap, trees petrified by the 3102 1, 15 | the shades of emerald and sapphire were effaced. We walked 3103 2, 15 | of gems, particularly of sapphires, their blue rays crossing 3104 1, 21 | Captain answered me very sarcastically. I have but one thing to 3105 2, 11 | comes from the Spanish word "sargazzo" which signifies kelp. This 3106 2, 17 | I had a glimpse of Mount Sarmiento, that rises 2,070 yards 3107 1, 19 | much astonished if that satellite does not raise these masses 3108 2, 16 | bring this enterprise to a satisfactory conclusion. Five nights 3109 2, 9 | phenomenon as yet unknown to the savants of the earth? Or even (for 3110 1, 13 | emperor-holocanthus, the savour of which seemed to me superior 3111 1, 7 | I saw " murmured he; "I saw--but do not talk--reserve 3112 2, 12 | cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish-- without you troubling them." ~ 3113 2, 2 | Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Saxony, Bohemia, and France." ~" 3114 2, 10 | kestrels, and down the slopes scampered, with their long legs, several 3115 2, 14 | their hair was short and scant. Some of them were four 3116 2, 6 | flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes 3117 2, 3 | Often we rounded high rocks scarped into pyramids. In their 3118 2, 9 | them. Natural towers, large scarps, cut perpendicularly, like 3119 2, 22 | passed before my eyes like scenes in a drama. Then Captain 3120 1, 20 | grilled on the coals, soon scented the air with a delicious 3121 2, 19 | and night by the little schooners coasting about the several 3122 1, 2 | its forms, politically and scientifically; and I give here an extract 3123 2, 20 | point of England and the Scilly Isles, which were left to 3124 1, 17 | Irishmen, Frenchmen, some Sclaves, and a Greek, or a Candiote. 3125 1, 13 | on the back; the Japanese scombrus, a beautiful mackerel of 3126 1, 21 | Nautilus. These canoes, scooped out of the trunk of a tree, 3127 1, 21 | we had not perceived. A score of canoes surrounded the 3128 2, 2 | mussels of certain waters in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Saxony, 3129 1, 22 | Hibernia, Seringapatam, and Scott, last efforts of the solid 3130 1, 21 | man," said I. ~"Ah! the scoundrel!" cried Conseil; "I would 3131 1, 3 | lose a day nor an hour in scouring the seas in which the animal 3132 2, 21 | spur. I heard rattlings and scrapings. But the Nautilus, carried 3133 1, 4 | would have been able even to scratch the iron plates of a steamer." ~" 3134 2, 21 | ship trembled. Suddenly I screamed. I felt the shock, but comparatively 3135 1, 19 | its remarkable border of screw-pines. He stood off it at about 3136 1, 6 | the waves, and its thick scrolls rose little by little. The 3137 1, 14 | to relate them with more scrupulous exactitude and minute detail. ~ 3138 2, 8 | enemy's hands, he burnt and scuttled every galleon, which went 3139 2, 17 | I inhaled the vivifying sea-air. My two companions were 3140 2, 13 | fur, at the expense of the sea-bear and seal. The interior of 3141 1, 23 | united by garlands of elegant sea-bindweed, all adorned with clouds 3142 2, 14 | mouthful; and some perfect sea-butterflies, animating the waters on 3143 2, 16 | The Canadian put on his sea-costume, and was ready as soon as 3144 2, 10 | Aristotle by the name of the sea-dragon, which are dangerous to 3145 2, 3 | sailors to put on my heavy sea-dress. Captain Nemo and my companions 3146 2, 14 | fleur-de-lis. Amongst them glided sea-elephants, a kind of seal, with short, 3147 2, 10 | name of pierce-stone and sea-fennel. Conseil gathered some bundles 3148 2, 10 | soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul. ~We had arrived 3149 1, 23 | no submarine prairies, no sea-forest. I immediately recognised 3150 2, 1 | number of aquatic birds, sea-mews or gulls. Some were cleverly 3151 1, 10 | be chasing some powerful sea-monster, of which it was necessary 3152 1, 16 | us. It was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively 3153 2, 7 | orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume 3154 1, 21 | We also brought up some sea-slugs, pearl-oysters, and a dozen 3155 1, 16 | few steps off, a monstrous sea-spider, about thirty-eight inches 3156 1, 15 | collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom. 3157 2, 5 | delicate game. A flight of sea-swallows rested on the Nautilus. 3158 1, 2 | shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, 3159 1, 4 | that whales, cetaceans, or sea-unicorns could ever produce the effect 3160 2, 17 | eating the flesh of fish with sea-vegetables, according to the English 3161 2, 4 | saturated with the grease of the seadog, and covered with powdered 3162 1, 8 | shark, and beef steaks from seadogs." ~"We shall see," said 3163 1, 1 | interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. 3164 2, 8 | coat of byssus, lined with sealskin; I was ready, I was waiting. 3165 1, 15 | of india-rubber without seam, and constructed expressly 3166 1, 7 | up inside the machine. I searched all over the outside for 3167 2, 5 | Six oarsmen took their seats, and the coxswain went to 3168 2, 2 | a word, all those which secrete mother-of-pearl, that is, 3169 2, 2 | naturalists, it is simply a morbid secretion of the organ that produces 3170 2, 3 | grow slowly. Each year the secretions of the mollusc would add 3171 2, 10 | leave the submarine passage secretly? Perhaps so. Whatever it 3172 1, 12 | sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the Nautilus. 3173 1, 20 | made a double shot and secured breakfast. He brought down 3174 2, 6 | L200,000 ~The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain 3175 2, 8 | I think you can act with security." ~Ned Land still looked 3176 2, 2 | known under the name of seed-pearls; they are sold by measure, 3177 1, 20 | the variety destitute of seeds, which bears in Malaya the 3178 1, 1 | she had been struck, and seemingly by something rather sharp 3179 1, 19 | imprisonment, or the year that sees us continue this strange 3180 2, 16 | that an involuntary terror seizes me and my lungs seem to 3181 1, 13 | abandon for a time all idea of seizing the Nautilus or escaping 3182 1, 8 | prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence--because his head was well 3183 1, 7 | quiet boy was perfectly self-possessed. We then decided that, as 3184 1, 16 | world. ~These plants are self-propagated, and the principle of their 3185 1, 23 | saw his men were forming a semi-circle round their chief. Watching 3186 1, 6 | beating to port, described a semicircle. ~"Right the helm, go ahead," 3187 1, 14 | attached to the pump which sends him air through an india-rubber 3188 2, 8 | Orinoco, the Niger, the Senegal, the Elbe, the Loire, and 3189 1, 20 | region of forests." ~That was sensible advice, and was followed 3190 1, 23 | flowers, these animated, sensitive plants, the whole colony 3191 1, 5 | his nerves vibrated to a sentiment of curiosity. ~"Come, Conseil," 3192 2, 14 | did not, like them, place sentinels round the outskirts of their 3193 2, 8 | its cargo, should remain sequestered in the roads of Vigo until 3194 1, 22 | of Cartier, of Hibernia, Seringapatam, and Scott, last efforts 3195 1, 1 | solved, but a real danger seriously to be avoided. The question 3196 2, 1 | Nautilus one of those unknown servants who return mankind contempt 3197 2, 4 | the Red Sea was begun by Sesostris, if we may believe tradition. 3198 1, 21 | this low latitude, the sun sets rapidly and without twilight. 3199 2, 19 | Reunion during a cyclone, fell seven-tenths at the close of day. I saw 3200 2, 1 | length is not more than seven-thousandths of an inch. These insects 3201 1, 1 | thirteen knots and a half. ~At seventeen minutes past four in the 3202 2, 8 | Still the same monklike severity of aspect. ~Suddenly the 3203 2, 4 | in ships made of planks sewn with the cords of the palmtree, 3204 2, 6 | I wished in no way to shackle the liberty of my companions, 3205 1, 20 | graceful aerial curves, and the shading of their colours, attracted 3206 2, 9 | be traced the vague and shadowy forms of castles and temples, 3207 1, 4 | replied the Canadian, shaken by these figures, but not 3208 1, 8 | shut. ~"It is an infamous shame," cried Ned Land, who broke 3209 1, 2 | Francisco, from California to Shanghai, had seen the animal three 3210 2, 17 | soon passed, and the course shaped for Cape Horn. We were off 3211 2, 1 | eleven rows of teeth-- eyed sharks--their throat being marked 3212 1, 19 | Canadian, whose teeth seemed sharpened like the edge of a hatchet; " 3213 1, 6 | Land contented himself with sharpening his harpoon--a terrible 3214 1, 23 | horrible wound. The skull, shattered by some deadly weapon, left 3215 1, 6 | was mistaken. She tried to sheer off, but the supernatural 3216 2, 3 | painter was cast off, and we sheered off. ~The boat went towards 3217 1, 10 | like those of Neptune's old shepherds, graze fearlessly in the 3218 2, 13 | were in the latitude of New Shetland and South Orkney. The Captain 3219 1, 21 | armed with bows, arrows, and shields and carried on their shoulders 3220 2, 15 | Yes, sir. The iceberg has shifted and closed every outlet." ~" 3221 1, 21 | zodiacal stars that would shine in some hours' time. The 3222 2, 21 | Canadian, "I bet she is a ship-of-war. May it reach us; and, if 3223 1, 2 | this point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 3224 1, 4 | through and through." ~"Wooden ships--that is possible," replied 3225 1, 3 | travelling utensils, coats, shirts, and stockings--without 3226 1, 8 | rapidity of lightning. I shivered all over. Whom had we to 3227 1, 19 | These fish followed us in shoals, and furnished us with very 3228 1, 21 | touched it felt a powerful shock-- and this shock would have 3229 1, 8 | fur of the sea otter, and shod with sea boots of seal's 3230 1, 15 | of my clothing, or of my shoes, of my reservoir of air, 3231 2, 4 | the two seas, which will shorten the road from Cadiz to India, 3232 1, 4 | column of water would be shorter, as we are speaking of sea 3233 1, 5 | was the voice of Ned Land shouting: ~"Look out there! The very 3234 1, 1 | had it not been for the shouts of the carpenter's watch, 3235 2, 10 | diving-dresses, pick axe and shovel in hand, my men extract 3236 1, 18 | crew. ~Captain Dillon, a shrewd old Pacific sailor, was 3237 2, 10 | spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number of shells, 3238 1, 17 | vessel of which the tattered shrouds still hung from their chains. 3239 1, 22 | clenched fists, and head shrunk between his shoulders, betrayed 3240 1, 16 | animal, I could not help shuddering with horror. Conseil and 3241 2, 1 | Nemo was not satisfied with shunning man. His formidable apparatus 3242 1, 8 | of phosphorescence. After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I 3243 2, 7 | were then passing between Sicily and the coast of Tunis. 3244 1, 23 | at least as much as the sick man. ~Captain Nemo conducted 3245 2, 22 | giddy speed. I felt that sickly giddiness which arises from 3246 2, 10 | foot of an aloe with long, sickly-looking leaves. But between the 3247 1, 3 | health, which defied all sickness, and solid muscles, but 3248 1, 20 | All these pigeons are only side-dishes and trifles; and until I 3249 2, 11 | keels, or ships' bottoms, side-planks stove in, and so weighted 3250 1, 10 | severe taste. High oaken sideboards, inlaid with ebony, stood 3251 2, 1 | whole sky, though lit by the sidereal rays, seemed black by contrast 3252 2, 17 | is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. 3253 2, 22 | going to open it, when a sigh from Captain Nemo nailed 3254 1, 20 | time flies on firm ground!" sighed Ned Land. ~"Let us be off," 3255 1, 23 | fancied I heard distant sighs like the notes of a funeral 3256 2, 11 | longer possible! What unknown sights are here! Why should we 3257 2, 11 | of any kind happened to signalise our voyage. I saw little 3258 1, 1 | SHIFTING REEF~The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, 3259 2, 21 | name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape 3260 1, 20 | Ned Land, moving his jaws significantly. ~"Well, Ned!" said Conseil. ~" 3261 2, 11 | Spanish word "sargazzo" which signifies kelp. This kelp, or berry-plant, 3262 1, 23 | I asked. ~"What does it signify?" he replied, evasively. " 3263 2, 19 | attempt, and try " ~I was silenced; Captain Nemo rose. ~"Whatever 3264 1, 15 | composed of equal parts of silicious and calcareous shells. We 3265 1, 13 | Then by degrees, in the silurian period, the tops of the 3266 2, 17 | impunity indulge in the simplest aliments that were given 3267 1, 1 | 60° 35' W. long. In these simultaneous observations they thought 3268 2, 5 | It was Mount Horeb, that Sinai at the top of which Moses 3269 2, 12 | Something like the travels of Sinbad the Sailor," I replied, 3270 2, 2 | more precious, are sold singly. Those adhering to the shell 3271 1, 14 | complain, and, indeed, the singularity of our fate reserved such 3272 2, 13 | surface cold." ~"Just so, sir--just so," I replied, getting 3273 2, 11 | the bottom of the oceanic site, and in a few seconds we 3274 1, 14 | of the Captain during our sitting of the day before, and hoping 3275 2, 14 | between the South Pole and the sixtieth parallel, the sea is covered 3276 1, 11 | did not measure less than sixty-five feet in length. It was divided 3277 1, 12 | and ten thick, weighs only sixty-two tons. The engine, the ballast, 3278 1, 17 | heeling over to port. This skeleton of what it had once been 3279 2, 18 | than four feet long. Some skeletons of poulps are preserved 3280 1, 12 | The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, 3281 1, 20 | plucked and suspended from a skewer, was roasted before a red 3282 2, 1 | justly compares to an elegant skiff. A boat indeed! It bears 3283 1, 21 | water. They were managed by skilful, half-naked paddlers, and 3284 1, 20 | stone dead. The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, 3285 2, 14 | they did not move. Their skins were thick and rugged, of 3286 1, 1 | sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, 3287 2, 7 | which the Nautilus was skirting at a moderate speed. ~During 3288 1, 23 | was a horrible wound. The skull, shattered by some deadly 3289 1, 10 | the whole lighted by a skylight. No comforts, the strictest 3290 2, 21 | speed of the Nautilus was slackening, and I knew that it was 3291 1, 12 | it moves horizontally. If slanted, the Nautilus, according 3292 2, 14 | about the size of a goose, slate-colour on the body, white beneath, 3293 2, 18 | Rise to the surface, and slaughter this vermin." ~"A difficult 3294 2, 19 | please." ~"But everywhere the slave has the right to regain 3295 1, 17 | charming book by Jean Mace, The Slaves of the Stomach, and I was 3296 1, 15 | the lungs free to act; the sleeves ended in gloves, which in 3297 1, 6 | was immediately loaded and slewed round. But the shot passed 3298 2, 19 | opportunity of meeting him slip. I knocked at the door. 3299 2, 18 | the crew tried to pass a slip-knot round the body of the mollusc. 3300 2, 14 | stones which the ice made slippery. More than once I rolled 3301 1, 7 | Will master let me make a slit?" said he; and, slipping 3302 1, 18 | movements, had sent the sloop Bayonnaise, commanded by 3303 1, 18 | to the fate of these two sloops, manned two large merchantmen, 3304 1, 15 | At this period the earth sloped downwards; the light took 3305 2, 4 | itself in a canal cut with sluices. And again, the Red Sea 3306 2, 16 | cork-jacket, I traversed the slushy mass at a temperature of 3307 1, 21 | Ned Land and Conseil were slyly watching some of the ship' 3308 2, 13 | obstacles for us! Let us smash this iceberg! Let us blow 3309 2, 10 | perfumed, and I admit that I smelt them with delight. Perfume 3310 2, 3 | owed you that." ~A ghastly smile passed across the Captain' 3311 2, 7 | Lybia, and the soundings of Smith have proved that in former 3312 1, 10 | lover of smoking who has not smoked for two days. ~"It is excellent, 3313 2, 1 | monsters, particularly certain smooth-hound sharks, whose mouth is studded 3314 1, 22 | declare it is easy to lead a snail's life. ~Thus this life 3315 1, 22 | the diet on board. Like snails, we were fixed to our shells, 3316 2, 3 | moment the shark was going to snap the unhappy fisherman in 3317 1, 20 | them. Sometimes they put snares on the top of high trees 3318 1, 22 | glass than it was quickly snatched out of my hands. ~I turned 3319 2, 1 | taken by the Captain of snatching from my eyes the glass I 3320 2, 5 | feet of the boat, stopped, sniffed the air briskly with its 3321 2, 12 | sharp hissing, and what snorting peculiar to these enraged 3322 2, 1 | Isabella sharks, with rounded snouts marked with dark spots. 3323 2, 23 | have been lost! If it be so--if Captain Nemo still inhabits 3324 1, 23 | tried in vain to suppress a sob. Then he added: "Our peaceful 3325 2, 14 | cries, a large assembly, sober in gesture, but extravagant 3326 2, 18 | graver, more retired, less sociable. He seemed to shun me. I 3327 1, 10 | placed beyond the pale of social laws. Amongst the surprises 3328 1, 10 | the light was tempered and softened by exquisite paintings. ~ 3329 1, 15 | the feet, and rivalled the softest carpet woven by the hand 3330 1, 19 | eight the Nautilus boat ran softly aground on a heavy sand, 3331 2, 13 | deserted; fishes did not sojourn in these imprisoned waters; 3332 2, 13 | barrier, formed by mountains soldered together. ~"An iceberg!" 3333 1, 14 | means of braces, like a soldier's knapsack. Its upper part 3334 1, 18 | their course towards the Solomon Islands, and there perished, 3335 2, 14 | this period, the summer solstice of the northern regions, 3336 1, 2 | then, only two possible solutions of the question, which created 3337 2, 8 | you have not been able to solve." ~"I listen, Captain," 3338 1, 20 | we were penetrating the sombre arches of the forest, and 3339 | someone 3340 1, 22 | CHAPTER XXII~"AEGRI SOMNIA"~The following day 10th 3341 2, 4 | carried on by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and probably 3342 1, 20 | that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number 3343 1, 22 | suspicion seized me. Evidently soporific substances had been mixed 3344 1, 18 | Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of " 3345 1, 23 | probably by misfortune and sorrow. I tried to learn the secret 3346 2, 4 | which is comprised between Souakin, on the west coast, and 3347 1, 22 | means of thermometrical sounding-leads, the glasses often breaking 3348 1, 13 | It was composed of turtle soup made of the most delicate 3349 1, 19 | great speed. Her course was south-westerly, and in three days she had 3350 2, 8 | to be seen, forming the south-western point of the Spanish peninsula. 3351 1, 14 | bringing it back towards the southeast. ~I showed this little rock, 3352 1, 10 | value. These are my last souvenirs of that world which is dead 3353 1, 11 | pumps that are stored in spacious reservoirs, and which enable 3354 1, 13 | description; some banded spares, with variegated fins of 3355 1, 17 | passed, Captain Nemo was very sparing of his visits. I seldom 3356 1, 10 | provides me, but somewhat sparingly." ~At that moment Captain 3357 2, 2 | that bright and diapered sparkle which makes them so charming 3358 2, 8 | transparent glass the waves were sparkling. I looked. ~For half a mile 3359 2, 10 | of the rocks. There were sparrow hawks, with white breasts, 3360 2, 21 | was deadly pale, with a spasm at his heart. For an instant 3361 1, 23 | breathing was slow, and some spasmodic movements of the muscles 3362 1, 17 | It has a pulse, arteries, spasms; and I agree with the learned 3363 2, 3 | of the waves crisply like spats of melted lead. A little 3364 1, 16 | different objects with a spectral ring. At ten yards and a 3365 2, 22 | crossed, gliding like a spectre rather than walking. His 3366 1, 10 | clear, and his fluency of speech remarkable. Yet, I did not 3367 2, 7 | from a train going at full speed--an imprudent thing, to say 3368 2, 4 | Sea of Oman, at various speeds and at various depths. It 3369 1, 14 | our submarine hunt, we can spend but little air and but few 3370 2, 12 | that precious oil called spermaceti. The cachalot is a disagreeable 3371 1, 13 | of cubic miles, forming a spherical body of a diameter of sixty 3372 1, 10 | doubtless, OEdiphus regarded the Sphinx. ~After rather a long silence, 3373 1, 13 | length; Japanese salamanders, spider lampreys, serpents six feet 3374 2, 10 | sorts, lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and 3375 1, 1 | believers in the supernatural, spilled seas of ink during this 3376 2, 19 | resisting rock; it was a steel spindle, obedient and movable, without 3377 2, 18 | s beak on a mollusc! Its spindle-like body formed a fleshy mass 3378 1, 13 | the Nautilus was of that spindle-shape which caused it justly to 3379 1, 1 | enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, 3380 2, 14 | which is their element--the spine of these creatures is flexible; 3381 1, 11 | speed. Look! now we are spinning along with a uniform speed 3382 2, 1 | light sail. I saw their spiral-shaped and fluted shells, which 3383 2, 14 | horizon, rising by lengthened spirals up to the 21st of December. 3384 2, 19 | s isolation, his altered spirits, especially since the fight 3385 2, 21 | the fall of a heavy body, splashed the stern of the Nautilus, 3386 1, 10 | an immense drawing-room splendidly lighted. ~It was a vast, 3387 1, 21 | forgetting them to admire the splendours of the night in the tropics. 3388 2, 20 | They made another point and spliced it, and it was once more 3389 2, 13 | brittle mass like a wedge, and split it with frightful crackings. 3390 2, 5 | his hands resting on the spokes of the wheel. Outside, the 3391 1, 12 | cannot yield; it coheres spontaneously, and not by the closeness 3392 1, 8 | perfect taste. Each utensil--spoon, fork, knife, plate--had 3393 2, 6 | of Carpathos, one of the Sporades, by Captain Nemo reciting 3394 1, 7 | mirror-like surface was spotted with silvery rings. One 3395 2, 6 | were less exposed to the spray of the blades. ~"Now, Ned, 3396 2, 3 | could distinguish the arches springing capriciously from natural 3397 2, 13 | unknown point from whence springs every meridian of the globe. 3398 2, 10 | pieces of basalt, with a sprinkling of lava. I thought that 3399 1, 6 | obscured our view, and the best spy glasses could not pierce 3400 2, 19 | Captain Nemo, during the squalls, had taken his place on 3401 1, 5 | If, sir, you would not squint so much, you would see better!" ~ 3402 1, 16 | high, was watching me with squinting eyes, ready to spring upon 3403 1, 1 | and represented it on the stage. All kinds of stories were 3404 1, 21 | who placed his hand on the stair-rail, struck from behind by some 3405 1, 15 | veritable bounding shells), of staircases, and red helmet-shells, 3406 1, 1 | perforation was not of a common stamp and, after having been driven 3407 1, 22 | steadfastly, going and coming, stamping his foot and showing more 3408 1, 16 | tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent matter 3409 2, 14 | were little kingfishers and starfish studding the soil. But where 3410 2, 18 | words, spoken in French, startled me! I had a fellow-countryman 3411 2, 14 | Just so," said I. "But this statement is not mathematically correct, 3412 1, 12 | Professor, you must not confound statics with dynamics or you will 3413 1, 18 | Vanikoro, which had been stationed on the west coast of America. 3414 1, 10 | paintings. ~Some admirable statues in marble and bronze, after 3415 1, 21 | that these gentlemen could stave in walls on which the balls 3416 1, 22 | and examined the horizon steadfastly, going and coming, stamping 3417 2, 1 | which insured both its steadiness and its intensity. This 3418 1, 8 | filleted shark, and beef steaks from seadogs." ~"We shall 3419 1, 1 | the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, 3420 2, 5 | occupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson. 3421 2, 21 | watched the ship which was steaming towards us. I could not, 3422 1, 1 | Shannon, of the Royal Mail Steamship Company, sailing to windward 3423 2, 20 | the command of Admiral Van Stebel. On the 11th and 12th Prairal 3424 2, 1 | on the platform, when I steeped myself in the reviving air 3425 1, 6 | masts trembled down to their stepping holes, and the clouds of 3426 1, 17 | one instant I read on the stern--"The Florida, Sunderland." ~ 3427 1, 12 | fixed on the back of the stern-post, and with one wheel and 3428 2, 5 | It was a species of the Sterna nilotica, peculiar to Egypt; 3429 1, 8 | example. During that time, the steward--dumb, perhaps deaf--had 3430 1, 20 | what excellent game, and stewed, too! What a supply for 3431 2, 9 | often slipped upon this sticky carpet of sea weed, and 3432 1, 22 | his teeth were set; his stiff body, clenched fists, and 3433 2, 13 | the Nautilus went lower still--it went to the depth of 3434 2, 10 | gives it the appearance of a still-active volcano." ~"And we shall 3435 1, 5 | attract the attention and stimulate the apathy of the animal 3436 2, 18 | formidable pricking, like the sting of an ant, which was produced 3437 1, 18 | been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, 3438 2, 7 | waves at night to renew its stock of air; it was steered entirely 3439 1, 2 | was revictualled and well stocked with coal. ~Three hours 3440 1, 3 | utensils, coats, shirts, and stockings--without counting, as many 3441 1, 6 | left their engines, and the stokers their furnaces. ~The order 3442 1, 6 | to strike, the cetacean stole away with a rapidity that 3443 1, 15 | water-tight door, furnished with stopper plates, close upon us, and 3444 1, 11 | situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better 3445 1, 11 | powerful pumps that are stored in spacious reservoirs, 3446 2, 13 | into the reservoirs and storing it at high pressure. About 3447 1, 11 | dryness of the atmosphere; the storm-glass, the contents of which, 3448 2, 10 | perfect refuge from all storms." ~"Certainly," I replied, " 3449 2, 19 | watch-light, especially in the stormy weather that threatened 3450 2, 18 | for the imagination of the story-tellers. One cannot deny that poulps 3451 1, 19 | I do not despair of this stout Nautilus, as you do; and 3452 1, 3 | Conseil. ~I left Conseil to stow our trunks conveniently 3453 1, 6 | animal. Suddenly his arm straightened, and the harpoon was thrown; 3454 2, 15 | we watched and felt the straightening. The boards became horizontal 3455 1, 6 | itself, no doubt; for without straining itself, it made 19 3/10 3456 2, 14 | three cable-lengths from a strand over which reared a superb 3457 1, 22 | happened to recall us to the strangeness of our situation. ~On the 3458 2, 9 | waged. ~Thus, led by the strangest destiny, I was treading 3459 1, 10 | suddenly. The steward, nearly strangled, tottered out on a sign 3460 1, 7 | dive, I would not give two straws for my life." ~The Canadian 3461 2, 19 | fire. The atmosphere was streaked with vivid lightning. I 3462 2, 9 | walls and broad, deserted streets-- a perfect Pompeii escaped 3463 1, 15 | specimens of molluscs which strewed the ground by thousands, 3464 2, 10 | islands with which this sea is strewn--to vessels a simple sandbank-- 3465 2, 9 | along, climbing the rocks, striding over extended trunks, breaking 3466 2, 19 | York. I can describe this strife of the elements! for, instead 3467 2, 13 | they are made up of long strips. The temperature was very 3468 1, 2 | this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal ten times 3469 2, 3 | It is sheltered from the strongest winds; the sea is never 3470 2, 3 | decisive one. ~The shark's struggles agitated the water with 3471 1, 6 | in the American navy. A stubborn anger seized the crew; the 3472 1, 10 | distinguishes a painter's studio. ~{several sentences are 3473 1, 8 | and trousers, made of a stuff I did not know. I hastened 3474 1, 20 | they are in the habit of stuffing their crops, flavours their 3475 1, 18 | seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these 3476 2, 14 | or more steady, did not stumble, and helped me up, saying: ~" 3477 2, 14 | blackish rocks, amid unforeseen stumbles, and over stones which the 3478 1, 17 | most some few hours. Three stumps of masts, broken off about 3479 2, 11 | like a balloon, rising with stunning rapidity, and cutting the 3480 1, 6 | We gasped for breath. Stupefaction more than fear made us dumb 3481 2, 21 | without speaking. A deep stupor had taken hold of my mind: 3482 2, 10 | arrived at the foot of some sturdy dragon-trees, which had 3483 1, 1 | terrible "Moby Dick" of sub-arctic regions, to the immense 3484 2, 20 | his own fortune, set a new subscription on foot, which was at once 3485 1, 12 | Lincoln. Besides, I use subsidiary reservoirs only to attain 3486 2, 10 | bread-fruit' has been substituted for `artocarpus' in this 3487 2, 5 | and saw some magnificent substructures of coral, zoophytes, seaweed, 3488 2, 10 | polished by the action of the subterraneous fires, shone resplendent 3489 2, 10 | a mountainous region was succeeding the long plains; and accordingly, 3490 2, 13 | possibility--I should say the success-- of this attempt. That which 3491 2, 9 | mind, over-excited by the succession of wonders continually passing 3492 2, 18 | in two. I rushed to his succour. But Captain Nemo was before 3493 2, 10 | shall be able to offer you a succulent cake." ~{`bread-fruit' has 3494 2, 16 | was Captain Nemo? Had he succumbed? Were his companions dead 3495 2, 14 | over his family, the mother suckling her little ones, some already 3496 2, 18 | be torn from its powerful suction. Seven of the eight arms 3497 2, 4 | work and which would have sufficed to make a reign illustrious, 3498 1, 23 | There was both contusion and suffusion of the brain. His breathing 3499 1, 5 | not enough water for him! suggested the greater part of the 3500 1, 18 | Marquesas. ~One day, when I was suggesting this theory to Captain Nemo, 3501 2, 21 | reply to the Canadian's suggestion, but continued watching 3502 1, 2 | theories, rejecting all other suggestions, it becomes necessary to 3503 1, 20 | And," I added, "this bird, suitably prepared, is worth knife 3504 2, 1 | formidable apparatus not only suited his instinct of freedom, 3505 1, 12 | or rises diagonally as it suits me. And even if I wish to