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  1  Int      |                   INTRODUCTION~THE three books gathered under the
  2  Int      |       Verne’s attention during the three years following 1865. The
  3  Int      |        visiting minor islands.~The three great regions form the sub-titles
  4  Int      |         form the sub-titles of the three books which compose the
  5    1,    2|                     CHAPTER II THE THREE DOCUMENTS~ALL that could
  6    1,    2|           last he said: “There are three distinct documents here,
  7    1,    2|            of the same document in three different languages. Here
  8    1,    2|           the most complete of the three; but it is plain enough
  9    1,    2|           complete document of the three.”~“Your Lordship is right,”
 10    1,    2|            First of all, there are three very distinct things to
 11    1,    2|            going to the aid of her three sons cast away on a desert
 12    1,    3|          had scarcely been married three months, and his bride was
 13    1,    3|      written an appeal for help in three languages and committed
 14    1,    4|          all through Patagonia for three men—three Scotchmen; that
 15    1,    4|            Patagonia for three men—three Scotchmen; that the search
 16    1,    4|       Hurrah for the Lady of Luss. Three cheers for Lord and Lady
 17    1,    5|          sail out with the tide at three o’clock on the morning of
 18    1,    8|        Islands, you see, there are three groups to study, besides
 19    1,    8|       buttressed on volcanic rocks three hundred feet high. The appearance
 20    1,    9|         and tempest.~For the first three or four hours—that is to
 21    1,   10|          Geographical Society, was three years a prisoner among the
 22    1,   10|           Yes, Robert, we four and three of the sailors.”~“And does
 23    1,   11|        Lord Glenarvan consisted of three men and a boy. The captain
 24    1,   12|         And that would delay us?”~“Three days at least.”~Glenarvan
 25    1,   12|            not go much farther.~At three o’clock Glenarvan stopped
 26    1,   14|          he aimed at the bird, now three hundred feet above him in
 27    1,   16|        LAZO. The BOLAS consists of three balls fastened together
 28    1,   16|           They may be divided into three parts. The first extends
 29    1,   16|       brings a tempest which lasts three days, and may be always
 30    1,   16|          said; “but were there not three?”~“I don’t know,” said Thalcave.~“
 31    1,   16|            quite possible that the three men had become separated
 32    1,   18|        leave Robert behind. “If we three don’t manage to find out
 33    1,   18|      filthy, disgusting stuff. The three travelers then jumped into
 34    1,   18|          direct line of route.~The three horses went forward might
 35    1,   18|            after the Indian.~About three o’clock a white line appeared
 36    1,   18|         flocks, and was shut in on three sides. A more suitable place
 37    1,   18|          the night-comers, and the three hunters contented themselves
 38    1,   18|             When all was ready the three companions wrapped themselves
 39    1,   19|           hundreds, and what could three men do, even armed to the
 40    1,   20|           want witnesses.”~And all three went off towards the flamingos,
 41    1,   20|        middle of the day, however, three flying horsemen, well mounted
 42    1,   21|          were two prisoners.”~“No, three!” said Glenarvan.~“Two!”
 43    1,   21|      whether he had never heard of three English captives.~“Never,”
 44    1,   23|         this scaffolding rested on three great boughs which sprang
 45    1,   23|      minute they had descended the three stages of boughs, and landed
 46    1,   23|        theme was Captain Grant. In three days, should the water subside,
 47    1,   25|        rejoining the Major and his three sailors, Glenarvan warned
 48    1,   26|           this way for days. About three o’clock in the morning,
 49    2,    1|          bravely, and for the last three days had stood right out
 50    2,    1|      single trace in either of the three documents.”~“Not the slightest,”
 51    2,    2|       PHILADELPHIA, in 1857. These three events comprise the whole
 52    2,    3|            population consisted of three people, a Frenchman and
 53    2,    3|   Frenchman and two mulattoes, all three employed by the merchant
 54    2,    3|         The little house where the three solitary men lived was in
 55    2,    4|            the 7th of December, at three A. M., the DUNCAN lay puffing
 56    2,    4|           the Australian coast but three thousand miles’ distance.
 57    2,    4|     numerous. They are confined to three. Either Harry Grant and
 58    2,    5|          deck immediately with his three companions, and rejoined
 59    2,    6|      minutes, at Cape Catastrophe, three hundred miles from Cape
 60    2,    6|         appeared, apparently about three miles off.~“It certainly
 61    2,    7|         Indian Ocean and the Cape. Three weeks afterward, his vessel
 62    2,    9| philosophize. Paganel, who was all three combined, had to be and
 63    2,    9|         counting that, since it is three parts devoured.”~“Bravo,
 64    2,   10|     enormous column of smoke about three miles off, gradually overspreading
 65    2,   10|    interminable journey would last three months longer. His assistants
 66    2,   10|            parts showed a depth of three feet only, so that the wagon
 67    2,   11|    travelers reached a point about three miles from Maryborough.
 68    2,   11|      evening. About a quarter past three in the morning, twenty-five
 69    2,   11|        could not be worked. It was three hours before the authorities
 70    2,   14|           selection. At the end of three years the establishment
 71    2,   14|     Australia, there are more than three thousand stations, some
 72    2,   15|      transport were now reduced to three bullocks and four horses.~
 73    2,   15|     difficulty, in extricating the three bullocks. These courageous
 74    2,   16|       their gaze.~Two bullocks and three horses lay stretched on
 75    2,   17|          the quartermaster. Two or three insignificant facts, a hasty
 76    2,   17|          by which he could discern three men examining marks on the
 77    2,   17|         the ground, and one of the three was the blacksmith of Black
 78    2,   18|        brought it; I should think, three or four miles, at least.”~“
 79    2,   18|      already on the track, when at three hundred paces from the wagon
 80    2,   18|          to drag himself to within three hundred paces from the camp,
 81    2,   19|     Glenarvan refused. It would be three days before he could reach
 82    3,    1|   disappointed; ships were scarce. Three or four vessels, anchored
 83    3,    1|           or Melbourne. But of the three vessels anchored in the
 84    3,    1|            Will Halley took two or three turns on the poop, making
 85    3,    4|            knot the lead stopped.~“Three fathoms,” cried Wilson.~“
 86    3,    4|  passengers. It would have to make three trips at least, as it could
 87    3,    6|         would have accomplished in three hours. But with a raft allowance
 88    3,    6|      turned at ten o’clock, and by three they must either make the
 89    3,    6|            a distance of less than three miles.~A considerable swell
 90    3,    6|       almost at a stand-still, not three cables’ lengths from the
 91    3,    7|        steep hills, and covered by three miles of forts. The native
 92    3,    7|           men. General Cameron had three thousand volunteers at his
 93    3,    8|         halt could be made. Two or three days would then suffice
 94    3,    9|         feet long, five broad, and three deep; the prow raised like
 95    3,    9|     wrapped in their flax mantles. Three savage-looking dogs lay
 96    3,   11|           Maories believe that for three days after death the soul
 97    3,   11|           body, and therefore, for three times twenty-four hours,
 98    3,   11|        eyes off the prisoners.~The three prescribed days had elapsed
 99    3,   12|         half an hour they had gone three feet deep; they perceived
100    3,   12|         they arrive at the bottom, three pulls at the rope will be
101    3,   12|        grotto. A minute after, the three pulls at the cord informed
102    3,   12|          them.~The rope was shaken three times, and in his turn John
103    3,   12|      moment in a damp mist, and at three hundred feet below they
104    3,   13|          at night.~This lasted for three days; to the inquiry whether
105    3,   14|          Kara-Tete. And stay there three, four, even five days if
106    3,   15|          in the deepest gloom.~For three hours they walked on without
107    3,   15|          McNabbs and Robert killed three kiwis, which filled the
108    3,   15|           the journey. Only two or three occurrences of any importance
109    3,   15|       embrace the giant trunk.~For three days the little party made
110    3,   15|    suddenly stopped rowing.~He saw three canoes coming out from behind
111    3,   15|       fellows grew weaker, and the three pursuing boats began to
112    3,   15|          in two the nearest of the three native boats, while a loud
113    3,   16|   travelers who had left the yacht three months before, so full of
114    3,   19|          37th parallel, there were three men, shipwrecked Englishmen!
115    3,   20|        aloud at the sight of these three clasped together in a close,
116    3,   20|   multiplied and ran wild, and the three kingdoms of nature were
117    3,   20|      several bowls of milk, two or three roots of wild endive, and
118    3,   20|           of our exile only two or three vessels appeared on the
119    3,   20|          document. He pondered his three successive interpretations,
120    3,   20|          of safety, I had inclosed three documents in the bottle,
121    3,   20|        documents in the bottle, in three different languages. Which
122    3,   21|        Jacques Paganel, during his three days’ captivity among the