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 1    1,    4|         asleep, dreaming of happy days.~After they had retired.
 2    1,    7|         to stir for the first few days; and, moreover, I had been
 3    1,    7|        offer you, meantime, a few days’ hospitality. I only hope
 4    1,   10|          of Talcahuano, forty-two days from the time she had sailed
 5    1,   10|        straight course. In thirty days we shall have gone over
 6    1,   12|           would delay us?”~“Three days at least.”~Glenarvan listened
 7    1,   16|         tempest which lasts three days, and may be always foretold
 8    1,   16|         that is to say, about two days’ journey. Glenarvan kept
 9    1,   17|        less than an hour.~For two days they plodded steadily across
10    1,   20|   accomplished. It was twenty-two days since they left the Bay
11    1,   22|      delays should occur, in four days Glenarvan would rejoin the
12    1,   22|      temperature of the preceding days, hung in thick clouds, which
13    1,   23|         to last seven men for two days,” replied McNabbs.~“And
14    1,   23|           Captain Grant. In three days, should the water subside,
15    1,   24|  conscientiously for the last few days.~For a few minutes there
16    1,   26|          drifting in this way for days. About three o’clock in
17    1,   26|     November. He had taken thirty days to cross Chili, the Cordilleras,
18    2,    1|            and for the last three days had stood right out to sea,
19    2,    2|     Mangles hoped to clear in ten days, if east winds did not retard
20    2,    2|       making rapid progress. Five days after losing sight of Cape
21    2,    3|           north. In less than six days he cleared the thirteen
22    2,    4|         wind continue but a dozen days longer, and the sea remain
23    2,    4|           the BRITANNIA but a few days before her shipwreck. Here,
24    2,    4|           7th of June, only eight days after leaving the shores
25    2,    4|        was one evening, about six days after their leaving Amsterdam
26    2,    5|           ON THE INDIAN OCEAN~Two days after this conversation,
27    2,    5| Australian continent, and in four days might hope to see Cape Bernouilli
28    2,    5|       deceitful. For the last two days the barometer has been falling
29    2,    7|          the pumps, and for eight days the BRITANNIA was tossed
30    2,    9|            It was not above a two days’ march, and Ayrton reckoned
31    2,    9|       march of sixty miles in two days, the caravan reached the
32    2,   10|        the blacks were often long days in quest of him, before
33    2,   10|      could hold out for hours and days, but for weeks. The stock-keeper
34    2,   10|         without drink for several days, but when they were brought
35    2,   11|      might end in a delay of many days, and Glenarvan, impatient
36    2,   13|          accomplished. In fifteen days more, should their journey
37    2,   16|       said John, “in four or five days we shall reach Eden.”~“Four
38    2,   16|        reach Eden.”~“Four or five days!” repeated Ayrton, shaking
39    2,   16|         late.”~“Fifteen or twenty days to go seventy-five miles?”
40    2,   16|          difficulties, in fifteen days at most your Lordship can
41    2,   16|         only be an affair of four days. Allow the DUNCAN two days
42    2,   16|        days. Allow the DUNCAN two days more to get to the bay and
43    2,   16|         chief officer, and in six days I guarantee the DUNCAN shall
44    2,   17|         to the Snowy River in six days. Well, my Lord, what are
45    2,   18|                CHAPTER XVIII FOUR DAYS OF ANGUISH~THE rest of the
46    2,   18|        provisions. But before six days were over, the DUNCAN would
47    2,   18|           catch the horse. In two days I shall be on board the
48    2,   19|           was now at an end. Five days had elapsed since the departure
49    2,   19|          a delay of a day, or two days.”~“You are right, John,”
50    2,   19| provisions enough for a couple of days. The remainder was left
51    2,   19|        refused. It would be three days before he could reach Delegete,
52    2,   19|       what difference would a few days’ delay make?~“No, my friend,”
53    2,   19|          sure of food for several days.~The next day, the 24th,
54    2,   19|       vessels within the last few days.~No ship had touched the
55    2,   19|     execution of an order for ten days.~“I must know at all events
56    3,    1|      Zealand was only five or six days— the distance, in fact,
57    3,    2|         best of it. Happily, five days, or, at most, six, would
58    3,    2|         coasted along for several days, and on the 17th of December
59    3,    3|         the 31st of January, four days after starting, the MACQUARIE
60    3,    4|           the 2d of February, six days from starting, the MACQUARIE
61    3,    5|           ill. She had only a few days to live. The Jesuit inculcated
62    3,    7|        was only a matter of a few days. During this involuntary
63    3,    7|         with high palisades. Some days after Colonel Gold carried
64    3,    8|         Auckland; it was an eight days’ journey if they made ten
65    3,    8|       could be made. Two or three days would then suffice for the
66    3,   11|     native is tabooed for several days when his hair is cut; when
67    3,   11|    Maories believe that for three days after death the soul inhabits
68    3,   11|   prisoners.~The three prescribed days had elapsed since the death
69    3,   12|       jumped the barrier; for two days I hid in the bushes, to
70    3,   13|         they are mistaken. In two days we shall be out of their
71    3,   13|      night.~This lasted for three days; to the inquiry whether
72    3,   13|           ten persons for fifteen days, or the dead man forever.~
73    3,   13|       therefore provided for some days against hunger and thirst,
74    3,   14|      there three, four, even five days if necessary—that is to
75    3,   14|        about a hundred miles. Ten days’ march at ten miles a day,
76    3,   15|           barren region.~But four days at least must elapse before
77    3,   15|        was easily forded. For two days plains of low scrub succeeded
78    3,   15|        the giant trunk.~For three days the little party made their
79    3,   15|          the whole journey in ten days, but he did not foresee
80    3,   15|          quite worn out.~Two long days of walking were still to
81    3,   15|       feet at every step. For two days, they had to cut their way
82    3,   17|       only enough to last fifteen days longer at the outside. It
83    3,   19|        toward it immediately.~Two days later, at two o’clock, the
84    3,   20|      BRITANNIA, disabled by a six days’ storm, struck against the
85    3,   20|     precious seeds. The first few days were painful enough, but
86    3,   21|         the 19th of March, eleven days after leaving the island,
87    3,   21|           9th of May, fifty-three days from the time of leaving
88    3,   21|         Paganel, during his three days’ captivity among the Maories,