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4504 2, 11| serious conversation was not unpleasing.~The party crossed, in a 4505 3, 21| this memorable expedition, unprecedented in the annals of the Travelers’ 4506 3, 18| time.”~Glenarvan, quite unprepared for such a proposal, looked 4507 2, 17| This was the mystery to be unraveled, and the Major soon explained 4508 2, 15| after a wretched, heavy, unre-freshing sleep, the Major woke. His 4509 2, 11| unconquerable violence. A few unrecognizable bodies lay on the slope 4510 1, 7| your conduct throughout— my unreserved admiration. Let your yacht 4511 2, 1| our plan of search most unreservedly.”~“I do not deny it,” said 4512 1, 8| it which leaves nothing unsaid. He tells us that it comprises 4513 1, 22| to be content with this unsatisfactory reply, and went back to 4514 3, 14| inclosure, and that they were unseen by the savages.~At six o’ 4515 3, 5| own, and courageous, if unskillful sailors, your companions, 4516 3, 10| religious rites would be unsolemnized, and the bones that escaped 4517 3, 14| companions. They waited with unspeakable anxiety, wondering if they 4518 2, 7| about to utter remained unspoken.~Ayrton gave an account 4519 3, 18| ocean. I led you in this way unsuspectingly as far as the Snowy River. 4520 2, 12| been at work on his savage, untamed nature.~Lady Helena, whose 4521 3, 7| have rebelled at such an untoward incident; but what could 4522 2, 17| peaceful solitudes were untroubled by the presence of human 4523 3, 14| o’clock, the night being unusually dark, Glenarvan gave the 4524 2, 17| CHAPTER XVII THE PLOT UNVEILED~THE revelation of Tom Ayrton’ 4525 2, 17| at the Wimerra River, his unwillingness to cross towns and villages, 4526 3, 13| Glenarvan, “and it is a very unwise practice to give firearms 4527 3, 9| before, the little band had unwittingly, owing to the mist, encamped 4528 3, 19| were due to some submarine upheaval, and consequently it may 4529 1, 19| and reared himself bolt upright on his hind legs, and made 4530 1, 25| that was crawling over the upturned roots, and coming toward 4531 2, 6| out-distanced by a young urchin of twelve. However, he was 4532 2, 17| I mean that our need is urgent, and that since we cannot 4533 2, 13| which resembles an inverted urn.~Under this leafy dome, 4534 3, 11| stomach according to the Maori usage; then came the funeral, 4535 3, 11| attendants whom the pitiless usages of war had reduced to slavery. 4536 1, 8| you can employ your time usefully. This archipelago is still 4537 1, 20| even the blood of a bird uselessly. The shot made the whole 4538 1, 18| even to the famous Highland USQUEBAUGH, or whisky.~The horses had 4539 1, 23| outcries against this flagrant usurpation of their domicile. These 4540 1, 24| never make me admit the utility of wild beasts. What good 4541 1, 5| cheeks, and almost choked her utterance. The vast assembly dispersed 4542 2, 2| occupied by M. Olbinett, who vacated it for the expected guest. 4543 2, 8| which the worthy Irishman valued at least as much as his 4544 3, 14| cone, because the safety valve of Tangariro was enough 4545 1, 13| such insufficient safety valves for the subterranean vapors, 4546 3, 20| however. Were we to see it vanish from our eyes?~“I hesitated 4547 3, 10| scraped, polished, even varnished, and then deposited in the “ 4548 3, 20| and found means always to vary the formula of introduction, 4549 2, 4| In that same year, Louis Vas de Torres, the second in 4550 1, 21| the Poyuches, was Marco Vazello. The Frenchman was dragged 4551 3, 4| The wind freshened, and veering a point more to the westward, 4552 3, 5| Maories become members of the Vegetarian Association they will eat 4553 3, 8| road, practicable for the vehicles which go almost across the 4554 3, 9| Waikato, with extraordinary velocity.~In the center of this long 4555 1, 5| cathedral of the city. This venerable edifice, so marvelously 4556 1, 18| be grown up, my child, to venerate him,” replied Glenarvan, 4557 3, 9| aware of the feelings of veneration with which the natives regard 4558 3, 20| degrees 11’ de latitude. Venes a leur secours, ou ils sont 4559 3, 18| degrees 11’ de LATItude. Venex a leur secours, ou ils sont 4560 3, 3| useless. Every European who ventures into these fatal districts 4561 2, 18| away our chance, before venturing to this bridge, we ought 4562 2, 7| thought of doubting either the veracity or identity of the quartermaster; 4563 3, 7| chief, named Hihi, a real Vercingetorix, so that you need not be 4564 3, 7| civilized countries on the verge of revolution. The English 4565 3, 18| question, his object being to verify the dates of the BRITANNIA.~“ 4566 3, 8| professional pleasure in verifying the minutest details.~The 4567 3, 14| The intrepid la-borers, veritable Cyclops handling Earth’s 4568 2, 12| himself. An Australian well versed in geography. This was marvelous, 4569 2, 4| they actually give that version of it in England? But it 4570 1, 12| physical powers failed, and vertigo, that terrible malady in 4571 2, 12| Paganel found a book in his vest pocket, which turned out 4572 3, 18| Glenarvan, “that—”~“That vestiges of the wreck might be found; 4573 3, 11| effect of the old royal “veto.”~If an object is tabooed, 4574 2, 17| In all this succession of vexations, it must be said the document 4575 1, 25| whole atmosphere seemed to vibrate with rapid oscillations.~ 4576 3, 10| subterranean fires. The ground vibrates from the agitation of the 4577 3, 14| gradually raised it, the vibrations under foot became more distinct. 4578 2, 6| is their own idleness and vice and want of commonsense. 4579 1, 22| torrents of rain. Moreover, the vicinity of the Atlantic, and the 4580 2, 7| them bravely and come off victor.~“You are one of the shipwrecked 4581 1, 10| ill-treatment, but came off victorious at last. A European is a 4582 1, 13| or herds of llamas and vicunas? Glenarvan, McNabbs, Robert, 4583 1, 6| London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary 4584 3, 12| been said that between a vigilant jailer and a prisoner who 4585 3, 4| very waves, playing the vile part of a pirate! It is 4586 3, 18| by the two sailors.~“That villain might have been a man,” 4587 1, 20| the eye has a particularly villainous aspect.”~No physiognomist 4588 2, 17| months, for doing deeds of villainy and crime.~But how had McNabbs 4589 1, 12| Just so.”~“And that of Villarica is the other.”~“Precisely.”~“ 4590 3, 11| even if the god delayed the vindication of his power, the priests 4591 3, 17| exposing him again to the vindictiveness of the crew.~The good and 4592 3, 13| on the warm ground, still violating with the violence of the 4593 3, 14| personally to chastise the violators of the taboo.~At eight o’ 4594 2, 10| eighteen inches in length. The violet and purple tints of his 4595 1, 17| most dangerous species of viper, the bite of which kills 4596 1, 26| ocean was sensibly felt. The VIRAZON, a peculiar wind, which 4597 2, 9| both linen and souls. The virtue of the climate must have 4598 1, 1| sticking fast in one of the viscera.~“I say! what’s this?” he 4599 1, 21| difficulty, from the living vise in which it was held, a 4600 1, 13| cruel bondage. As these visions passed rapidly through his 4601 2, 2| compliments on his mythological visitants, and so did the Major, though 4602 2, 9| reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; 4603 1, 22| that the RIOS Grande and Vivarota, into which the water from 4604 2, 10| cries, and whistles, and vo-ciferations.~Presently a man came out 4605 3, 10| their fists, howling and vociferating. Some English words that 4606 3, 4| he sought to question the voiceless waters; he longed to tear 4607 1, 6| understanding what he meant for the voluble stranger kept on talking 4608 1, 15| he said, handing him a volume in a very ragged condition, 4609 1, 18| tolerable good trim, and I volunteer to accompany Thalcave.”~“ 4610 3, 7| Cameron had three thousand volunteers at his disposal, and they 4611 1, 13| some enormous monster, and vomited red smoke, mingled with 4612 1, 24| matelots et le Capitaine Grant vont essayer d’aborder,’ or ‘ 4613 2, 15| shipwreck occurred.~McNabbs voted therefore for the continuation 4614 2, 7| you may trust Ayrton; I vouch for his being an honest 4615 2, 6| who scent a wreck as the vultures do a dead body, would have 4616 2, 11| The blacksmith claimed his wage, and went off without uttering 4617 2, 4| CHAPTER IV A WAGER AND HOW DECIDED~ON the 7th 4618 3, 11| not forgotten that the “Waidoua,” the spirit of the dead, 4619 1, 1| of the salt water! This waif had been tossing about in 4620 3, 7| the famous tribe of the Waikatos, who defend their lands 4621 1, 22| dashed up the water to their waists at every step.~In this drenching, 4622 3, 15| river which answered to the Wakari on Paganel’s map, and was 4623 1, 13| in a continual state of wakefulness. His thoughts reverted involuntarily 4624 2, 15| about him, was going to waken Paganel, that he might see 4625 2, 12| clock, when the sunshine wakened the sleepers, they looked 4626 2, 12| traveling alone.”~“He is waking up!” said Mary.~And so he 4627 1, 6| on it as if it had been a walking-stick. Of course, his weight shut 4628 1, 9| Giraudais, Bougainville, Wallis, and Carteret, declared 4629 1, 5| marvelously described by Walter Scott, remains intact amid 4630 2, 18| Prudence forbade him to wander from the camp. He returned 4631 3, 1| gallop toward Eden.~The wanderers passed their last evening 4632 1, 19| burn out and could only ward off the attacks of wild 4633 3, 12| jailers— not an indifferent warder; the prisoners were not 4634 3, 7| Zealanders. Their mode of warfare is of the guerilla type; 4635 2, 12| his heart, and felt his warmer sympathy awakened for the 4636 2, 3| Paganel spoke with such warmth that even the Major had 4637 2, 5| stern. The noise of the warring elements was so great that 4638 3, 5| seasons. Then begin the great wars, and whole tribes are served 4639 2, 19| his gang, so, instead of wasting time in empty words, the 4640 2, 12| No one, madam; but God watches over children and never 4641 1, 13| walls might be none too water-tight in the rainy season, at 4642 1, 18| TERU-TERU; yellow rays, and waterfowl with magnificent green plumage, 4643 1, 7| Schlaginweit Brothers; and Colonels Waugh and Webb, and Hodgson; and 4644 3, 10| Glenarvan, with the other he waved off the crowd who were rushing 4645 3, 8| salute addressed to the way-worn travelers.~Glenarvan and 4646 2, 1| I have no intention of weakening the arguments of my friend 4647 3, 15| poor exhausted fellows grew weaker, and the three pursuing 4648 3, 5| then it will take years to wean them from Maori flesh, which 4649 3, 4| THE “MACQUARIE”~STILL this wearisome voyage dragged on. On the 4650 3, 8| allusion to the white cravat it wears over its black, cassock-like 4651 2, 5| he had such faith in his weather-glass, that he took every precaution 4652 1, 7| and Colonels Waugh and Webb, and Hodgson; and Huc and 4653 3, 21| were saved. John Mangles wedded Mary Grant in the old cathedral 4654 1, 22| of foam; a liquid mass, weighing several millions of tons, 4655 2, 1| I consider them wise and weighty, and deserving our attention, 4656 1, 25| sailors, investing them with a weird, spectral aspect.~However, 4657 3, 20| island. Several acres of well-cultivated land were stocked with vegetables 4658 2, 6| themselves into the ocean by well-frequented routes, and their mouths 4659 3, 3| persuasion, in calming their well-grounded indignation.~Still, the 4660 2, 19| drove rapidly along over a well-kept road. They did not lose 4661 1, 26| loud, joyful hurrah! when a well-known whistle was heard. The gallop 4662 1, 15| another, always finding a well-spread table for their four-footed 4663 3, 1| question or answer. John’s well-tried zeal and intelligence were 4664 3, 1| They remembered how full of well-warranted hope they had been at Cape 4665 2, 19| in sight in the county of Wellesley, and fifty miles from Twofold 4666 1, 17| Pampas they generally dig wells, and find water a few feet 4667 3, 4| veering a point more to the westward, blew right for the New 4668 3, 6| carried to land without wetting a fold of their dresses, 4669 2, 19| the grass seemed made of whalebone. It was a tangle of darts, 4670 2, 3| seal-fishers, and now and then a whaler, the crews of which are 4671 2, 2| Tristan d’Acunha.~Several whaling vessels were lying quietly 4672 | Whereupon 4673 3, 15| and there was no water wherewith to quench it.~The sufferings 4674 3, 12| fell at your feet. My Lord, whichever of us survives the other 4675 1, 11| of better work, Paganel whiled away the time along the 4676 1, 20| cloths and plaited leather whips.”~“And what does Thalcave 4677 2, 10| the shape of cries, and whistles, and vo-ciferations.~Presently 4678 1, 24| sportsmen—for Paganel was every whit as much a child as Robert. 4679 3, 10| teeth of the wild dog would whiten without burial on the field 4680 3, 12| the first light of dawn whitened the eastern sky, stretched 4681 2, 10| his neck, and the dazzling whiteness of his throat, and the bright 4682 1, 26| bones of his fathers were whitening, and he knew the religious 4683 2, 9| the pure, dry atmosphere whitens everything rapidly, both 4684 3, 5| it so well, because the whites eat salt with their food, 4685 3, 13| which consisted merely of whitish silicious tufa.~“That may 4686 3, 20| vegetables besides, gave wholesome variety to our daily fare. 4687 2, 17| said Lady Helena, “the wicked wretch had got work on Paddy 4688 1, 4| speaking, he gazed at her with wide-open eyes, only knowing now how 4689 2, 10| themselves under the shade of a wide-spreading gum-tree, and listened to 4690 3, 12| but seized the hand that wielded it.~It was the hand of a 4691 1, 14| ear to the heart.~But a wilder cry of joy never broke from 4692 2, 14| CHAPTER XIV WEALTH IN THE WILDERNESS~ON January 6, at 7 A. M., 4693 2, 15| had retained its primitive wildness. The sun went down, and 4694 3, 19| situation, and expressed his willingness to live there apart from 4695 1, 17| entirely under water, where the willows grew, and a plant called 4696 3, 17| what arguments they used to win the secret from the convict, 4697 2, 12| completely. Indeed, the wind-up of the conversation converted 4698 1, 12| pierced through the white winding-sheet like the bones of a skeleton; 4699 3, 6| the cable, that without a windlass it was impossible to detach 4700 2, 6| off.~“It certainly is a windmill,” said Paganel, after examining 4701 1, 15| throwing myself out of the window instead of my cigar!”~To 4702 2, 14| quarter of an hour. The wines and viands were of the finest 4703 2, 10| the English colonies. This winged creature was five feet high, 4704 3, 15| present existence of the wingless giants of New Zealand.~These 4705 1, 8| Lady Helena, in her most winning tone.~“Madam, my mission?”~“ 4706 1, 26| generally the heart that wins the mastery. The laird of 4707 1, 16| the geographer left off, wiped his streaming face, and 4708 3, 4| It would have been the wisest plan to prepare for emergency 4709 3, 10| Helena the attacks of these witches, walked straight up to Kai-Koumou, 4710 1, 6| before.~He was a tall, thin, withered-looking man, about forty years of 4711 1, 5| a touching ceremony was witnessed by the good people of Glasgow. 4712 2, 5| redoubles its violence, and woe to the bark that follows. 4713 1, 7| on the poop, looking very woebegone and crestfallen. He had 4714 2, 16| transported myself,” said Paganel, woefully.~“I think so,” said Glenarvan.~ 4715 1, 18| called TINAMOUS; black wood-hens; a species of plover, called 4716 1, 13| and I’ll go out and turn woodcutter.”~“Wilson and I will go 4717 2, 15| and great trees where the woodman’s ax was as yet unknown, 4718 1, 15| tendons, and with the silky wool turned up on the edge. Under 4719 2, 11| which the sleeve of an old woolen shirt could not conceal. 4720 1, 11| tanned on one side and woolly on the other, fastened by 4721 2, 7| fellow and a good~V. IV Verne worker; and as long as he pleases, 4722 3, 14| disencumbered opening.~The workers used as levers some posts 4723 2, 7| as require more skilful workmanship than we have on board. One 4724 2, 6| to require more skilful workmen than could be found in Adelaide.~ 4725 1, 7| of the Society, and his world-wide correspondence, gave him 4726 3, 8| satisfaction on larvae, insects, worms or seeds. This bird is peculiar 4727 1, 19| soft couch of lucerne. The worn-out horses had stretched themselves 4728 1, 17| overtake them with such wornout horses.~“The cowards!” exclaimed 4729 2, 17| Paganel’s mind. He was always worrying himself about each word, 4730 1, 14| Andes, and was formerly worshiped by the Incas. It attains 4731 2, 4| faithful servant and fervent worshiper! Two hundred and fifty-eight 4732 2, 14| dared to fire, for fear of wounding the child.~But John Mangles 4733 3, 9| figure, draped in a large mat woven of “phormium” trimmed with 4734 1, 25| friends, and advise them to wrap themselves up in their philosophy 4735 1, 14| all they had were sundry wraps and fire-arms, and a little 4736 2, 17| the noisy fusillade. A few wreaths of white smoke were still 4737 3, 19| moving lights, like the wreckers on the Cornish coast in 4738 1, 9| Terra del Fuego side, a few wretched-looking creatures were wandering 4739 3, 17| Glenarvan.~Ayrton hesitated, the wrinkles in his forehead deepened, 4740 1, 25| branch, as thick as a man’s wrist, and surrounded with black 4741 2, 11| observed that the flesh of his wrists was deeply furrowed, showing 4742 2, 16| pronounces it AYRTON, but he writes it Ben Joyce!”~ 4743 1, 25| shrivel, and crack, and writhe in the flame like living 4744 2, 9| called Australia Felix.~“Wrongly named!” he continued. “It 4745 3, 4| wretched man tore his hair and wrung his hands. His whole thought 4746 2, 10| written, if not commended by Xenophon himself. As long as the 4747 1, 22| CHAPTER XXII THE FLOOD~A DISTANCE of 4748 1, 23| CHAPTER XXIII A SINGULAR ABODE~THE tree 4749 1, 24| CHAPTER XXIV PAGANEL’S DISCLOSURE~PROFOUND 4750 1, 25| CHAPTER XXV BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER~BEFORE 4751 1, 26| CHAPTER XXVI THE RETURN ON BOARD~FOR 4752 3, 18| le Capitaine Grant ont pu y ABORDER. La CONTINUellement 4753 2, 2| with the Royal Thames Club yachts.~Next day, the ocean appeared 4754 2, 6| Australia—the Murray, the Yarrow, the Torrens, the Darling— 4755 1, 26| limbs, and stretching and yawning as most people do when roused 4756 3, 2| Tavai-Pouna-Mou, “the whale that yields the green-stones.”~Abel 4757 1, 6| Petersburg, Vienna, and New York; Honorary Member of the 4758 1, 14| that one the feeblest and youngest, the child of the party, 4759 1, 6| aloft among the rigging. A youngster like that laughs at sea-sickness. 4760 | yourselves 4761 1, 10| Paganel. “Travels form the youthful mind. Yes, Robert, we four 4762 3, 10| old men, full grown men, youths; the former were calm, but 4763 1, 11| it.~“It is the route from Yumbel to Los Angeles,” said Paganel.~ 4764 2, 4| navigators increased. In 1618, Zeachen discovered the northern 4765 3, 18| les cotes de la Nouvelle ZELANDE—in English Zealand. Deux 4766 3, 8| of the Astrolabe and the Zelee, Dumont d’Urville was principally 4767 1, 13| thermometer, was ten degrees below zero. Besides, there was a sort 4768 2, 19| However, by pursuing a zigzag course, and overcoming it 4769 1, 25| directions, making coralliform zigzags, and threw out wonderful 4770 1, 20| the Andes to sell their zorillo cloths and plaited leather