Chapter
1 VII | including twenty-five gallons of water in another receptacle.~The
2 VII | 386 "~ Water..............................
3 VIII | screw, began to plough the water toward the mouth of the
4 IX | way. Besides, there’s no water there, and you have to carry
5 IX | infinitely less dense than water, in which the ship is only
6 X | about twenty-five gallons of water, to which I add a few drops
7 X | powerful Buntzen battery. Water, as you know, consists of
8 X | the decomposition of the water do really commingle. The
9 X | solely the vapor or steam of water. I have, therefore, provided
10 X | exact figures: 25 gallons of water, separated into its constituent
11 X | my twenty-five gallons of water represent six hundred and
12 X | to replenish my stock of water on the way, my trip might
13 XI | which the decomposition of water was effected by means of
14 XI | and sixty-six gallons of water. This operation commenced
15 XI | in the car. The supply of water was procured at Zanzibar.
16 XIV | Jihoue-la-Mkoa.—A Supply of Water.—Arrival at Kazeh.~The country,
17 XIV | torrent where some pools of water had lodged. The graceful
18 XIV | going to renew the supply of water necessary for my cylinder,
19 XIV | village; got his stock of water, and returned in less than
20 XIV | inspires a degree of fear.~The water was got aboard without trouble,
21 XVI | soil, and those scattered water supplies will be gathered
22 XVI | ray of light in the dull water disclosed a succession of
23 XVI | the earth. We have enough water for the cylinder, and our
24 XVI | those clouds dissolve in water, and the wind is let loose!”
25 XVII | to replenish our stock of water. Who knows but we may be
26 XVII | got a can of pure, fresh water from a neighboring streamlet.~
27 XVII | to be replenished but the water.~The pipes and spiral seemed
28 XVIII | the lake.~This sheet of water was christened Uyanza Victoria,
29 XVIII | must have great depth of water. Only one or two rude boats
30 XVIII | our own! And this drop of water now gliding away beneath
31 XVIII | this mysterious river. The water foamed as it fell in rapids
32 XVIII | the soil, delicate jets of water scattering in all directions,
33 XX | with numerous streams of water, bearing toward the east.
34 XXI | the decomposition of the water, and, searching in his travelling-sack,
35 XXII | nearly his whole stock of water to refresh his burning limbs.
36 XXIII | barren ravines; not a drop of water on those parched crests;
37 XXIII | before him for a little water—for he had to replace what
38 XXIV | threatened with a lack of water.”~“But we’ll find some,”
39 XXIV | with a single spring of water. Occupied with these thoughts,
40 XXIV | there had been no lack of water! But, there remained only
41 XXIV | during which we must find water, at all hazards. I have
42 XXIV | their evening meal, the water was strictly measured out,
43 XXIV | existence of a vast stretch of water in the centre of Africa.
44 XXIV | consume a large quantity of water, a thing that had now become
45 XXIV | require an expenditure of water to put it in motion, for,
46 XXIV | his forehead.~“If we had water, this heat would be of service
47 XXIV | But, the hundred pounds of water that we threw overboard
48 XXIV | get desperate. We’ll find water; mind, I tell you so.”~The
49 XXIV | could replenish our stock of water. But, what we want now,
50 XXIV | cylinder, and two pints of water out of the remaining eight
51 XXV | gas, and, consequently, of water, to little purpose; but,
52 XXV | said, over and over again, “water! water! and we are saved;
53 XXV | and over again, “water! water! and we are saved; for if
54 XXV | the pleasure of drinking water, I should agree on condition
55 XXV | spectacle! There’s not a drop of water here!”~“No, Dick, as well
56 XXVI | either a well or a spring of water, God alone knows what will
57 XXVI | natives. Scarcely two pints of water remained, and that was heated.
58 XXVI | with them. Two pints of water in the midst of the desert!~
59 XXVI | better to have kept the water that he had decomposed in
60 XXVI | region, when there was no water to be had where they were?
61 XXVI | yet those two gallons of water, expended in vain, would
62 XXVI | too, while retaining the water, he might have ascended
63 XXVI | length the feeding-supply of water gave out; the cylinder was
64 XXVI | A mouthful of scalding water from their little store
65 XXVI | remained only half a pint of water, and this the doctor put
66 XXVI | provisions enough, and, with water, we could wait a month without
67 XXVI | travellers, deprived of water in this torrid heat, began
68 XXVII | Hallucinations.—The Last Drops of Water.—Nights of Despair.—An Attempt
69 XXVII | remained a few drops of water. Each of them knew this,
70 XXVII | full of clear and limpid water; and, more than once, he
71 XXVII | it’s nothing but salt water!”~Then, while Ferguson and
72 XXVII | drain the last few drops of water that had been kept in reserve.
73 XXVII | heart-rending cry close beside him—“Water! water!”~It was Kennedy,
74 XXVII | close beside him—“Water! water!”~It was Kennedy, who had
75 XXVII | surface of this sandy ocean.~“Water! we’ll find water there!”
76 XXVII | ocean.~“Water! we’ll find water there!” said the doctor.~
77 XXVII | flask full of sparkling water to his master.~To carry
78 XXVIII | culinary combinations, using water all the time with the most
79 XXVIII | Dr. Ferguson.~“So little water, you mean, doctor,” interposed
80 XXVIII | longer than those deprived of water.”~“I believe it. Besides,
81 XXVIII | nearly perishing for want of water, they would, at last, have
82 XXVIII | him his choice between the water and the gold. Joe hesitated
83 XIX | as they frolicked in the water, and lamantines, twelve
84 XXX | Well, we’ve no lack of water, nor the desert to fear,
85 XXXI | Shari River.—Lake Tchad.—The Water of the Lake.—The Hippopotamus.—
86 XXXI | Is it a broad sheet of water?” asked Kennedy.~“Somewhat,
87 XXXI | over a spacious sheet of water.”~“After all, though, I
88 XXXI | that interior expanse of water to which only Denham’s and
89 XXXI | over this placid sheet of water, and toward the north the
90 XXXI | determining the character of the water, which was long believed
91 XXXI | drew it up half filled. The water was then tasted and found
92 XXXI | question as to what kind of water there is in Lake Tchad.
93 XXXII | over this vast expanse of water; but about one o’clock,
94 XXXIII | lake. The vast stretch of water broadened away from the
95 XXXIII | passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories,
96 XXXIII | aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds
97 XXXIII | above that vast sheet of water throughout the day. Joe
98 XXXIII | banks; we’ll search the water’s edge, for Joe will assuredly
99 XXXIII | balloon, would plunge into the water and regain their islands
100 XXXV | already risen far above the water, still rapidly ascending
101 XXXV | again to the top of the water, took breath and dived once
102 XXXV | was striking out under the water as noiselessly as possible
103 XXXV | impunity into sheets of water infested with crocodiles
104 XXXV | long this dampness became water, and that water gained so
105 XXXV | dampness became water, and that water gained so rapidly that it
106 XXXVIII| prudently renewed his stock of water, having feared that he should
107 XXXVIII| and whoever tries to draw water from it, feels himself repulsed
108 XLI | Let us empty our tank of water,” said the doctor, “and
109 XLI | feet more.~The stock of water for the cylinder was also
110 XLII | the decomposition of the water was effected. The united
111 XLIII | along its broad mass of water, while the farther bank,
112 XLIII | Frenchmen rushed into the water and caught the three aeronauts
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