Chapter

 1 XXIII  |         for ballast, instead of sand?”~“Very good! I consent,”
 2 XXIV   |      the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and
 3 XXIV   |       ere long, an immensity of sand would cover the whole of
 4 XXIV   |     against the invasion of the sand, and the huge rocks, that
 5 XXIV   |        soon again became coarse sand, and finally impalpable
 6 XXV    |      Look at that vast reach of sand! What a strange spectacle!
 7 XXV    |  against the vast background of sand, and soon was able to declare
 8 XXV    |      fallen one by one upon the sand; the stronger, having at
 9 XXV    |      into the car a quantity of sand equal to their weight, and
10 XXV    |      into a parched and powdery sand—the very dryest of all sand,
11 XXV    |     sand—the very dryest of all sand, indeed—there was not one
12 XXVI   |         gently descended to the sand, in the very place that
13 XXVI   |       an equivalent quantity of sand, and they got out of the
14 XXVI   |        and forty degrees!”~“The sand scorches me,” said the hunter, “
15 XXVI   |      the soil, not a hillock of sand, not a pebble, to relieve
16 XXVI   |       he sank, fainting, on the sand, alone, amid the eternal
17 XXVI   |      imprint of his feet in the sand, and had found him lying
18 XXVII  |   delirium. The vast expanse of sand appeared to him an immense
19 XXVII  |         dropped fainting on the sand.~What took place during
20 XXVII  |        of a tempest; billows of sand went tossing over each other
21 XXVII  |        while the grains of fine sand went gliding together with
22 XXVII  |        rapidly to throw out the sand that encumbered the car.~
23 XXVII  |  already pelted with showers of sand driven like hail by the
24 XXVII  |       the whirlwind ceased; the sand, falling again upon the
25 XXVIII |        much-prized ore upon the sand.~“The next people who come
26 XXVIII |          the latter grazing the sand. Had any portion of the
27 XXVIII |       the balloon beat upon the sand, at the risk of being torn
28 XIX    |         floating on that sea of sand, and announcing, as the
29 XXXIV  |     advanced into the desert of sand streaked with the long tracks
30 XXXIV  |       heads and necks along the sand, gave life to this solitude,
31 XXXIV  |         beneath an avalanche of sand. The camels, flung pell-mell
32 XXXIV  |       destruction.~Ere long the sand had accumulated in compact
33 XXXVI  |         steel, flung him on the sand, and continued his headlong
34 XXXVI  |    proceeded to pile up bags of sand in Kennedy’s arms.~“Hold
35 XXXVIII|  perfectly straight line on the sand.~Before starting, the doctor
36 XXXVIII|      difficulty over a waste of sand half in motion, and scarcely
37 XXXVIII| different shade of color in the sand, suffice to guide them with
38 XLIX   |      upon a vast plain of white sand, its acute angle directed
39 XLIX   |      threw out the last bags of sand. The Victoria rose higher,