Chapter
1 III | gracefully amidst the white water lilies, we returned to the
2 VI | globe is neither gas nor water, nor any of the heaviest
3 VI | mere contact with air and water; these metals kindled when
4 XI | the only liquid, and of water we took none; but we had
5 XII | height, it should be slack water. Then the ebb and flow have
6 XIII | had a thin milk mixed with water, called in this country ‘
7 XIV | leathern bottle full of water, which, with that in our
8 XIV | would ensure us a supply of water for eight days.~It was nine
9 XVII | elementary bases of metals with water. I repudiate the notion
10 XVIII | washed down with a draught of water mingled with a little gin.~
11 XVIII | troubled me, our supply of water was half consumed. My uncle
12 XVIII | anxious about it; we have only water enough for five days.”~“
13 XIX | What danger?”~“The want of water.”~“Well, Axel, we will put
14 XX | ourselves. Our provision of water could not last more than
15 XX | swallowed down the few drops of water rationed out to me. One
16 XX | to-morrow we shall have no water.” “Nor courage either?”
17 XXI | As I had foretold, the water failed entirely by the end
18 XXI | pleasure! a slender sip of water came to moisten my burning
19 XXI | he said, “a draught of water; but it is the very last —
20 XXI | and I kept my last drop of water to reanimate you.”~“Thank
21 XXI | thing to do. We have no water; we must go back.”~While
22 XXI | energy in these few drops of water?”~“Courage?”~“I see you
23 XXI | uncle boldly.~“The want of water,” he said, “is the only
24 XXI | I have not met with the water that we want, I swear to
25 XXII | CHAPTER XXII.~TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER~This time the descent commenced
26 XXII | the evening. No signs of water had yet appeared. I was
27 XXIII | CHAPTER XXIII.~WATER DISCOVERED~For a whole hour
28 XXIII | the word he had uttered.~“Water! water!” I cried, clapping
29 XXIII | he had uttered.~“Water! water!” I cried, clapping my hands
30 XXIII | gesticulating like a madman.~“Water!” repeated my uncle. “Hvar?”
31 XXIII | any means of procuring the water, I gave way to a movement
32 XXIII | was heard, and a jet of water spurted out with violence
33 XXIII | withdrew them in haste, for the water was scalding hot.~“The water
34 XXIII | water was scalding hot.~“The water is at the boiling point,”
35 XXIII | pleasure? But where was this water from? No matter. It was
36 XXIII | from? No matter. It was water; and though still warm,
37 XXIII | delicious!”~“Of course it is, water should be, found six miles
38 XXIII | we must not lose this water.”~“What is the use of troubling
39 XXIII | be sure; let us fill the water bottle and our flasks, and
40 XXIII | the higher body of this water is at a considerable elevation.
41 XXIII | uncle. “If this column of water is 32,000 feet high — that
42 XXIII | Well, let us allow the water to run on. It will flow
43 XXIV | this excellent chalybeate water. I felt wonderfully stronger,
44 XXV | distance from its spring the water was scarcely tepid, and
45 XXV | last acquire the density of water?”~“Of course, under a pressure
46 XXX | discoverer.”~A vast sheet of water, the commencement of a lake
47 XXXI | little household; he had water and fire at his disposal,
48 XXXI | attraction? This mass of water cannot escape the general
49 XXXII | a good quantity of fresh water from the rocks around, all
50 XXXIII| Saknussemm meet this sheet of water? Did he cross it? Has not
51 XXXIII| regions on the surface of the water indicate some commotion
52 XXXIII| is throwing out air and water through his blowers.”~And
53 XXXIII| pressure of the great volume of water in the depths it inhabits.
54 XXXIII| whirlpool eddying in the water. Several minutes pass by
55 XXXIII| the fight goes on under water.~All at once an enormous
56 XXXIII| worm that you tread on. The water is splashed for a long way
57 XXXIV | produced by a mass of falling water, the current must needs
58 XXXIV | the least, the column of water driven through its blowers
59 XXXIV | higher mounts the jet of water. What monster can possibly
60 XXXIV | with such a quantity of water, and spurt it up so continuously?~
61 XXXIV | its sides. The column of water thrown up to a height of
62 XXXIV | laugh.~“But that column of water?”~“Geyser,“ said Hans.~“
63 XXXIV | thermometer into the boiling water. It marks an intense heat
64 XXXIV | boiling point; therefore this water issues from an ardent furnace,
65 XXXIV | throws up its column of water with variable force: sometimes
66 XXXV | piled-up vapours condense into water; and the air, put into violent
67 XXXV | for innumerable columns of water rush upwards into the air
68 XXXVI | replenish our supply of water with the rain which the
69 XXXVII| me? Shall fire, air, and water make a combined attack against
70 XXXVII| together. The space between the water and the foot of the cliffs
71 XXXVII| fragments, boulders rounded by water action, and ridged up in
72 XXXVII| time. Perhaps even this water, subjected to the fierce
73 XL | not calculated for shallow water. In many places we were
74 XLII | four-and-twenty feet in diameter The water had reached the bottom of
75 XLII | pressure of this column of water we shall be crushed.”~“Axel,”
76 XLII | same moment, touching the water, I had to withdraw my hand
77 XLII | withdraw my hand in haste.~“The water is scalding,” I cried.~This
78 XLII | unbearable heat, this boiling water! I consulted the compass.~
79 XLIII | heat? Don’t you see how the water boils and bubbles? Are you
80 XLIII | into a crevice.”~“But the water — the rising water?”~“There
81 XLIII | But the water — the rising water?”~“There is no more water,
82 XLIII | water?”~“There is no more water, Axel; only a lava paste,
83 XLIV | lay spread a vast sheet of water, sparkling and dancing under
84 XLIV | a spring of fresh, cool water, in which we luxuriously
85 XLIV | of fruits and cold, clear water we set off again to reach
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