Chapter

 1 II    |           this, the Icelandic has three numbers like the Greek,
 2 II    |         parchment, five inches by three, and along which were traced
 3 V     |        would open the secret.~For three long hours my uncle worked
 4 V     |          few moments of silence.~“Three o’clock,” I replied.~“Is
 5 VI    |           present time only about three hundred. But there is a
 6 VIII  |           of the monotony; for in three hours we stopped at Kiel,
 7 VIII  |         as the plain of Holstein.~Three hours’ travelling brought
 8 IX    |       pilot came on board, and in three hours the Valkyria dropped
 9 IX    |        made over to us two of the three rooms which his house contained,
10 IX    |          the very first night.~In three hours I had seen not only
11 XI    |           for the remuneration of three rixdales a week (about twelve
12 XI    |        spades, a silk ropeladder, three iron-tipped sticks, a hatchet,
13 XII   |        head, and went on his way.~Three hours later, still treading
14 XII   |      place the fiord was at least three English miles wide; the
15 XIII  |       very short time we each had three or four of these brats on
16 XIV   |        Hans hired the services of three Icelanders to do the duty
17 XV    |        turned out, quite useless.~Three hours’ fatiguing march had
18 XV    |           to pass in an hour. The three Icelanders, just as taciturn
19 XV    |        cone proper of the crater.~Three thousand two hundred feet
20 XV    |       must have measured at least three leagues. I could stand it
21 XVI   |         bottom of the crater were three chimneys, through which,
22 XVI   |          had hastily surveyed all three; he was panting, running
23 XVI   |           For this reason.~Of the three ways open before us, one
24 XVII  |     hundred feet in diameter, and three hundred feet round. I bent
25 XVII  |           I will divide them into three lots; each of us will strap
26 XVII  |        seemed a fragile thing for three persons to be suspended
27 XVII  |          descent went on.~Another three hours, and I saw no bottom
28 XIX   |      tunnel, and we were soon all three in it.~Besides there would
29 XIX   |           I replied.~“What! after three hours’ walk over such easy
30 XX    |          could not last more than three days. I found that out for
31 XX    |       left to slake the thirst of three men.~After their meal my
32 XX    |          inexhaustible, and which three centuries at the present
33 XX    |       take a night’s rest, and in three days we shall get to the
34 XXI   |          hasten forward. It was a three days’ march to the cross
35 XXI   |           of his ships’ crews for three days more to discover a
36 XXII  |  ascertained it to be composed of three different formations, schist,
37 XXIII |       left side of the tunnel, at three feet from the ground.~I
38 XXIII |    refreshed and thankful, we all three fell into a sound sleep.~
39 XXVII |         of my intelligence.~I had three days’ provisions with me
40 XXX   |          winds. A brig and two or three schooners might have moored
41 XXXI  |           answer.”~“Horizontally, three hundred and fifty leagues
42 XXXI  |           vault, with a radius of three leagues, beneath which a
43 XXXII |         whole length of the fuci, three or four thousand feet long,
44 XXXIII|          leagues. Now we had made three times the distance, yet
45 XXXIII|       asks for his wages, and his three rix dollars are counted
46 XXXIII|           them from seeing us.~At three hundred yards from us the
47 XXXIV |            Temperature high. Rate three and a half leagues an hour.~
48 XXXIV |   unbroken to its farthest limit.~Three hours pass away. The roarings
49 XXXIV |   Pyrenees if the league measures three miles. (Trans.)~
50 XXXV  |         rise above our heads.~For three days we have never been
51 XXXVI |        each of us, exhausted with three sleepless nights, fell into
52 XXXVI |    impossible, since during these three stormy days I have been
53 XXXVI |        right; and this would make three hundred leagues more.”~“
54 XXXVII|          faint haze. There within three square miles were accumulated
55 XXXIX |        the strand for from one to three hundred years, and has blunted
56 XL    |    letters, engraved on this spot three hundred years ago, I stood
57 XL    |           now, after the lapse of three centuries, again trace thy
58 XL    |   straight course. At last, after three hours’ sailing, about six
59 XLI   |    minutes more!” he said. “Four! Three!”~My pulse beat half-seconds.~“
60 XLI   |        its crew and cargo.~We all three fell down flat. In less
61 XLII  |          bit of salt meat for the three.”~My uncle stared at me
62 XLII  | destruction. He divided them into three equal portions and gave
63 XLV   |    Messageries Imperiales, and in three days more we were at Marseilles,