Chapter
1 XII | ourselves to a somewhat fragile raft. Accustomed as I was to
2 XXXI | all, but a good, well-made raft.”~“Why,” I said, “a raft
3 XXXI | raft.”~“Why,” I said, “a raft would be just as hard to
4 XXXI | surprise a half-finished raft was already lying on the
5 XXXI | skill of our guide, the raft was made. It was ten feet
6 XXXII | the frothy track of the raft, I might have thought we
7 XXXII | sea of Liedenbrock.~Our raft skirted the whole length
8 XXXII | fast by the helm, let the raft run on, which, after all,
9 XXXII | Wind steady, N.W. The raft makes rapid way in a direct
10 XXXII | Professor, the guide, the raft — are all gone out of my
11 XXXIII| circumstances? Is not the raft spinning along with marvellous
12 XXXIII| little sail upon a pond on a raft.”~He called this sea a pond,
13 XXXIII| fear. The shadow of the raft was clearly outlined upon
14 XXXIII| terrible shock awoke me. The raft was heaved up on a watery
15 XXXIII| would have crunched our raft, crew and all, at one snap
16 XXXIII| wheeled around our little raft with a rapidity greater
17 XXXIII| hundred and fifty yards of the raft, and hurl themselves the
18 XXXIII| which rolled even to our raft and rocked it perilously.
19 XXXIII| approach and recede from our raft. We remain motionless, ready
20 XXXIV | waterspout, which would sink our raft in a moment.”~Hans, steering
21 XXXV | rock or shore, even if our raft should be smashed into shivers!”~
22 XXXV | bubble ready to burst. The raft flies at a rate that I cannot
23 XXXV | lies full length across the raft.~The heat increases. I refer
24 XXXV | But Hans is as usual. The raft bears on still to the south-east.
25 XXXV | lashed to some part of the raft. The waves rise above our
26 XXXV | and lighted on board our raft. Mast and sail flew up in
27 XXXV | moved slowly about the raft, but revolving on its own
28 XXXV | the fall upon our fated raft of this electric globe has
29 XXXV | uncle at full length on the raft, and Hans still at his helm
30 XXXVI | What happened when the raft was dashed upon the rocks
31 XXXVI | tempest had but sent the raft a little more east, we should
32 XXXVI | shall have to refit the raft.”~“Of course.”~“Then, as
33 XXXVI | the terrible wreck of the raft should not have destroyed
34 XXXVI | from thirst. As for the raft, I will recommend Hans to
35 XXXVI | rate or direction of the raft; but still we may get an
36 XXXVI | us, which had brought our raft back to the shore which
37 XXXVII| all my eloquence.~“To the raft!” he shouted.~Such was his
38 XXXVII| finishing the repairs of the raft. One would have thought
39 XXXVII| accustomed place on the raft, when my uncle laid his
40 XXXIX | had better return to our raft. But, Axel, are you not
41 XL | he said, “and bring the raft to this spot.”~I obeyed,
42 XL | apparatus in action; the raft moored to the shore was
43 XL | Icelander returned to the raft and soon came back with
44 XLI | join my companions on the raft, which had not yet been
45 XLI | time to get away to the raft.~I prepared to fulfil my
46 XLI | the top of my speed to the raft.~“Come on board quickly,
47 XLI | sent us from the shore. The raft shot twenty fathoms out
48 XLI | ridge of which the unhappy raft was uplifted bodily in the
49 XLI | not only myself but the raft also had no support beneath.
50 XLI | from being thrown off the raft. We felt violent shocks
51 XLI | a better comparison. The raft, occasionally seized by
52 XLI | crack and cranny in the raft. There was nothing. Our
53 XLI | measure, I felt a shock. The raft had not struck against any
54 XLI | fast by the arms; and the raft was still carrying us.~
55 XLIII | of eruption; beneath our raft were boiling waters, and
56 XLIII | necessary, we shall abandon the raft, and creep into a crevice.”~“
57 XLIII | his idea of abandoning the raft, and it was well he did.
58 XLIII | upward movement ceased. The raft lay motionless.~“What is
59 XLIII | look around me. Perhaps the raft itself, stopped in its course
60 XLIII | his prognostications. The raft was soon hurried and driven
61 XLIII | hold of the planks of the raft, not to be thrown off. Then
62 XLIII | movement with which our raft was once whirled helplessly
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