Chapter

 1 I     |      dangerous places, and when he began to stumble, loud was the
 2 V     |       armchair, and pen in hand he began what looked very much like
 3 V     |           wants.~About noon hunger began to stimulate me severely.
 4 V     |           than that, unbearable. I began to say to myself that I
 5 VIII  |            the key, and the ascent began.~My uncle went ahead with
 6 VIII  |         There the aerial staircase began its gyrations, only guarded
 7 VIII  |       every gust of wind; my knees began to fail; soon I was crawling
 8 XIII  |         yards from Gardär the soil began to change its aspect; it
 9 XV    |           the top of our speed. He began to circle round the cone
10 XVI   |        ended and the foaming waves began.~I was thus steeped in the
11 XVI   | sharp-pointed angular shadow which began to move slowly in the opposite
12 XVII  |         XVII.~VERTICAL DESCENT~Now began our real journey. Hitherto
13 XIX   |             at 6 a.m., the descent began again.~We were still following
14 XIX   |          bearable. Involuntarily I began to think of its heat when
15 XXIII |          two thousand feet.~Then I began to hear distinctly quite
16 XXIV  |           appeared; our naiad then began to tumble before us with
17 XXVI  |        alone replied to my call.~I began to feel uneasy. A shudder
18 XXVII |           me totally blind.~Then I began to lose my head. I arose
19 XXVII |        painfully to feel my way. I began to run wildly, hurrying
20 XXVIII|     leagues under ground?”~I again began to listen. Passing my ear
21 XXX   |           eagerly accepted, and we began to coast along this new
22 XXXIV |           from his contemplations, began again to look impatiently
23 XLI   |           the lantern in my hand I began my examination. Of our instruments
24 XLI   |         the light from our lantern began to sink by little and little,
25 XLII  |             An hour passed away. I began to feel the pangs of a violent
26 XLIII |      exposed us!~Soon lurid lights began to penetrate the vertical
27 XLIV  |          been so long strangers, I began to use them to set my imagination
28 XLIV  |           and struggling.~My uncle began to encourage him as well
29 XLV   |         sight of; I opened it, and began to watch it.~It had been
30 XLV   |            this confounded compass began to point south instead of