Chapter

 1 III  |           to the direction of the wind, and even against the wind,
 2 III  |        wind, and even against the wind, to return to their point
 3 III  |         did very well. In a light wind of five or six yards a second
 4 III  |      obtained. Against a miller’s wind— nine yards a second—the
 5 III  |          make its way against the wind?~In this struggle of the
 6 IV   |         working an angle with the wind, or even beating to windward
 7 IV   |          pretending to resist the wind by aid of its mechanism,
 8 VI   |          continuous f-r-r-r.~“The wind, doubtless,” said Uncle
 9 VI   |          said Uncle Prudent.~“The wind! But I thought the night
10 VI   |          was. But if it isn’t the wind, what can it be?”~Phil Evans
11 VIII |          they were going with the wind. In a calm such speed would
12 VIII |           to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than
13 VIII |         must be stronger than the wind, and I am. I had no need
14 IX   |          during last evening. The wind being easterly the rate
15 X    |     surpassed that of the chasing wind. Soon she was in Nevada
16 XI   |       were a ship driving against wind an tide,~Luckily, with a
17 XII  |     beneath. In the breath of the wind these slips, with all their
18 XIII |    frequent in these regions. The wind called the “tebbad” bears
19 XIII |          over the town, which the wind had wrapped in a mantle
20 XIV  |       miles an hour.~At first the wind was in the northeast, and
21 XIV  |           a westerly one. But the wind began to drop, and it soon
22 XIV  | deck-house by the pressure of the wind.~Luckily the steersman saw
23 XIV  |        windward in half a gale of wind, will understand what the
24 XIV  |   incomparable speed made her own wind.~To allow Uncle Prudent
25 XV   |     against a somewhat boisterous wind. Then the desert was crossed,
26 XV   |         coast which the southwest wind hems round with an inaccessible
27 XVI  |      southwest winds prevail, the wind was ahead of them, and though
28 XVII |           the waves. There was no wind, and she was making no progress.
29 XVIII|          several millimeters. The wind came in violent gusts, and
30 XVIII|        Everything showed that the wind was rising in the northwest.
31 XVIII|          clock in the morning the wind came on again with extreme
32 XVIII|          fact the violence of the wind sensibly increased. The
33 XVIII|        had thus to fly before the wind or rather she had to be
34 XVIII|       became more probable as the wind shifted more to the east
35 XVIII|         start in the evening.~The wind had died away completely
36 XIX  |        the mate. “We may have the wind against us this passage,
37 XIX  |           had no fear that if the wind were to rise he would be
38 XX   |    sunrise. To return against the wind she must have her propellers
39 XX   |         sea, in the hope that the wind would there be lighter.
40 XX   |         like it, and probably the wind has dropped altogether.”~“
41 XX   |          since we got adrift. The wind has not changed all the
42 XXII |    dilation of gas or violence of wind or rain; her capacity gave
43 XXII |           tried.~But there was no wind today, nor any sign of any.
44 XXII | annihilated.~But why was there no wind to assist at this magnificent
45 XXII |          a steamer driving in the wind’s eye.~At this moment the
46 XXII |         movement; not a breath of wind was there, high or low.