Chapter
1 I | Niagara on their way to Goat Island, the neutral ground. between
2 I | with the breakfast on Goat Island. Perhaps it was neither
3 XI | curves off from Vancouver Island up to the Aleutians— belonging
4 XVI | the Archipelago. Clarence Island, Dawson Island, and the
5 XVI | Clarence Island, Dawson Island, and the Land of Desolation,
6 XVI | Beagle Channel, and Navarin Island and Wollaston Island, on
7 XVI | Navarin Island and Wollaston Island, on the shores of the Pacific.
8 XVII | ought to be in some lonely island in the Pacific with a colony
9 XVII | as if for some unknown island of the Pacific. Beneath
10 XVIII| clock in the morning Balleny Island was sighted on the coast
11 XVIII| It was soon seen to be an island. But which island was it
12 XVIII| be an island. But which island was it of the thousands
13 XVIII| reached the shore of the island the anchor dragged up the
14 XIX | was high in the air the island could be seen to be of moderate
15 XIX | ran through it? Was it an island in the Pacific, in Australasia,
16 XIX | hundred and, fifty feet—the island which measured about fifteen
17 XIX | the southwest point of the island. Not far off, down a little
18 XIX | in great numbers. If the island was not inhabited it was
19 XIX | and particularly of Pitt Island, one of the group.~“That
20 XIX | Forty-six degrees south of X Island, or two thousand eight hundred
21 XIX | they became colonists of X Island?”~But where was this X?
22 XIX | where was this X? It was an island lost in the immensity of
23 XIX | the Tropic of Cancer—an island most appropriately named
24 XIX | for all her voyages. In X Island, Robur, a man of immense
25 XIX | inhabitants who lived on the island.~When Robur had doubled
26 XIX | intention had been to regain X Island by crossing the Pacific
27 XIX | therefore to get back to X Island, but as the mate had said,
28 XIX | creek to the interior of the island when suddenly a form rose
29 XIX | some distant part of the island when Phil Evans stopped
30 XIX | to leave us free on this island?”~“Never!” said Robur. And
31 XX | Albatross” drifted off from Pitt Island she rose obliquely to nearly
32 XX | cannot get away from Pitt Island, and in a day or so I will
33 XX | they would return to the island and drop another anchor,
34 XX | across the Pacific to X Island.~It was important, above
35 XX | delay his return to Pitt Island. In short, after several
36 XX | still be in sight of the island.~Robur did not trouble himself
37 XX | They will not escape from X Island!”~About one o’clock in the
38 XX | They might even discover X Island, and there would be an end
39 XX | we ought to be over the island in an hour.”~“Yes, sir.
40 XX | stop a day or two on the island —”~“We’ll stop, and if we
41 XXI | could Robur get back to the island for three or four hours
42 XXI | the aeronef descend on the island, and they welcomed the fugitives
43 XXII | Robur had a retreat, an island in the middle of that vast
44 XXIII| Australia, but a long way from X Island, to which he desired to
45 XXIII| and in her he sailed for X Island.~There he had but one idea—
46 XXIII| The “Albatross” left X Island in the first week of April.
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