Chapter
1 VII | and twelve wide, a ship’s deck in fact, with a projecting
2 VII | the watertanks. Round the deck a few light uprights supported
3 VII | duty for bulwarks. On the deck were three houses, whose
4 VII | and propulsion.—Above the deck rose thirty-seven vertical
5 VIII | to the other end of the deck, leaving them to examine
6 VIII | Phil Evans appeared on the deck. Robur was no longer there.
7 IX | Evans were walking on the deck of the “Albatross.”~Nothing
8 IX | the car of a balloon or deck of an aeronef. It is not
9 X | for he did not appear on deck. Was it, then, for the sole
10 X | Albatross” had appeared on the deck, and one of them, like sailors
11 X | moment Robur appeared on deck. The colleagues walked up
12 XI | cabins! When they came on deck in the morning the dawn
13 XI | would have fallen on the deck had not the cook opened
14 XI | vessel.~The crew were all on deck. “Shall we try, sir?” asked
15 XI | wave dashed up on to the deck as if the aeronef were a
16 XI | colleagues were out on the deck while the engineer was taking
17 XIII | who had just appeared on deck.~“President of the Weldon
18 XIII | two or three seconds the deck would be under water.~But
19 XIII | When he was dragged on deck he was as wet as if he had
20 XIV | colleagues to remain on the deck without having their breath
21 XIV | aft, creeping along the deck.~Those who have been at
22 XIV | cabin and creep along the deck at the risk of being suddenly
23 XIV | speed or a halt to go out on deck and drop the precious snuff-box
24 XIV | the snuff-box fell on the deck of one of these vessels
25 XIV | the crew came on to the deck to breathe the ambient air.~
26 XV | set to work to clear the deck, and the locusts were thrown
27 XVI | thrown to the ends of the deck by centrifugal force, were
28 XVII | remained a good deal on deck thinking over their plans
29 XVIII| not for a moment left the deck; they could remain without
30 XIX | after walking about the deck, had sat down aft. Frycollin
31 XIX | that it would blow in the deck and tear away the framework
32 XIX | made their way along the deck, stopping in the shadow
33 XIX | footsteps were heard on deck. Almost immediately the
34 XX | them to that part of the deck; nothing called off their
35 XX | and the after-part of the deck collapsed in space.~Immediately
36 XXIII| her screws broken, her deck smashed in two, had been
37 XXIII| Pacific?~The remains of the deck, the blades of the propellers,
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