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Chapter
3002 XII | population. Beatings of the tomtoms and sounds of other formidable
3003 XXI | enough to exercise every tongue and excite every imagination.
3004 XXIII| brigantine of about a hundred tons, and in her he sailed for
3005 XVIII| have had to reef in her topsails and her foresail. Everything
3006 XVIII| their view the two colossal torches which light the confines
3007 XIV | her, that the “Albatross” tore along. Her speed exceeded
3008 XVIII| as in the Sahara, or a tornado, as on the western coast,
3009 XX | dynamite cartridge was like a torpedo fastened to her hull, and
3010 VIII | by terrestrial Engines. Torpedo-boats do their twenty-two knots
3011 X | spurting forth a vertical torrent twenty feet round and more
3012 XV | seen the wadys with their torrential waters, their forests of
3013 VI | fear were mingled with the tortures of hunger. Frycollin was
3014 IV | was quelled at once by the totally unexpected fashion of the
3015 XI | dazed in their look, he tottered along, like a man whose
3016 XXII | signify how deeply they were touched by their reception. Then
3017 VIII | her screws, could make the tour of the globe in two hundred
3018 XXI | Never had a Negro since Toussaint L’Ouverture, Soulouque,
3019 XVII | to them to cast off the tow-line. This, with many a blessing
3020 XII | twenty-nine thousand feet, towered Mount Everest. To the right
3021 XI | plunge should render this towing dangerous.~For half an hour,
3022 XXI | the clearing there were traces of a recent struggle. Perhaps
3023 XVI | eight feet from one another, tracing two furrows of light. As
3024 XXI | to put the police on the track. “Five thousand dollars!
3025 VII | and his aeroplane with the traction screws, Vaussin-Chardannes
3026 XIII | teimils, and smaller craft for trading and fishing. Here and there
3027 I | presence of the boiled eggs and traditional ham, and floods enough of
3028 IX | And when they ceased, the trampling of the grass under their
3029 XV | the moment his perpetual trances and said, “these are as
3030 I | true or false, alarming and tranquillizing their readers—as the sale
3031 XV | Nothing could be seen of the Trans- Saharan Railway constructing
3032 VI | snip off its point, and transform what was left of the blade
3033 IV | conquest of the air, and the transformation of the domestic and political
3034 VIII | three words. These were transmitted to the two assistant engineers
3035 XIII | kettle without any charge for transport.~An hour’s work sufficed
3036 IV | his figure was a regular trapezium with the greatest of its
3037 XV | guests who do me the honor to travel with me.”~“And so,” said
3038 XV | only been visited by the travelers of the ancient world Batouta,
3039 IX | change of clothes, and traveling-cloaks and rugs. No Atlantic liner
3040 XVIII| the screws. When a steamer travels upstream more work is got
3041 XIV | so as to lose no time in traversing the Alps or the Pyrenees,
3042 XIX | Think of their joy at again treading the earth they had lost
3043 II | where they made glucose by treating rags with sulphuric acid.
3044 XVI | beeches, ash-trees, cypresses, tree-ferns—and broad plains overrun
3045 XVI | virgin forests, gigantic trees-birches, beeches, ash-trees, cypresses,
3046 VII | uprights supported a wire trellis that did duty for bulwarks.
3047 VIII | Uncle Prudent, in a voice tremulous with anger.~“I have nothing
3048 IX | the face of the country trending from the south to the northwest,
3049 VIII | another locomotive between Trenton and Jersey City has done
3050 XII | shrillness in spite of the trifling density of the air. The
3051 II | the first triangle in a trigonometrical survey. That done, the two
3052 XV | going to take them on a trip over Africa, South America,
3053 VIII | going, they would have to triple their speed if the “Albatross”
3054 I | astronomers, who doubled and tripled the stars a hundred thousand
3055 IV | they are sure, some day to triumph. To the enemies of aviation,
3056 XIV | the two minarets of the Trocadero and the metal tower of the
3057 XXII | standstill that the people might troop to the show-master, workmen,
3058 IV | spoke as follows, without troubling himself any more about his
3059 X | securing an ample supply of trout, the only fish the Yellowstone
3060 IV | feet, all worthy of the trunk. No mustaches, no whiskers,
3061 XII | made the voyage somewhat trying, and although the friends
3062 VIII | by the Victoria Bridge, a tubular bridge thrown over the St.
3063 XI | Albatross,” freed from her tug, sprang aloft six hundred
3064 XIX | southwest, and the aeronef was tugging at her anchor and thus throwing
3065 XVIII| Higher it is,” said Tom Tumor.~An extreme ascensional
3066 I | other of these patriotic tunes, but what was undoubted
3067 XV | artillery-women have a blue-and-red tunic, and, as weapons, blunderbusses
3068 XV | pure as Diana, have blue tunics and white trousers. If we
3069 XV | the day he had traversed Tunis from Cape Bon to Cape Carthage,
3070 XIV | look-outs at La Goulette on the Tunisian coast.~After America, Asia!
3071 XIII | keep as the police of these Turcoman waters.~That morning Tom
3072 I | St. Michael’s Tower, the Turks on the highest minaret of
3073 XIII | which seemed like huge turquoises of beautiful blue.~It was
3074 IX | and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and machicolated towers.
3075 XV | instruments, elephants’ tusks giving forth a husky note,
3076 IV | a trace of the drawling twang that distinguishes the Yankees
3077 XI | were traversed during the twenty-four hours of this day and the
3078 XII | Albatross,” at a height of twenty-nine thousand feet, towered Mount
3079 XII | was Dhawalagiri, reaching twenty-six thousand eight hundred feet,
3080 XVIII| of north latitude and the twenty-sixth parallel of south latitude.
3081 XXI | Evans who had said to him twice, “Au revoir! Au revoir!”~
3082 V | the whole territory of the twin Americas that form the new
3083 XX | The damage was the same, a twisting from the violence of the
3084 I | Zurich, at Somblick in the Tyrolean Alps, there was a very strong
3085 II | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. A. The evening before
3086 XXII | describe the excitement, the unaccountable movements, the sudden pushings,
3087 XVII | elements of the batteries were unaffected by such frost, would not
3088 I | possibly be explained by the unaided existence of a cosmic phenomenon.~
3089 IV | mistaken! Is the gentleman unaware that this flyer is a mammal?
3090 VI | The same result.~“It is unbreakable glass!” said Evans.~It appeared
3091 XX | rapidity of descent rendered unbreathable.~Eighty seconds after the
3092 XXI | ran its course, and the uncertainty on the subject of Robur’
3093 XVIII| escape. But in following this unchanging trajectory she was bearing
3094 XVI | and his men seemed quite unconcerned about it and had gone back
3095 XIX | The suspensory screws were undamaged and had worked admirably
3096 IV | Robur I demonstrated with undeniable logic amid the uproar that
3097 VIII | makes you dumb! But if I undertook to carry you through the
3098 VI | felt we were being moved.”~“Undoubtedly; and consequently we must
3099 XIII | crew. She kept on without undue haste towards the angle
3100 XX | would doubtless have become uneasy! And told Tom Turner! And
3101 V | quivering, a frrrr, with the rrr unending.~And that was the only sound
3102 VI | Frycollin began to give unequivocal signs of being unwell. He
3103 XIX | probably because the ground was uneven and did not offer a convenient
3104 XXI | anonymous nationality, had unexpectedly presented himself in the
3105 XIV | sight of a meteor quite unforeseen by their astronomers. The
3106 XX | her propellers she was an unguidable balloon. The fugitives on
3107 XV | imagined with what fury these unhappy wretches are cut in pieces.~
3108 XV | even the thunder would be unheard amidst it.~In one corner
3109 I | blow party politics dropped unheeded—and the affairs of the world
3110 XXIII| Robur and his men remained unhelped, at first on the wreck,
3111 XXII | have seen the “Go-Ahead” unhesitatingly execute all the movements
3112 XVIII| the “Albatross” flew over unhurt. She swept through a hail
3113 XXIII| india-rubber boat that had fallen uninjured. A few hours after sunrise
3114 X | incomparable spectacle, unique in the world, for he did
3115 | unlike
3116 VII | unpatented. One thing was unmistakable, and that was that the piles
3117 VIII | eyes to enjoy a spectacle unparalleled in the world?”~The “Albatross”
3118 V | Was not that an insult as unpardonable as it happened to be just—
3119 VII | unreasonably—to keep his secret unpatented. One thing was unmistakable,
3120 XV | would willingly risk an unpleasant reception from the natives.
3121 V | vengeance. To leave such insults unpunished was impossible to all with
3122 VII | engineer took good care—and not unreasonably—to keep his secret unpatented.
3123 XXI | would believe it! “It is an unseasonable joke,” said some. “It is
3124 VII | making considerable progress. Unsized paper, with the sheets impregnated
3125 XIV | infernal machine. And it was untied, examined, and opened with
3126 XIV | would maintain her in an unvarying trajectory round the globe.~
3127 VI | unequivocal signs of being unwell. He began to writhe in a
3128 XXII | Philadelphia was in a state of unwonted excitement. There were neither
3129 XXII | Prudent and Phil Evans stood upright and placed their left hands
3130 VII | Round the deck a few light uprights supported a wire trellis
3131 XVIII| When a steamer travels upstream more work is got out of
3132 IV | enemies of aviation, who urge that the bird only sustains
3133 XXI | first the assembly voted urgency to a measure which suspended
3134 | using
3135 III | along a project of practical utility the money leaps nimbly enough
3136 XXI | led the attack against the utopia of guidable balloons? Perhaps
3137 III | believe in the absurdest of Utopias!”~“Let him in! Let him in!”~“
3138 XIX | lashed to the rail unable to utter a sound or move an inch.
3139 XIII | watched; and flight was utterly impossible.~This time they
3140 V | Chapter V~ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE~This
3141 XV | the Hydaspes taken in the vale of Cashmere still filled
3142 XIII | Paris on the slope of Mont Valerien.~“That would be Venice,”
3143 VII | properties, and it proved most valuable in the electric machinery
3144 XXII | will. Of course there was a valve in the upper hemisphere
3145 XI | the coast curves off from Vancouver Island up to the Aleutians—
3146 VIII | lights, and during the day vanishing into the zones above the
3147 XIII | country, the home of malarious vapors, the Terai, in which fever
3148 VII | great the work of the weight varies in almost inverse ratio
3149 VII | with the traction screws, Vaussin-Chardannes with his guidable kite,
3150 VII | of preserves, meats and vegetables sufficient to last for months.
3151 IV | said Robur, “I knew that vegetarians had longer alimentary canals
3152 XV | them Metlili, where there vegetates a religious chief. the grand
3153 XII | high table-lands without vegetation, with here and there snowy
3154 XIV | floated the rumble of the vehicles as they drove along the
3155 V | American blood in their veins. Had not the sons of Amerigo
3156 I | in the morning; at Mont Ventoux in Provence it had been
3157 V | With a master ever ready to venture on the most audacious enterprises,
3158 XVI | the least anxiety about venturing over this vast ocean. Both
3159 I | for the moon or Mars, or Venus, or Jupiter, or any other
3160 V | only an euphemism’ that the verb “discuss” can be used to
3161 V | are possessive and all the verbs infinitive. Let it be understood,
3162 XV | waves up to the, fresh. and verdant valley of Ain-Massin. It
3163 XIV | these twelve hundred miles! Verily it might be thought that
3164 VII | screws. In 1847 came Camille Vert and his helicopter made
3165 XV | another brigade, consisting of vestal virgins, pure as Diana,
3166 VI | Chapter VI~THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY
3167 VIII | Lawrence like the railway viaduct over the Venice lagoon.
3168 XVI | temporarily retired, sometimes a Viceroy of the Indies who had sought
3169 XXI | he, like Icarus, fallen a victim to his own temerity?~The
3170 XIII | Macedonian in remembrance of his victory have long since disappeared.~
3171 XVI | overrun by herds of guanacos, vicunas, and ostriches. Now there
3172 I | Berlin and the observatory of Vienna the discussion threatened
3173 XV | the bend of the Niger, was viewed from the “Albatross.”~If
3174 XIX | time to lose, set to work vigorously.~While they were busy in
3175 VII | researches of Derblinger, Vigual, Sarti, Dubochet, and Cagniard
3176 VII | Chapter VII~ON BOARD THE ALBATROSS~“
3177 VIII | Chapter VIII~THE BALLOONISTS REFUSE TO
3178 VII | Perugia, of Leonardo da Vinci and Guidotti, the idea of
3179 XIII | which mixed up with salt, vinegar, and white wine form caviar.
3180 XV | of Sel, whose green and violet slope bore its cape of white.
3181 XVI | animals; then would appear virgin forests, gigantic trees-birches,
3182 III | Chapter III~A VISITOR IS ANNOUNCED~The many experiments
3183 II | taunts, objurgations, and vociferations which filled the lecture
3184 I | place, not in the infinite void, but within the atmospherical
3185 IV | Constantinople, of the monk Volador at Lisbon, of De Leturn
3186 XIII | cabin.~The Caspian Sea is a volcanic depression. Into it flow
3187 XVIII| excitement followed. One of the volcanoes, Erebus, seemed to be rushing
3188 XVIII| Albatross.” There were the two volcanos of the Ross Mountains—Erebus
3189 XXI | leaving the desk, amid a volley of revolver shots, he had
3190 III | Weldon Institute, whose volume amounted to forty thousand
3191 XVIII| calm, the middle of the vortex.~Robur knew this. He also
3192 III | to have given the casting vote—Uncle Prudent, brought up
3193 XXI | And at first the assembly voted urgency to a measure which
3194 II | president of the club? The votes were exactly divided between
3195 II | account of it Phil Evans vowed against Uncle Prudent one
3196 I | trajectory of the mysterious voyager took it but a moderate height
3197 XIX | provisioned for all her voyages. In X Island, Robur, a man
3198 XXIII| on this very day, like a vulture from the clouds, the aeronef
3199 XV | distance could be seen the wadys with their torrential waters,
3200 VI | like parcels in a goods wagon, nor where they were, nor
3201 VII | of it pulleys, rails, and wagon-wheels, much more solid than metal
3202 VI | some of those long prairie wagons, or some show-caravan —”~“
3203 I | Good,” said the Yankee wags. “There is a French band
3204 XIX | crept forward, intending to wake Frycollin and take him with
3205 XVII | other men had now sat up. Wan and exhausted, in a terrible
3206 XV | elephants and buffaloes which wander over this land, whose fertility
3207 XIX | even rebuild it. In his warehouses were materials and provisions
3208 VII | cartridges; a cooking-stove, warmed by currents from the accumulators;
3209 XII | although it was in the warmest months of the northern hemisphere,
3210 IV | only sustains himself by warming the air he strikes, their
3211 XIII | but these were welcomed warmly enough on board the “Albatross.”~
3212 XVIII| The sun’s disk— without warmth, without light—only appeared
3213 XV | were drawn up four thousand warriors, one of the contigents of
3214 I | question the observatories of Washington in the District of Columbia,
3215 VI | have relieved them of their watches, jewelry, and purses, and
3216 XIV | or a gulf or a lake or a watercourse, for it would then perhaps
3217 XIII | basin of the Hydaspes, and watered by the capricious windings
3218 XVI | the eddy of an enormous waterspout, while twenty others, black
3219 VII | all sorts, including the watertanks. Round the deck a few light
3220 X | of the train replied by waving the Stars and Stripes.~In
3221 VII | wings, fixed together with wax, had melted as they approached
3222 V | They met only a few belated wayfarers, and pressed on across a
3223 V | explained them in a hundred ways, not one of which was the
3224 IX | whose currents had grown weaker with the evening. Beyond
3225 XI | marvelous strength, defying all weakness and weariness.~During the
3226 XIX | Robur, a man of immense wealth, had established a shipyard
3227 XIII | medium-sized sterlets, which wealthy gourmets have sent alive
3228 XI | defying all weakness and weariness.~During the 18th of June
3229 XXI | in great want of a good weeding, and it got it on this occasion.
3230 XXI | On that evening was the weekly meeting of the Institute.
3231 XVIII| her weight, although she weighed less than before, owing
3232 III | yelled the assembly. And the welcome accorded so quickly to the
3233 II | the Weldon Institute, the well-known club in Walnut Street, Philadelphia,
3234 VIII | house. There they found a well-laid table at which they could
3235 XV | sun to bake, and artesian wells dug in the valley—where
3236 X | Chapter X~WESTWARD—BUT WHITHER?~The next day,
3237 XIII | dragged on deck he was as wet as if he had been to the
3238 XI | which had been previously wetted in a tub of water to prevent
3239 XI | cabin. Perhaps there was a whaler in sight! In that case all
3240 XI | in the northern seas, and whalers are very careful in attacking
3241 | whereas
3242 XVI | frenzy. To find themselves whipped off into the unknown without
3243 XI | surface of the water. A whirlpool was formed where the animal
3244 XVIII| straw caught in one of those whirlwinds that root up the trees,
3245 IV | trunk. No mustaches, no whiskers, but a large American goatee,
3246 IX | there were no more shrill whistles of locomotives or deeper
3247 II | voices, with a vigor in no whit less remarkable.~“We shall
3248 XV | blue or red scarf, with white-and-blue striped trousers and a white
3249 II | On two boards of perfect whiteness a black line is traced.
3250 XIII | and were looking into the whites of each other’s eyes. Then
3251 XVIII| blink” to be seen, that whitish tint of which the reflection
3252 XV | the prisoners tied up in wicker baskets, and it can be imagined
3253 XXI | occurred to some of the wide-awake people, but none dreamt
3254 XV | hillock shaded by a group of wide-branched trees. Before him stood
3255 X | inhabitants, the country differing widely from the auriferous lands
3256 XVI | succession of luminous waves widened out over the surface of
3257 XIV | the sea, is over a mile in width.~Thenceforward the flight
3258 XIII | salt, vinegar, and white wine form caviar. Sturgeons from
3259 XV | They had understood. The winged monster was not a friendly
3260 VII | light uprights supported a wire trellis that did duty for
3261 IX | products of Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, and all the States
3262 I | who, thanks to one of the wisest laws of nature, have formed,
3263 III | ahead obediently to the wishes of its commander.~The dynamo-electric
3264 I | that famous trumpet, to wit— the phenomenon must occur
3265 XXIII| have come too soon today to withstand such contradictory and divided
3266 XIII | half-past two o’clock Robur witnessed a phenomenon that was new
3267 V | over the neighborhood. They woke up the householders; they
3268 IX | time came the howl of a wolf, a fox, a wild cat, or a
3269 XVI | and Navarin Island and Wollaston Island, on the shores of
3270 IX | the whole world had been wondering over for some time.~In an
3271 VIII | admire nothing of these wonders.~A minute afterwards the “
3272 XIII | taking his ship over the wondrous lands of Hindustan. To cross
3273 XIII | banks of the river; its wooden bridges stretching across
3274 V | by the patches of thick woodland—which make the park different
3275 XI | on end—if it had not been wool.~“The sea! The sea!” he
3276 IV | energy. Short hair, slightly woolly, with metallic reflections;
3277 II | respect to the best Swiss workmanship. Phil Evans would have passed
3278 XXII | troop to the show-master, workmen, women, old men, children,
3279 II | distributed amongst all the workshops within a radius of three
3280 X | ten thousand saints can worship at their ease. This vast
3281 XXI | supernatural beings. They worshipped them, we ought rather to
3282 XIV | box round with a piece of worsted so as to keep it from opening
3283 XIX | to answer, and was then wound round with string and attached
3284 V | of fact they were in full wrangle with an energy born of their
3285 XIV | not men to waste time in wrangling when nothing could come
3286 XVIII| moment when the furnace would wrap them in its fires.~But the
3287 XII | friends had warm traveling wraps, they preferred to keep
3288 XIII | afraid, but because his wrath had nearly choked him; and
3289 XIV | instant over the fuliginous wreaths of Vesuvius. Then, after
3290 XIII | tremendous noise.~“That wretched nigger will not be quiet,
3291 XV | what fury these unhappy wretches are cut in pieces.~In one
3292 VI | being unwell. He began to writhe in a most lamentable fashion,
3293 XIII | protesting and crying, and writhing in a thousand contortions
3294 XXI | it was the president’s writing!~Then did the people lament
3295 XI | Chapter XI~THE WIDE PACIFIC~Uncle Prudent
3296 XII | Chapter XII~THROUGH THE HIMALAYAS~During,
3297 XIII | Chapter XIII~OVER THE CASPIAN~The Engineer
3298 XIV | Chapter XIV~THE AERONEF AT FULL SPEED~
3299 XIX | Chapter XIX~ANCHORED AT LAST~When the “
3300 XV | Chapter XV~A SKIRMISH IN DAHOMEY~At
3301 XVI | Chapter XVI~OVER THE ATLANTIC~Yes, the
3302 XVII | Chapter XVII~THE SHIPWRECKED CREW~Next
3303 XVIII| Chapter XVIII~OVER THE VOLCANO~The sea
3304 XX | Chapter XX~THE WRECK OF THE ALBATROSS~
3305 XXI | Chapter XXI~THE INSTITUTE AGAIN~Some
3306 XXII | Chapter XXII~THE GO-AHEAD IS LAUNCHED~
3307 XXIII| Chapter XXIII~THE GRAND COLLAPSE~It was
3308 XII | animals—no wild horses, or yaks, or Tibetan bulls. Occasionally
3309 I | night— the observers at Yale College, in the Sheffield
3310 IV | twang that distinguishes the Yankees of New England.~He continued: “
3311 III | Robur! Robur! Robur!” yelled the assembly. And the welcome
3312 XI | sea were a few of those yellow-bellied whales which measure about
3313 XV | affected by the odors of the Youbou-Kamo square, where the meatmarket
3314 I | Yankee Doodle!’” replied the young American.~The dispute was
3315 I | was an Englishman and the younger an American, and both of
3316 | yourselves
3317 IV | upon the air from Herold’s “Zampa.”~And they all took up the
3318 XII | mass above the province of Zang. On the other side of the
3319 XXI | two weeks landed in New Zealand.~At Auckland, a mail-boat
3320 XV | escape had sunk to below zero. But the “Albatross” had
3321 VIII | city of Champlain, whose zinc roofs were shining like
3322 I | Julier, at the Simplon, at Zurich, at Somblick in the Tyrolean
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