Chapter
1 IV | Curtis himself came on deck, and as I watched his movements
2 V | horizon. At six, I went on deck with M. Letourneur and his
3 V | took the trouble to come on deck and give a glance at this
4 VI | below; but I prefer being on deck notwithstanding the driving
5 VI | his son have ventured upon deck to witness the unusual spectacle.
6 VII | an unaccustomed noise on deck. There were heavy footsteps
7 VII | all haste I could to go on deck; but before I was ready,
8 VII | Letourneur and Andre came an deck. The young man enjoyed the
9 VII | searching glance upon the deck, and then, with a slightly
10 VIII | repeated orders for the deck to be watered again and
11 VIII | found the atmosphere below deck so stifling that in spite
12 VIII | morning at daybreak I went on deck. The sun had scarcely risen,
13 VIII | as usual were washing the deck, A great sheet of water,
14 VIII | my amazement to find the deck perfectly hot to my feet!
15 IX | constant scourings of the deck and the oppressive heat
16 IX | heard the disturbance upon deck. The men on watch noticed
17 IX | strength. Do what we will, the deck gets hotter and hotter,
18 IX | During the night, I had the deck bored in various places
19 IX | captain run into port with his deck scorching his very feet,
20 X | The increasing heat of the deck did not reveal itself to
21 XI | franticly up and down the deck, gesticulating like a madman,
22 XI | reality broken out, rushed on deck; the rest of the passengers
23 XI | fell down senseless on the deck, and her husband, occupied
24 XI | to rave up and down the deck with the incessant cry of “
25 XII | find a vent through the deck. If the sea is calm enough
26 XII | We now prepared to go on deck. As we left the saloon,
27 XIII | need.~“Why not bore the deck?” I said to Curtis. “Why
28 XIII | passengers nearly all, on deck, and the two stern cabins,
29 XIII | any attempt to walk upon deck up to the forecastle was
30 XIII | fantastic patterns about the deck.~Then to complete our perplexity,
31 XIII | most violently across the deck. A boat could not live for
32 XIII | hurricane. The panels of the deck are upheaved, and volumes
33 XIII | along the centre of the deck; but it is impossible to
34 XIII | shrieking wildly, is brought on deck by Miss Herbey. A moment
35 XIII | already alight, rushes upon deck. Like a salamander he passes
36 XIII | passes across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and
37 XIV | work your pumps while the deck is burning? and how can
38 XIV | short off level with the deck, falls into the sea, and
39 XV | impracticable to step upon the deck, the lieutenant and the
40 XVI | renders walking upon the deck anything but an easy matter;
41 XVI | had entered the hold. The deck was still too hot to walk
42 XVIII| limits of the “Chancellor’s” deck is like some vast domain;
43 XIX | the ship, right up to the deck, had been completely inundated.~
44 XX | conflagration. They found that the deck and the cross-beams that
45 XX | carpenter returned to the deck with anxious faces. Curtis
46 XXII | all the crew remained on deck, whilst Curtis never quitted
47 XXII | down into the hold, came on deck with the ominous cry,—~“
48 XXII | passengers as were already on deck of the new danger that threatened
49 XXIV | consequently often washed over the deck and contributed their part
50 XXIV | were obliged to come on deck.~This morning, after a somewhat
51 XXIV | her flying visits to the deck, I warned her to take every
52 XXV | with him across the flooded deck deposited him safely in
53 XXV | two feet of water over her deck?”~“No, Mr. Kazallon, she
54 XXV | after the submersion of the deck, have been hoisted to the
55 XXVI | intervening section of the deck is quite below the water,
56 XXVII| five feet of water above deck; the side netting had completely
57 XXX | the time when the ship’s deck was submerged, and the small
58 XXX | else that was placed on deck in readiness for the first
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