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 1 V      |           sung out that there was land to windward, and descried
 2 V      |       stood gazing at the distant land, “there lies the enchanted
 3 V      |         shore make the attempt to land a very dangerous piece of
 4 IX     |          and make for the nearest land?”~“Perhaps it would,” he
 5 X      |          Antilles are the nearest land; and although they are some
 6 XIII   |      further and further from the land for which we are longing
 7 XV     |          permitting, endeavour to land, either in the boat or upon
 8 XV     |         If, on the other hand, no land were in sight, and the “
 9 XV     |           of miles it may be from land. All are for the time possessed
10 XVI    |           mists limited our view. Land was nowhere to be seen.
11 XVI    |       south from the Bermudas, no land should be in sight. But
12 XVI    |      rejoined us on the poop.~“No land in sight,” he said, in answer
13 XVI    |        here we are 800 miles from land; for such, on consulting
14 XIX    |          will insure our reaching land in safety.~After two days’
15 XX     |         have carried us safely to land; but I dare not run the
16 XXII   |          yet be time to reach the land before the last crisis came.
17 XXV    |        until she came in sight of land, when those who had survived
18 XXVI   |           to embark far away from land.~About eight o’clock in
19 XXVII  |         was carrying us away from land. Moreover, the ship had
20 XXX    |        wait ere they sight either land or a passing vessel. One
21 XXXVIII| imagination shape out the distant land. But ever and again the
22 XXXVIII|          that had deceived us; no land, no sail ever broke the
23 XLII   |           ceased even to look for land; it might almost seem as
24 L      |    impossibility, of our sighting land, or being picked up by a
25 LI     |       that is to say, towards the land.~To-day the breeze has dropped
26 LI     |      sudden I heard the shout of “Land! land!”~The words acted
27 LI     |         heard the shout of “Land! land!”~The words acted upon me
28 LI     |          I started to my feet. No land, indeed, was visible, but
29 LII    |      Birds! why, that looks as if land were not far off.”~But although
30 LII    |           to the hope of reaching land, I knew not what it was
31 LIV    |          just one more day? If no land or ship is in sight to-morrow,
32 LIV    |           To-morrow, then, unless land or a sail appear, the horrible
33 LIV    |          certain than that either land or sail, be they miles away,
34 LVI    |      friends, we are not far from land!”~It was not too late; the
35 LVI    |           I asked at length.~“The land is there,” said Curtis pointing
36 LVI    |     though he were mocking us; no land was in sight, and the raft,
37 LVI    |            repeated the captain, “land is certainly there, not
38 LVI    |          miles to leeward.”~“What land?” inquired the boatswain.~“
39 LVII   |           fresh water so far from land. Yet land, undoubtedly was
40 LVII   |       water so far from land. Yet land, undoubtedly was there,
41 LVII   |       raised the joyous shout of “Land ahoy!”~* * * *~My journal
42 LVII   |      hours after we first sighted land the raft was off Cape Magoari,
43 LVII   |           The raft was brought to land in lat. 0deg. 12min. N.,