Chapter

 1 II     |          twenty or five-and-twenty days have precluded the formation
 2 II     |          interchange of ideas. Two days have elapsed and I have
 3 VI     |           for the best part of two days; the “stiffish breeze” has
 4 VII    |            as it still wants three days to her last quarter she
 5 IX     |         was first discovered.~“Six days ago,” replied the mate.~“
 6 IX     |             replied the mate.~“Six days ago!” I exclaimed; “why,
 7 IX     |          but during the last three days there is every reason to
 8 XIII   |            29th.—For the last five days the sea has been very heavy,
 9 XIII   |         becoming a question not of days nor even of hours before
10 XVII   |            of cotton; two or three days at most will suffice for
11 XVII   |           it will still be several days before any one will be able
12 XIX    |           15th.—For the first five days after the “Chancellor” had
13 XIX    |            it would be a couple of days or more before the hold
14 XIX    |          land in safety.~After two days’ toil the water was entirely
15 XX     |       Guiana, and in ten or twelve days, if the weather should be
16 XXI    |       sojourn, where we had passed days that to some at least of
17 XXII   |      Guiana in the course of a few days.~Our way was south-west
18 XXII   |           passenger.~The first few days passed without any incident
19 XXV    |             in the course of a few days we might possibly sight
20 XXV    |   top-masts she drifted for twenty days, until she came in sight
21 XXX    |            of the last seventy-two days’ voyage all are too agitated
22 XXX    |         who too probably have many days to wait ere they sight either
23 XXXII  |       Andre Letourneur to me a few days after we had embarked, “
24 XXXII  |          the course of a couple of days we had caught as many as
25 XXXVI  |     between sixteen persons! Eight days, with half a pound a day
26 XXXVII |         which during the preceding days had caused us such serious
27 XXXVII |         his chest. In the last few days his malady had made fearfully
28 XXXVII |           course of the next eight days.”~“The next eight days,”
29 XXXVII |       eight days.”~“The next eight days,” he murmured, as he looked
30 XXXVII |         get a single bite. For two days the attempt was made in
31 XXXVIII|            for no less than twenty days had we now been borne along
32 XXXVIII|          meagre ration which a few days back we had deemed so inadequate
33 XXXVIII|         perhaps, serve for several days? In the streets of a besieged
34 XXXVIII|          seem even longer than the days. Sleep, when it comes, brings
35 XXXIX  |       replied that it was now four days since the biscuit had failed.~“
36 XXXIX  |          biscuit had failed.~“Four days,” he repeated; “well, then,
37 XL     |           7th.—During the last few days since the wind has freshened,
38 XLIV   |         trying but it is now seven days since the boatswain took
39 XLIX   | unendurable than before.~Forty-two days had passed since we quitted
40 LI     |           it can only be for a few days. Whenever I raised my head
41 LII    |          know; it seemed as though days had passed since I had seen
42 LIII   |          contemplation for several days, but no one had ventured
43 LIII   |          precede the rest by a few days, or even hours. All that