Chapter

 1 II     | inclined to believe that my few hours’ acquaintance with our captain
 2 VI     |    streaming pendants. For many hours now, the “Chancellor” has
 3 VII    |       and was soon asleep. Some hours later I was aroused by an
 4 X      |        the last four-and-twenty hours has held a steady course.
 5 XIII   |         not of days nor even of hours before we must be prepared
 6 XV     |     unavailable.~For three long hours, in anxious suspense, we
 7 XVI    |        walk upon; but after two hours’ irrigation the boards became
 8 XVII   |        least occupy us for some hours, and will relieve us from
 9 XXI    |         only work at it for two hours out of the twenty-four.”~“
10 XXI    |        for the next twenty-four hours the crew were busily employed
11 XXI    |         her onward way, and two hours later the last peak of Ham
12 XXIII  |  DECEMBER 2nd and 3rd.—For four hours we have succeeded in keeping
13 XXIII  |        might, if only for a few hours, render her hull more watertight.
14 XXIV   |        insure its floating.~Two hours later and suddenly there
15 XXV    |         last resource; in a few hours it will be ready, and at
16 XXVI   |      continued talking for some hours. The heat was intense, and
17 XXVII  |         fallen asleep for a few hours, when at four o’clock in
18 XXXI   | suggestions, and in a couple of hours’ time he had made and fixed
19 XXXII  |   top-mast, I slept for several hours; M. Letourneur and Andre
20 XXXIV  |      amongst the men. For a few hours the fish appeared again,
21 XXXIV  |   almost awful, For a couple of hours, in the vain hope of catching
22 XXXIV  |     storm which, in a couple of hours, will burst upon us with
23 XXXVI  |        not last more than a few hours; but even in that short
24 XXXVII |         for when, after several hours, he examined his lines,
25 XXXVIII| distressing; but in a couple of hours the extreme agony passed
26 XXXVIII|     managed to rest for several hours.~At six o’clock this morning
27 XLIII  |      her course for a couple of hours, she will come right athwart
28 XLIII  |         our track.”~A couple of hours! The words sounded to our
29 XLIII  |       still be visible. But the hours passed on; the fire died
30 XLIII  |       slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye
31 XLIX   |         they were reckoning our hours, and already were preparing
32 LI     |     longing for death.~How many hours passed away thus I cannot
33 LIII   |     rest by a few days, or even hours. All that we desired was
34 LVII   |       to our destination.~A few hours after we first sighted land