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2505 XXVI | The “Chancellor’s” hull is three-fourths immerged; besides the three
2506 XXXIII | to their parched lips and throats.~The remainder of the day
2507 LII | stripping my arm, with a steady thrust I opened a small vein. The
2508 XXXV | pervaded the air, but though thunderbolts fell thick around us, not
2509 XLII | tried to induce vomiting by tickling his uvula, and he brought
2510 XVI | matter; moreover as the tide-receded she heeled over so much
2511 XLIII | several times sung out his tidings that all eyes turned to
2512 XXIX | return to the ship. Curtis tied a rope round his waist and
2513 XLIX | ferocity of an infuriated tiger; how we contrived to escape
2514 XXXV | One gust caught away the tiller, which went adrift beyond
2515 IX | knocking a hole in the ship’s timbers just on her waterline, and
2516 XXVI | vapour on the horizon were tinged with a rosy glare that foreboded
2517 XLV | assumed an uniform dull grey tint; in fact, we were enveloped
2518 XXXII | sufficient rest to relieve the tired expression that her countenance
2519 XII | long that train may be, ’tis not for me to say.” And
2520 XLVII | disease had affected his tissues, and really might be said
2521 XXXVII | narcotic, such as opium or tobacco, might have availed to soothe,
2522 XXII | But all are conscious of toiling almost against hope; we
2523 XXXIV | can safely say that the tones of the most accomplished
2524 XXVII | invectives they could lay their tongues to. So enraged were they
2525 XLIV | fetched his carpenter’s tool, which is at once a hatchet
2526 XXIX | water up to the level of the top- masts, like an eternity—
2527 XXXII | of the long watch in the top-mast, I slept for several hours;
2528 XLIX | shipwrecked men, we were tormented by thirst far more than
2529 XLIX | sinking into a condition of torpor; I made an effort, but all
2530 XXXVI | our provisions. Of all the torrents of rain that fell in the
2531 XXXIV | beyond the regions of the torrid zone, which are impregnated
2532 XLVII | my hunger, and I was now tortured with remorse, because I
2533 XXXVII | was the victim of the most torturing thirst, Miss Herbey, besides
2534 XLIV | one of us would reject the tough and untempting flesh. He
2535 XVIII | was to make the proposed tour of the reef, which is about
2536 IV | est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;” but to Mr. Ruby
2537 IV | fait pour penser. C’est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;”
2538 XX | consultation, preferred to tow the ship over the ridge,
2539 | toward
2540 XX | otherwise, she would have to be towed through the narrow passage.
2541 XXXIX | will hear us,” he said, Towering his voice, “I want you to
2542 XVII | calculations, and amuses himself by tracing mechanical diagrams with
2543 XXXI | intermediate between the tracks of the French and English
2544 VI | Sargassos Sea. An extensive tract of water is this, enclosed
2545 IV | do not go beyond retail trade, his mind having been so
2546 XXXI | favourable circumstances, with trade- winds and weather always
2547 XXXIV | ocean by the action of the trade-winds.~“Yes, Mr. Kazallon,” said
2548 IV | is the type of a vulgar tradesman. Without any originality
2549 L | perhaps more. The end of the tragedy is rapidly approaching,
2550 XXIII | would not have hesitated to transfer the passengers, and even
2551 LV | able to describe it. I was transfixed with horror, and much as
2552 1 | certain charms beyond the transit in a steamer, and reckoning
2553 XVIII | islands sometimes have a very transitory existence. Not impossibly,
2554 XVIII | crystal; and the remarkable transparency of the sea enabled us plainly
2555 XLIV | water.~The sea was quite transparent, and any object was clearly
2556 XIX | placed in the boat to be transported to the reef. After the first
2557 IV | weakness, he delights in travelling; so for the last few years
2558 XXVII | the waves made the masts tremble with their violence—I tried
2559 XXX | most sanguine amongst us trembles to face the future; the
2560 XLV | we could not suppress our trepidation lest it; should exhaust
2561 XXXII | shoal of fish, of the sparus tribe, swarmed round the raft,
2562 XXVII | were they at the dastardly trick of which they had been made
2563 XXIV | without delay by cutting and trimming the spare yards and extra
2564 XVIII | which we have not merrily trodden, and I am sure that when
2565 XLIII | raft. They were damp and troublesome to light; but the very dampness
2566 L | sharply from his worn-out trowsers. Unlike Miss Herbey, his
2567 1 | water-line upwards to the truck of her masts.~I must now
2568 XIII | Chancellor” could not bear her trysail, so there was nothing to
2569 XXXVII | the approaching end in all tuberculous complaints.~The lieutenant
2570 X | impression that their suction- tubes, running as they do to the
2571 XVIII | recent, Not a mollusc, not a tuft of seaweed was found clinging
2572 XX | monotony to the sing-song tune hummed by one of the sailors.~
2573 XXXVII | find shelter under it by turns.~But the want of food was
2574 XXXIV | appeared like embattled turrets crested with flame, and
2575 XXX | before our eyes.~Of the twenty-eight persons who left Charleston
2576 XXIV | about forty feet long and twenty-five feet wide, upon which the
2577 LVII | souls—nine passengers, and twenty-three seamen—who left Charleston
2578 VI | hundred feet in length, twine themselves up to the very
2579 XLIV | indeed, lower some cords twisted into running knots, but (
2580 IV | fellow-passengers, Mr. Ruby, is the type of a vulgar tradesman. Without
2581 XXV | did not yet despond of an ultimate rescue.~As it was necessary
2582 XXXIV | the lightning was still unaccompanied by thunder; but the dryness
2583 XVI | this was a solitary shoal, unattached to a shore, and the gloom
2584 XV | conflagration, were quite unavailable.~For three long hours, in
2585 LII | my own? It would be all unavailing, I was well aware, but scarcely
2586 LVII | we became the objects of unbounded sympathy.~The raft was brought
2587 XXVI | her, says I.”~Having thus unburdened his mind he relapsed, into
2588 IV | his son; his devotion is unceasing; every thought, every glance
2589 XIII | the stifling smoke with unchoked breath. Not a sound escapes
2590 LII | put it into execution. I unclasped my knife, and, stripping
2591 XVIII | drawn a ham!”~“Something uncommonly like it, I confess,” replied
2592 XXIV | time in a state of drowsy unconsciousness, was not informed of the
2593 IV | impressed with the man’s undecided manner and sluggish appearance.
2594 XLIII | the horizon. There, most undeniably, was the ship, and the question
2595 XII | replied the engineer. “Under-ordinary circumstances, picrate of
2596 LVII | privations which we have undergone together, it is scarcely
2597 XLIII | it no longer, but gliding underneath the tent I hid my face in
2598 II | good seaman and thoroughly understands his duties I could not for
2599 XIX | are wanting for such an undertaking; moreover, any bad weather
2600 XIII | continued to make her way with undiminished speed.~It is now a fortnight
2601 X | ordinary routine has been undisturbed. Curtis indulges the hope
2602 XI | that Mr. Ruby had been unduly excited and not conscious
2603 XLII | knees, and with a wild, unearthly shriek, exclaimed,—~“No!
2604 XXIII | the pumps will be quite unequal to their task.~Yesterday
2605 XXXIV | silent lightning is somewhat unexpressive”~“Never mind that, Andre”
2606 LIII | but one, and with a firm, unfaltering voice, marvellous for his
2607 LI | To look at him, with his unflagging energy, almost tempted me
2608 XX | Chancellor,” even when entirely unfreighted. To be sure she had been
2609 XVIII | This is by no means an unfrequented part of the Atlantic, so
2610 XX | Without delay, all sails were unfurled and trimmed to the wind.
2611 XXXVI | fell in the night we were unhappily unable to catch a single
2612 XVI | quarters being absolutely uninhabitable.~Fortunately, although the
2613 XVI | mattresses that were rescued uninjured have been given up for the
2614 L | can pronounce are almost unintelligible. Wasted and bloodless, we
2615 IV | man of about fifty, a most uninteresting companion, being overwhelmed
2616 XIII | from a safety-valve. An universal consternation seizes one
2617 | Unlike
2618 IX | freight has been compelled to unload with the utmost expedition.
2619 XX | All seemed simple. But unlooked-for difficulties had yet to
2620 XLI | should then be thirteen.~“An unlucky number!” said Andre with
2621 XXXII | for, as I said before, the unmitigated heat made our thirst at
2622 LIII | tore it to pieces. But, unperceived by all but myself, one little
2623 XXXIII | An incident sufficiently unpleasant occurred to-day. For nearly
2624 VIII | Chancellor’s” course, and to an unprejudiced eye all would appear to
2625 XXIII | years of age, and altogether unprepossessing in appearance; his face
2626 LI | upon the sea, and is an unquestionable sign that a tempest has
2627 XLII | it was perfectly flat and unrefreshing.~It was a most trying day,
2628 XII | Miss Herbey, however, is unrelaxing in her attentions, and the
2629 XII | her attentions, and the unremitted diligence with which she
2630 XIII | across the burning deck with unscathed feet, and glides through
2631 XX | and would be condemned as unseaworthy at any port at which we
2632 XXVI | cowering on their narrow and unstable platform, the spectacle
2633 II | his hands, and his slow, unsteady gait, all seem to me to
2634 XLIV | would reject the tough and untempting flesh. He determined to
2635 XXXV | assistance, and had already untied the cord that was round
2636 XLII | the barrel that had been untouched, and that water had poisoned
2637 VI | creepers, fantastic as the untrammelled tendrils of a vine, and
2638 XLIII | spared, and no means left untried, to make our position known.
2639 XLVI | to confess, it would be untrue to deny that we surveyed
2640 XXXVII | and made lines out of some untwisted hemp, to which they fixed
2641 XI | earnestly I wished them unuttered, But it was too late: their
2642 XXV | Herbey continues in her unwearied attendance. The space to
2643 XXXV | were, but the tremendous upheaval was not without its melancholy
2644 XVIII | I observed, “that some upheaving has lately taken place.
2645 VII | introduce the subject that was uppermost in my mind; finding, however,
2646 XXXV | waves. Miss Herbey stood upright and motionless as a statue.~
2647 X | tacking to the breeze, to urge her on at her utmost speed.~
2648 XLII | hot air we breathed. At my urgent solicitation the captain
2649 XXXVIII| as the rest; seemed to be urging them on to massacre the
2650 III | addition, according to the usages and customs of the sea.~“
2651 XLVIII | the tent.”~Resistance was useless, and Miss Herbey, M. Letourneur,
2652 XXXII | the sails flap idly and uselessly against the mast. Curtis
2653 | using
2654 XXVI | who seemed to question the utility of all their toil. He shook
2655 XXXV | it, the poor fellow stood uttering-cries of distress.~I tried to
2656 XLII | vomiting by tickling his uvula, and he brought off some
2657 V | CHAPTER V.~OCTOBER 7th.—This is the
2658 IV | accustomed to the sea. A vacant seat at our table is now
2659 III | cotton, of the estimated value of 26,000l., all in good
2660 LVII | remain the honoured and valued friend of those whose welfare
2661 XXII | getting out of order, the valves being choked up by the ashes
2662 XVIII | little island was destined to vanish, it was quite right that
2663 XXXIV | horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract
2664 II | arrangement of cabins, and all the variety of preparations inseparable
2665 XXXV | radiated from the fiery vault above. A strong odour of
2666 XXVII | from the south-west, had veered round to the north-west,
2667 XVII | merely, it would seem, to vegetate.~Hobart, the steward, an
2668 LI | was repeated with greater vehemence, but I never raised my head.
2669 VIII | Curtis remonstrating somewhat vehemently with Captain Huntly, but
2670 XXXIV | stars above our heads were veiled in dark rolling masses of
2671 LII | thrust I opened a small vein. The blood oozed out slowly,
2672 XVII | Curtis could afterwards verify the true position by a second
2673 XXXV | the ocean beneath, seemed verily to have taken fire, and
2674 XIII | impeded. Here on board this veritable fireship I cannot help contemplating
2675 XLII | though this globe of ours had veritably become a liquid sphere!~
2676 XXV | had snapped as she became vertically displaced, and probably
2677 XVIII | chapel that might form a fit vestibule for the cathedral cave of
2678 XXIX | been a noble vessel, not a vestige was to be seen.~
2679 VI | CHAPTER VI.~OCTOBER 8th to OCTOBER
2680 XXVI | scarcely a breath of air vibrated through the metal rigging,
2681 XVIII | hand; the same sonorous vibration of the air across the basaltic
2682 X | upon the eight-and-twenty victims who may probably, only too
2683 LIV | super-natural vision she had viewed the coast or the ship of
2684 IX | fully entered into Curtis’s views as to the absolute necessity
2685 XIV | yawl. Curtis again made a vigorous endeavour to prevent them,
2686 VII | CHAPTER VII.~OCTOBER 14th.—At last we
2687 VIII | CHAPTER VIII.~OCTOBER 15th to OCTOBER
2688 XLVI | and his pitiable groans. Vile hypocrite!~Yet why, it struck
2689 XLI | turned round quickly.~“Those villainous sharks have eaten every
2690 LVII | Transatlantic Aspinwall line, the “Ville de St. Nazaire,” which conveyed
2691 XLVIII | said Dowlas, scowling with vindictive passion on the group around
2692 VI | untrammelled tendrils of a vine, and as she works her arduous
2693 IV | Pascal says, “L’homme est visiblement fait pour penser. C’est
2694 XXXVI | the final incidents of the visitation. All that I know is, that
2695 XXIV | paid one of her flying visits to the deck, I warned her
2696 XXXVIII| that was gnawing their very vitals.~And this was only the second
2697 XXXV | electrical concussions, in which volleys of hailstones were discharged
2698 XVI | from the interior, yet its volume was far less than before.
2699 XIII | the deck are upheaved, and volumes of black smoke issue upwards
2700 LIII | once the reason of this voluntary offer; I knew that it was
2701 XVIII | timely help that had been vouchsafed us in our hour of need.~
2702 IX | terrible that can befall a voyager stared me in the face, and
2703 IV | Ruby, is the type of a vulgar tradesman. Without any originality
2704 XXVI | of paper dollars from his waistcoat pocket, and hand a number
2705 XXIV | themselves immersed up to their waists and were obliged to come
2706 V | poets,—your Moores, and your Wallers.”~“No, doubt you are right,
2707 XXXII | entertaining and as he talks, his wan and suffering countenance
2708 XVIII | rule Nature with a magic wand; first of all, you would
2709 XLIII | our glances perpetually wandered from the distant ship to
2710 VI | is every now and then a wandering in his eye, and an odd look
2711 XXXVII | on the 23rd the excessive warmth was somewhat tempered by
2712 XXVI | swell as though it felt the warnings of a coming tempest.~All
2713 XLIII | and not a cloud arose to warrant the expectation of a passing
2714 VIII | The sailors as usual were washing the deck, A great sheet
2715 XXVII | disappearance. The unhappy lady is wasting away with a fever for which
2716 IV | his most trifling wish, watches his slightest movement,
2717 XXXV | and the side of one of the water-barrels was staved in, so that the
2718 XLIII | had converted it into a water-cask, or what fatality, stranger
2719 VIII | orders for the deck to be watered again and again, and although
2720 IX | ship’s timbers just on her waterline, and letting in just as
2721 XXIII | hours, render her hull more watertight. For this purpose he had
2722 XXVI | boats sure and they found a wathery grave. Nay, nay; while the
2723 VIII | pumps was rolling in tiny wavelets, and escaping now to starboard,
2724 II | his whole carriage. His wavering glances, the listless motions
2725 1 | burden, and belongs to the wealthy Liverpool firm of Laird
2726 XXXVIII| our knives were the only weapons at our disposal, we were
2727 XXXII | countenance had lately been wearing. The night passed quietly.
2728 XXXVII | piece of the red shawl she wears, he fastened it to his hook.
2729 XXXIV | boatswain. The boatswain is only weather-wise from his experience as a
2730 XXXVII | closed by means of ropes and wedges, and that portion of the
2731 XXXII | marvellous haul was doubly welcome, inasmuch as it not only
2732 X | not reveal itself to their well-shod feet and the constant scouring
2733 XXIII | purpose he had some strong, well-tarred sails drawn upwards by ropes
2734 XLVI | the inconsistency of his well-to-do looks and his pitiable groans.
2735 1 | Charleston and Liverpool. As she wended her way through the channels
2736 XLIII | my face in my hands and wept aloud.~Meanwhile the brig
2737 XXXII | being carried along by a westerly current, that flows at the
2738 LI | that we have been carried westwards, that is to say, towards
2739 XIV | Mrs. Kear was laid in the whale- boat that hung from the
2740 XXV | venture to take out the whaleboat in search of it, and there
2741 XVI | I am as ignorant of our whereabouts as you are yourself,” said
2742 | whereas
2743 | wherein
2744 III | appurtenances. In witness whereof, I have signed three agreements,
2745 | wherever
2746 XXIII | unable to discover. But whichever might be the case, Curtis
2747 IV | she is to the ridiculous whims and fancies of a capricious
2748 XXIX | waves were eddying like a whirlpool around the submerged vessel,
2749 LI | Cardiff, offering them gin, whisky, and, above all water! Stumbling
2750 VII | conversation was carried on in whispers. The man repeatedly shook
2751 XIV | was heard but the hoarse whistling of the wind, and the mournful
2752 XXVI | floating on the dazzling whiteness of the waters, a speck that
2753 | whoever
2754 XLVI | element? Curtis expressed his willingness personally to make the attempt,
2755 XLI | have to suffice for his winding-sheet, I started back with a thrill
2756 V | out that there was land to windward, and descried what seemed
2757 XI | smuggling a single bottle of wine. He had not informed the
2758 XII | immediately offered him our best wishes, in which Lieutenant Walter
2759 XLIV | miserable carcases; yet, withal, I profess that my feelings
2760 XXXIX | the greatest difficulty to withstand the temptation to carry
2761 XLVII | enough to hear; without witnessing the appalling operation.
2762 XXVIII | had well-nigh lost their wits. Some of the more ill-disposed
2763 LII | farewell.~Towards morning I woke from my sleep, if the languid
2764 XLI | his food like a famished wolf, and it is only a wonder
2765 IX | We don’t want terrified women and cowardly men to add
2766 XXIV | sorrowfully, as though he wondered what would become of him
2767 L | emaciation they bear up wonderfully under the protracted hardships
2768 VII | covered with heavy tarpauling. Wondering; in my own mind what could
2769 XXIV | were lashing them to the wood-work to insure its floating.~
2770 XXVII | doubt as to whether the woodwork would not fall asunder before
2771 V | fundamental element in nature’s workings, who shall tell whether
2772 L | project sharply from his worn-out trowsers. Unlike Miss Herbey,
2773 LII | into which I had fallen was worthy of that name. One fixed
2774 XVII | continue propitious; it wouldn’t take many storms to knock
2775 VI | thickly covered with the wrack, called by the Spaniards “
2776 XIII | together with some sails and wraps, a compass and other instruments
2777 VI | hydrophytes; her rigging is wreathed everywhere with creepers,
2778 XXVI | it me myself that’s been wrecked nine times already? and
2779 XXXVI | survivor of so many ship wrecks. Our party is thus reduced
2780 XLVI | and seemed determined to wrest it from my grasp. We struggled
2781 XLIV | violent jerk, the cord was wrested from the boatswain’s hands;
2782 XLI | possible that any of the wretched men could have taken the
2783 XXXVIII| towards us. The miserable wretches were all drunk, for during
2784 XLV | to add what they could by wringing out the saturated sails,
2785 XXIII | furrowed with sinister-looking wrinkles, his lips curl inwards,
2786 VI | been lowered, and, as I write, the wind is blowing with
2787 XLII | most melancholy sight; he writhed with the most hideous contortions,
2788 XXVIII | occupying himself with writing down figures and memoranda
2789 X | CHAPTER X.~OCTOBER 20th AND 21st.—
2790 XI | CHAPTER XI.~What my feelings were I
2791 XII | CHAPTER XII.~OCTOBER 22nd.—Curtis has
2792 XIII | CHAPTER XIII.~OCTOBER 24th to 29th.—For
2793 XIV | CHAPTER XIV.~OCTOBER 29th:—NIGHT.—The
2794 XIX | CHAPTER XIX.~NOVEMBER 6th to NOVEMBER
2795 XL | CHAPTER XL.~JANUARY 7th.—During the
2796 XLI | CHAPTER XLI.~JANUARY 8th.—All night
2797 XLII | CHAPTER XLII.~JANUARY 9th and 10th.—On
2798 XLIII | CHAPTER XLIII.~JANUARY 11th to 14th.—Owen’
2799 XLIV | CHAPTER XLIV.~JANUARY 15th.—After this
2800 XLIX | CHAPTER XLIX.~JANUARY 20th to 22nd.—For
2801 XLV | CHAPTER XLV.~JANUARY 16th.—If the crew
2802 XLVI | CHAPTER XLVI.~JANUARY 17th.—As a natural
2803 XLVII | CHAPTER XLVII.~JANUARY 18th.—After this
2804 XLVIII | CHAPTER XLVIII.~JANUARY 19th.—All through
2805 XV | CHAPTER XV.~THE NIGHT OF THE 29th CONTINUED.—
2806 XVI | CHAPTER XVI.~OCTOBER 30th.—At the first
2807 XVII | CHAPTER XVII.~OCTOBER 30th.—Once again
2808 XVIII | CHAPTER XVIII.~OCTOBER 31st to NOVEMBER
2809 XX | CHAPTER XX.~NOVEMBER 15th to 20th.—
2810 XXI | CHAPTER XXI.~NOVEMBER 21st to 24th.—
2811 XXII | CHAPTER XXII.~NOVEMBER 24th to DECEMBER
2812 XXIII | CHAPTER XXIII.~DECEMBER 2nd and 3rd.—For
2813 XXIV | CHAPTER XXIV.~DECEMBER 4th.—The first
2814 XXIX | CHAPTER XXIX.~DECEMBER 7th.—The ship
2815 XXV | CHAPTER XXV.~NIGHT OF DECEMBER 4th.—
2816 XXVI | CHAPTER XXVI.~DECEMBER 5th.—The day was
2817 XXVII | CHAPTER XXVII.~DECEMBER 6th.—I must have
2818 XXVIII | CHAPTER XXVIII.~DECEMBER 6th CONTINUED.—
2819 XXX | CHAPTER XXX.~Will this frail float,
2820 XXXI | CHAPTER XXXI.~DECEMBER 7th CONTINUED.—
2821 XXXII | CHAPTER XXXII.~DECEMBER 8th to 17th.—When
2822 XXXIII | CHAPTER XXXIII.~DECEMBER 18th to 20th.—
2823 XXXIV | CHAPTER XXXIV.~DECEMBER 21st.—No further
2824 XXXIX | CHAPTER XXXIX.~JANUARY 5th and 6th.—The
2825 XXXV | CHAPTER XXXV.~DECEMBER 21st, NIGHT.—The
2826 XXXVI | CHAPTER XXXVI.~DECEMBER 22nd.—Daylight
2827 XXXVII | CHAPTER XXXVII.~DECEMBER 23rd to 30th—After
2828 XXXVIII| CHAPTER XXXVIII.~JANUARY 1st to 5th.—More
2829 VIII | belonging to an aristocratic yacht-club was ever subject to a more
2830 XXXVIII| by a constant desire to yawn and gape that was most distressing;
2831 XXIV | below my feet and the ocean yawned beneath me.~Some of the
2832 LIV | famished creatures who were now yearning to see him sacrificed to
2833 LIII | Dowlas. The carpenter gave a yell of relief as he heard the
2834 XLIX | the raft, uttering fearful yells. He had gained possession
2835 | yourselves
2836 LV | the words of the unhappy youth had no other effect than
2837 XXXIV | overclouded, and after the zodiacal constellations had disappeared
2838 XXXIV | the regions of the torrid zone, which are impregnated by
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