Part,  Chapter

1002 1,8|            the sailor, "with a little determination-" ~Pencroft had erased the
1003 3,7|          would have had difficulty in determining this at once, and still
1004 1,2|           were silenced by the louder detonations of the storm. The streets
1005 3,0|             do there? How prevent the devastations with which the convicts
1006 1,3|               situation could not but develop sentiments of confidence
1007 1,6|             the enthusiastic Pencroft developing his fanciful projects. To
1008 1,8|            carefully observed all the deviations of the passage, and notwithstanding
1009 3,7|               his eyes rested on this device, inscribed over the pediment
1010 3,5|                cried Neb. "Was it the devil who rang it?" ~No one answered. ~"
1011 3,4|       violence. Master Jup aided them dexterously, either by climbing to the
1012 2,3|          followed the route which cut diagonally across the island, and they
1013 2,2|           moment of haste. ~As to the dictionaries of natural science and Polynesian
1014 1,4|               we are going to proceed differently, but in as precise a way." ~
1015 2,0|               s milk, and, indeed, it differs from it neither in taste,
1016 2,9|             same time-that his breath dilated the glassy mass. Other quantities
1017 3,8|        construction of the vessel was diligently continued, and without offering
1018 1,1|               the globe has evidently diminished-which is proved by the number
1019 3,7|            his strength was gradually diminishing. That frame, once so robust,
1020 2,1|              the other to prevent its diminution by the beating, issued from
1021 1,4|          began to mark the successive diminutions of the stick's shadow. His
1022 2,4|            should not be necessary to dine until very late; then the
1023 2,5|       although it was not their usual dinner-hour, no one refused to strengthen
1024 1,6|            wing, but the blow did not disable it, and the jacamar ran
1025 2,4|                It was probable that a disabled vessel had been cast on
1026 3,4|         defend themselves without any disadvantage. This was a project which
1027 3,3|             find themselves in a very disadvantageous position. ~A quarter of
1028 2,1|              foam, the beach entirely disapppearing under the raging flood,
1029 2,1|                 replied the engineer, disarmed for the moment. The conversation
1030 3,5|         volcanic matter is not always disastrous, and the island had already
1031 3,8|              smoke passed between its disc and the island. The wind,
1032 1,3|        brick-field, the hunters could discern the recent passage of animals
1033 1,6|             with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have
1034 3,2|           numbered 500, under an iron discipline, threatened with terrible
1035 3,4|               A convict vessel is not disciplined like a man-of-war! Convicts
1036 2,2|            but I warn you that if you disclose your receipts to me, I shall
1037 3,3|           torn away the leafy screen, disclosed a gaping aperture in the
1038 3,3|             of anger mingled with the discomfiture of Cyrus Harding and his
1039 2,8|            and Jup without ever being disconcerted, replied to every one, watched
1040 3,8|              Pencroft, with an air of discontent. "An important thing, truly,
1041 1,2|        Suddenly, a strange concert of discordant voices resounded in the
1042 3,7|               had lost in a moment of discouragement on feeling his great responsibility.
1043 2,5|             pantomime than the finest discourse. ~The engineer's first idea,
1044 2,8|            substance, which, employed discreetly, produced admirable results. ~
1045 3,1|               No time was lost before discussing it. ~"My friends," said
1046 3,6|             curious of knowledge, but disdaining action; one of those opulent
1047 3,1|             natural foliage, and thus disguise the windows in the granite
1048 2,1|                Well, Pencroft will be disgusted!" ~"And Captain Harding
1049 1,1|             chargers, whose white and disheveled crests were streaming in
1050 3,8|             be exposed to the risk of disintegration. Although, therefore, the
1051 2,4|           companions then perceived a disordered bed, of which the damp and
1052 3,3|              sprang up, which rapidly dispelled the mist. ~The "Speedy"
1053 3,7|          animals had not been able to disperse in the forest. Nor could
1054 1,7|             The shock produced by the displacing of the air was such, that
1055 1,2|              which did not hinder the display of their wings. Black, white,
1056 3,7|              we have not the right to dispose of it. Moreover, we could
1057 1,1|    four-legged plunderers, and no one disputed this. ~After having turned
1058 2,7|          little community, after some disputes, cooing, screaming, clucking,
1059 3,8|             greater part of the cloud dissolved itself over the sea. ~"This
1060 1,2|             soon disappeared, quickly dissolving under the influence of the
1061 3,1|               carry him, but the emus distanced him with ease, so prodigious
1062 1,0|           collecting the liquor which distils from the "acer saceharinum,"
1063 3,9|               forth, thus forming two distinct streams. Above the new crater
1064 3,2|             and nothing disturbed its distinctness. Nevertheless, if the convicts
1065 1,8|              mound crowned with a few distorted trees. On the way the sailor
1066 3,0|            the profound physiological disturbance he had gone through, threatened
1067 2,3|          proceeded towards the south, disturbing numerous flocks of sea-birds
1068 1,4|          gravely strutting. They were divers, easily recognized by their
1069 1,2|                reposed in a border of diversified trees. Towards the east,
1070 1,1|              such varied ground. This diversity of aspect, logically only
1071 3,2|              arrived at the partition dividing the aftercabin, and found
1072 1,9|             replied Harding; "it will do-for this morning at least." ~
1073 3,1|               boy submitted with such docility to all the prescriptions
1074 2,5|               lighthouse, a pier, and dock! Ah! really with you, captain,
1075 1,3|               sea, a carpenter in the dockyards in Brooklyn, assistant tailor
1076 1,9|               ill, since there are no doctors in the island?" asked Pencroft
1077 3,3|        Spilett and Neb had arrived by dodging behind the rocks, though
1078 1,1|        half-open jaws of a formidable dog-fish. ~From the northeast to
1079 1,4|               time thus invaded their domains. Pencroft recognized the
1080 2,9|         attempt was also made for the domestication of the peccaries, which
1081 2,6|       reinstating themselves in their domicile and driving out the intruders,
1082 1,5|              was only one thing to be done-to await the return of Neb
1083 2,6|             know who I am-what I have done-why I was there-alone? And who
1084 3,0|              had administered further doses of pounded bark, but the
1085 2,8|       mountain. It was a meadow land, dotted here and there with clumps
1086 3,5|              of Morgat, in the bay of Douarnenez, in Brittany, the caves
1087 3,9|           Pencroft, each armed with a double-barreled gun, and Gideon Spilett
1088 1,1|              which go to Australia by doubling Cape Horn. I wish to hide
1089 2,4|               Pencroft shook his head doubtfully. ~"We must try at any rate,"
1090 2,6|           past life-a melancholy life doubtless-and the colonists, without losing
1091 2,0|              The "Bonadventure" would doubtlessly not have capsized, for she
1092 2,5|             each wished to have their doubts set at rest, and by returning
1093 2,7|              female, of a fine shape, dove-colored, the legs and tail white,
1094 1,8|           that a hundred feet farther down-" ~"Where is Top?" asked
1095 1,1|              any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the
1096 3,7|            bed of her child. ~Herbert dozed again, but his sleep appeared
1097 3,1|                and thus lay the first draft of a road which would place
1098 3,6|              mound crowned by several dragon trees, on the left bank
1099 3,1|      casuarinas, banksias, gum-trees, dragon-trees, and other well-known species,
1100 2,8|       extracted from the roots of the dragonnier, Harding had added a regular
1101 1,1|           place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being
1102 1,2|              superbly crested, others draped in green, like their congeners
1103 3,6|             for the "Nautilus," whose draught of water was considerable. ~
1104 1,9|           Chimneys, on account of the draughts, had become scarcely habitable.
1105 1,5|               the holes which made it draughty. Sand, stones, twisted branches,
1106 3,3|             the Mercy, from which the drawbridges had been raised, so as to
1107 1,2|           enriched by his letters and drawings, for he was as skilful in
1108 3,5|        mysterious place as the magnet draws iron. ~Thus they almost
1109 1,8|        slippery, and falls were to be dreaded. But the settlers were all
1110 1,9|            cried the sailor. ~"I feel dreadfully weak," replied Harding. "
1111 1,2|            and could not refrain from dreaming of many strange improbabilities.
1112 1,8|             returned from the land of dreams. ~"The torches will soon
1113 3,4|             to make him a well-padded dressing-gown. But what a servant he was,
1114 3,3|             been raised, she began to drift towards the shore. The wind
1115 3,1|           involuntarily, and his head drooped upon his hands. ~Did not
1116 1,9|               to breathe." ~"Won't he drown?" asked Neb. ~"No," replied
1117 1,9|               yet realize his plan of drowning this opening under the waters
1118 2,2|          there is in the stomach of a drunkard. Jump in!" ~They were soon
1119 3,2|              were already buried in a drunken sleep, Ayrton did not hesitate
1120 3,2|            sleepers, overcome more by drunkenness than sleep. A lantern was
1121 2,0|             opinion of the naturalist Duffenbach, might pass for cow's milk,
1122 3,8|               to me that I can hear a dull, rumbling sound, like that
1123 2,4|            intellect, to rekindle his dulled soul. The dwelling was not
1124 2,8|           thousand millions of grains duly appeared in the crop. However,
1125 2,0|            soon those capricious sand dunes, among which the engineer
1126 1,6|            which were supplied from a dwarf acacia bush) were fastened
1127 3,3|           rate, there was no trace of dwellings. Had the inhabitants fled
1128 2,5|          incidents of the voyage, and dwelt on the curious fact of the
1129 2,9|              miles further even these dwindled into solitary groups among
1130 3,4|             scoundrels of the deepest dye, and it was necessary that
1131 2,2|           from certain plants used in dyeing, and which were very abundant
1132 1,1|              this agent, of which the dynamic power in the interior of
1133 2,6|           mill, for the settlers were eager to taste the first piece
1134 2,5|              for a quarter of an hour earlier or later it would have been
1135 3,6|           instilled into him from his earliest days. ~Prince Dakkar returned
1136 1,0|              Neb worked away there as earnestly as if he was in a chemist'
1137 1,3|              state of minerals, their earthenware in the state of clay, their
1138 3,5|             to be feared. In fact, an earthquake-a phenomenon which often accompanies
1139 3,8|           unfrequently accompanied by earthquakes; and an island of the nature
1140 1,6|            still, if they are good to eat-" ~"They are good to eat,
1141 1,4|              right if we wait till it ebbs," replied the sailor, "and
1142 2,3|             cordage; and two or three ebony trees of a beautiful black,
1143 2,6|         prolonged "Halloo!" which was echoed again and again from the
1144 1,9|             meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal." ~"
1145 1,8|            motionless. Herbert was in ecstasies, Neb bounded with joy, Pencroft
1146 1,7|             and the end of the cliff, eddies of wind whirled and gusts
1147 1,2|             In some places, the wind, eddying round the corners, formed
1148 3,5|           opening broken in the upper edge-the matter would be thrown to
1149 1,6|              frontal plate, and wings edged with white. It was a "coot,"
1150 1,0|               the first stone of some edifice? It recalled to Pencroft
1151 2,1|              reach the address of its editor, the Honorable James Bennett! ~
1152 2,6|            young, and will be easy to educate, and we shall not be obliged
1153 3,8|           their cicatrization without effecting any inflammatory reaction.
1154 1,2|           well prepared, could now be effectively employed. The first attempts
1155 3,8|             vibrations are due to the effervescence of the central fire. The
1156 2,9|           were the size of a pigeon's egg, Pencroft's first thought
1157 2,8|        hundred and fifty. ~"A regular egg-field," observed Gideon Spilett, "
1158 3,7|             blocked up; but, although egress is impossible, the vessel
1159 1,2|               the mind thoughts of an elaborate manufactory with apparatus
1160 2,0|            hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and
1161 2,8|              its natural softness and elasticity; then, exposed to the action
1162 2,9|               cups of the infusion of elder-berries, which took the place of
1163 2,8|             collected, therefore, was elder-pith, for as to the other substance
1164 2,1|            coal, after a good dinner, elderberry coffee smoking in the cups,
1165 3,7|            the machine-room where the electrical apparatus was established,
1166 3,5|            Might not its influence of electricity-" ~Herbert did not finish
1167 3,3|              labyrinth of valleys and elevations. It was evident that there,
1168 3,4|            supplied the best oaks and elms. They took advantage of
1169 3,1|             the brig could be nothing else-already visited the island, since
1170 3,3|        evinced in such a manner as to elude all tokens of gratitude,
1171 3,9|               few hours in raising an embankment three feet high and some
1172 3,3|          suppress his emotion when he embraced Herbert, his boy! and then
1173 1,7|       reporter could not refrain from embracing the generous boy. ~Bad weather
1174 3,5|          right up into Granite House; embrasures were made between the windows,
1175 1,2|        practical, he fulfilled in all emergencies those three conditions which
1176 2,8|            that is to say, acid which emits white vapors when it comes
1177 2,0|                 exclaimed the sailor, emitting a volume of smoke from his
1178 2,7|            they were never in want of employment. ~The stranger worked alone,
1179 1,2|      prevented it from contracting an empyreumatic flavor. ~After boiling for
1180 3,1|             sort of cassowary, called emu, five feet in height, and
1181 3,1|              could carry him, but the emus distanced him with ease,
1182 1,1|               less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air. ~In
1183 1,3|               as the most beautifully enameled china. We must mention here
1184 1,1|             the moment when the frost enchained it. To the fuel which was
1185 3,5|            transported into a land of enchantment. ~Stretched on a rich sofa
1186 2,9|               some difficulties to be encountered; but, after several fruitless
1187 2,0|               the waves, which always endanger small craft. The "Bonadventure"
1188 3,1|           colonize it definitely, and endow the American Republic with
1189 3,7|              things, and beyond human endurance. I die of having thought
1190 3,9|               endure while this earth endures. It is doomed to more or
1191 3,7|          Herbert was already too much enfeebled by the loss of blood. ~The
1192 3,3|               when they were about to engage in a decisive action. Gideon
1193 3,6|               times wounded in twenty engagements, seeking death but finding
1194 2,7|              a steam cart, or even an engine, for some day we shall have
1195 1,2|           means or other. He knew the engineer-officer by reputation; he knew with
1196 2,1|               employ. Where Harding's engineering qualifications now came
1197 1,2|           school. He was one of those engineers who began by handling the
1198 1,4|      longitudes concurrently with the English-it followed that the island
1199 2,8|              have the answer to these enigmas?" ~"Yes!" replied the engineer
1200 1,4|              had been found after his enigmatical preservation. They halted
1201 2,1|           profit to all. ~It was real enjoyment to the settlers when in
1202 3,6|          powerful ruler of a free and enlightened people. ~Still, for long
1203 3,4|          workers, and what good humor enlivened the evenings in Granite
1204 2,8|               the settlers, and which enraptured Pencroft. ~"Jup, some soup!" ~"
1205 2,3|     sufficient to collect the seed to enrich the soil of Lincoln Island. ~"
1206 3,1|          breeze fell also. The brig's ensign hung in folds, and it became
1207 3,0|            said Neb. ~During the five ensuing days Cyrus Harding and his
1208 3,8|         should shake the island might entail the gravest consequences. ~"
1209 3,7|             still participate in your enterprises, and I fear not but that
1210 2,8|        consequence of some suspicions entertained by the engineer and Gideon
1211 3,5|            Harding," resumed Pencroft enthusiastically, "you will be still the
1212 2,0|               the afternoon, Herbert, enticed by the charms of the sky,
1213 2,7|            doubt read, and which is ~ entitled, "Captain Grant's children."
1214 3,6|           Several times Cyrus Harding entreated him to repose for a while,
1215 3,0|               Ayrton, he poured forth entreaties to that mysterious being,-
1216 3,5|        ordnance, which, at Pencroft's entreaty, were hoisted by means of
1217 3,9|            The courageous Negro, well entrenched in the depths of Granite
1218 1,1|              up the land, but now she entrusts to these microscopic creatures
1219 1,9|             the sea; to the right, an entry with a door, which would
1220 2,0|                 As Cyrus Harding thus enumerated, without forgetting one,
1221 2,0|             did not wish to taint the environs of Granite House, and in
1222 2,4|             Spilett, how I admire and envy you!" cried Herbert, in
1223 2,8|               the comb, caruncle, and epidermis being black. So far, everything
1224 2,6|                treated any one to the epithet of "son of John Bull," he
1225 3,5|              thousands from the first epochs of the formation of the
1226 1,4|         distance from the pole to the equator-there remained thirty-seven degrees.
1227 3,6|          requirements of his floating equipage, as a moving, lighting,
1228 3,2|              That would depend on the equipment of the brig, and the number
1229 2,7|                The 'Duncan' yacht was equipped for the distant voyage,
1230 1,4|           means of the plumb-line, to erect it perpendicularly with
1231 1,1|              forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and
1232 3,5|            often accompanies volcanic eruption-is enough to change the interior
1233 2,6|          something to be done. As the esculents increased in number, it
1234 3,0|              means for extracting its essence. ~Cyrus Harding went himself
1235 2,8|             chance happen to think of establishing a telegraph?" ~"Exactly
1236 1,2|               in view of these future establishments, it became of much importance
1237 1,2|          Negro born on the engineer's estate, of a slave father and mother,
1238 3,4|              by notarial deed all the estates which will come to me some
1239 2,3|              distant according to his estimation. ~The voyage was continued,
1240 1,4|            sign "&," which signifies "et cetera" abridged, but by
1241 3,7|            shall I sleep the sleep of eternity, if-" replied the captain. ~
1242 2,3|               bears pomegranates; the Eugeacia Cauliflora, the fruit of
1243 2,3|             an esteemed cinnamon; the Eugenia Pimenta, from whence comes
1244 2,1|          later. As to what they were, Europeans or Malays, enemies or friends
1245 3,9|            other that of Falls River, evaporating those watercourses in its
1246 3,6|              he was ever grave-somber even-devoured by an unquenchable thirst
1247 2,2|              it was seen that she lay evenly in the water, and would
1248 3,6|             months of the strange and eventful navigation of the "Nautilus"
1249 3,8|             delay. In presence of the eventualities which might arise, the safety
1250 3,9|        contained in the lake, it must eventually be absorbed, because it
1251 3,1|              to us might be to create everlasting regrets." ~It was therefore
1252    | Everyone
1253 3,5|               Yes! all was explained, everything-except the presence of the torpedo
1254 3,4|         Pencroft was convinced by the evidence of his own eyes that the
1255 3,0|      destruction. But after all, this evil would have been more easily
1256 2,2|              of his own, the sailor's ex-pipe, which was hung in his room
1257 3,5|          could not be calculated with exactitude. ~The second gun was pointed
1258 3,9|           Cyrus Harding had in no way exaggerated the danger to be apprehended.
1259 3,5|              companions, and, without exaggerating the state of things, he
1260 2,2|        incident, and he cited several examples of tame apes, to whom the
1261 2,6|          although his strong mind was exasperated at being confronted with
1262 1,4|          molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone;
1263 1,2|              in each hand. Their size exceeded that of a rabbit, their
1264 2,9|              The passengers, with the exception of the sailor, scarcely
1265 1,7|       sulphuret of iron-the latter in excess-it was necessary to separate
1266 2,0|             first time, could not but excite their surprise to the highest
1267 2,0|             voice was heard repeating excitedly,-~"Tobacco! real tobacco!" ~"
1268 3,8|               the light of a joke, to exclaim,-~"Ah! the giant is playing
1269 1,0|          different occupations, which excluded neither hunting nor fishing,
1270 3,8|              important labors, to the exclusion of almost all others. At
1271 1,4|          nitrogen, and if a man lived exclusively on them, he would have to
1272 3,6|             Harding busied himself in executing a project which would completely
1273 3,1|             the contrary, Herbert was exempted from guard. Pencroft and
1274 1,9|               formed for this sort of exercise. But Pencroft was such a
1275 3,6|               the incidents which had exercised so beneficent an influence
1276 3,1|              influence had been again exerted, and in a critical moment,
1277 1,9|              had turned down, and was exerting himself to rub them. The
1278 1,8|             and after half an hour of exertion, he sank, dragging Top with
1279 3,9|               any convulsion. All the exertions of the voyagers were therefore
1280 1,8|             but producing no mephitic exhalation. ~"Well, my dear Cyrus,"
1281 2,0|           surprised at the odor which exhaled from certain plants with
1282 2,3|               use of which would soon exhaust their limited stock. However,
1283 1,4|             dozens and dozens without exhausting the bed. Shall we take some
1284 2,2|        pronounced sailors alone could exhibit. It appeared to be in a
1285 2,8|              as willingly before this exhibition as he would have done before
1286 3,5|               whether shipwrecked, or exiled on our island, we shall
1287 2,8|               been a newspaper to the exiles in Lincoln Isla nd! For
1288 3,9|               whose steam is suddenly expanded by intense heat. The water,
1289 1,2|             menura, the tail of which expands gracefully like a lyre. ~
1290 1,1|        resorted to the only remaining expedient. They were truly dauntless
1291 3,4|            Neb was noted for being an expeditious cook. They breakfasted,
1292 1,5|             to say, to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone.
1293 1,7|              sulphuric acid is a very expensive manufacture. Considerable
1294 2,7|         sometimes chemists, sometimes experimentalists. The reporter never left
1295 2,7|               He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which
1296 3,8|             almost all others. At the expiration of two months and a half
1297 3,7|               my country!" he quietly expired. ~Cyrus Harding, bending
1298 1,2|              many things, principally explaining to them the practical applications
1299 3,8|              without offering further explanations the engineer pushed forward
1300 1,7|          substance would burn without exploding. ~Cyrus Harding could certainly
1301 2,9|             extremely nourishing; its exportation was formerly forbidden by
1302 2,2|         Gideon Spilett, who sometimes expostulated with him for spoiling the
1303 1,5|              in a bird's beak, and an extendible tongue, covered with little
1304 3,4|               these pirates have been exterminated!" ~And Cyrus Harding, hurrying
1305 1,1|            because he felt capable of extorting from this wild country everything
1306 3,7|          events of this, so to speak, extra-human existence, the character
1307 3,0|           since they had no means for extracting its essence. ~Cyrus Harding
1308 2,1|        thousand, and that the rate of extraction will be doubled." ~"Doubtless;
1309 2,3|              trees, the giants of the extratropical zone, the congeners of the
1310 2,0|         cetacean would not be able to extricate itself easily; at any rate
1311 2,4|              lastly, that the bamboos exude a sweet liquor which can
1312 1,1|          regular telescopes under his eyebrows. ~From the ocean their gaze
1313 2,0|         Harding conceived the idea of fabricating certain machines, which
1314 1,0|        looking the sailor full in the face-"Pencroft," he asked quietly, "
1315 3,9|             rushing as the new crater faced the east, and consequently
1316 3,6|            superstition made them the facile tools of their designing
1317 1,9|            time. He dreamed of canals facilitating the transport of the riches
1318 3,1|               glass. The day began to fade, and with the day the breeze
1319 3,7|            Pencroft. ~"Life is simply fading out," replied the reporter. ~"
1320 1,3|             reporter. "Perhaps he has fainted or is wounded, and unable
1321 3,0|               but a succession of the fainting fits. Herbert's thin hands
1322 2,3|          except to show themselves at fairs!" ~"I think that you are
1323 1,1|             met with in Chile, in the Falkland Islands, and in all parts
1324 1,2|    principally distinguished by rapid fallings of the temperature. It is
1325 3,4|             the hull to the stern the false keel had been separated
1326 2,7|           which the wings open like a fan, and which by the brilliancy
1327 1,1|           would fall by the hand of a fanatic. ~ ~
1328 3,6|            the wretched and misguided fanatics; he was ten times wounded
1329 3,3|               island, and the wildest fancies haunted their excited imaginations.
1330 1,6|               Pencroft developing his fanciful projects. To attack this
1331 1,0|               short by the ridge of a fantastically-shaped spur, which formed a powerful
1332 3,8|            eruption had occurred at a far-distant epoch. ~He then returned
1333 2,6|              answered the engineer. ~"Farewell, then!" he cried, and fled
1334 2,3|               covered by a network of farrows containing a red, sweet-smelling
1335 1,5|        instruments, of course roughly fashioned, were also manufactured;
1336 3,6|              returned to the mountain fastnesses of Bundelkund. There, alone
1337 2,4|                and it is the right of fathers to be often uneasy when
1338 1,0|              and his companions, much fatigued by an ascent of seven hours,
1339 1,6|                before undertaking new fatigues, must first of all recruit
1340 2,6|             has severely expiated his faults, whatever they may have
1341 3,9|              incident was, therefore, favorably interpreted at the corral,
1342 3,3|         inclination of Mount Franklin favors the flow of water towards
1343 3,9|            the island. What a sad and fearful sight, and how painful to
1344 1,1|            there in flocks, and those fearless birds allowed themselves
1345 1,5|           hundreds of penguins looked fearlessly at them. The hunters, armed
1346 1,4|               rounded at both ends, a feature which is not remarked in
1347 3,0|             we need a febrifuge." ~"A febrifuge-" answered the engineer. "
1348 3,8|          ashes as small as the finest feculae, were held in suspension
1349 1,0|      destruction, which arrests their fecundity, these plants would overrun
1350 1,2|          together in the ranks of the Federals. ~The two Americans had
1351 3,2|           approached the window, then feebly lighted by the inner light. ~
1352 3,8|              be ten feet or a hundred feet-it was impossible to say. But
1353 1,0|              of an infinity of little feldspar crystals. ~In approaching
1354 3,4|     companions employed themselves in felling and carting trees to furnish
1355 2,1|             in a good condition to be felted. ~The engineer, aided by
1356 2,6|              occupied with moving the felting mill, but, after some consultation,
1357 2,8|             was the time at which the females, going to find suitable
1358 2,4|                surrounded by a wooden fence falling to pieces, was the
1359 1,6|            Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez and on the archipelago of
1360 2,6|              as such, had neither the ferocity of the gorilla, nor the
1361 1,2|       interest was concerned went and ferreted everywhere with an instinct
1362 3,9|               backwards and forwards, ferreting among the grass and bushes
1363 2,9|             in the Pacific." ~Herbert fetched the atlas, and the map of
1364 2,7|         settlers now began to talk of fetching the balloon-case, which
1365 3,3|            coast. Here the trees were fewer. Stones took the place of
1366 2,0|            blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at
1367 2,2|                They were a species of ficoide, some similar to those of
1368 1,7|             on the shore, glass-wort, ficoides, and all those fucaceae
1369 1,4|             wind shrieks like so many fiends." ~Herbert and Pencroft
1370 2,2|              while the colpeos rushed fiercely through the gloom. Harding,
1371 1,2|               accustomed to brave the fiercest tempests of the ocean, he
1372 3,5|              rolled and sparkled like fiery balls when they crossed
1373 1,4|               between the hundred and fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth
1374 2,8|             But the thermometer marks fifty-eight degrees!" observed Gideon
1375 1,4|          fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of
1376 1,4|               say, on the hundred and fifty-second degree of west longitude. ~
1377 1,4|            which it was easy to trace figures with a sharp shell. He then
1378 2,1|             of the property which the filaments of wool possess when subjected
1379 2,8|               were sharpened with the file, having been introduced
1380 2,9|              sawed, they planed, they filed, they turned; and during
1381 2,2|              or mattock, 6 chisels, 2 files, 3 hammers, 3 gimlets, 2
1382 2,4|            the part of the transverse film which forms the joint, useful
1383 1,8|               by the rains, and which filtered through the sand; but nothing
1384 2,2|        receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth." ~ ~
1385 1,3|              in rising. it was only a fine-weather mist. A hot sun soon penetrated
1386 1,2|             gray. He had one-of those finely-developed heads which appear made
1387 1,3|           then to raise the edge on a finer stone. Now sandstone was
1388 3,5|               in their sides. Such is Fingal's Cave, in the island of
1389 2,1|           over, rolled it between his finger and thumb; then, turning
1390 1,5|               stumps, spread out like fins, ornamented with feathers
1391 2,0|               with more wildness, the fiords of Norway. The "Bonadventure,"
1392 1,0|               In isolated groups rose fir-trees, which, some hundred feet
1393 2,1|               must have issued from a firearm, and who but a human being
1394 3,2|          still undischarged. Two were fired-one, aimed at Bob Harvey, did
1395 3,0|               been an island on terra firma. ~There, under the intelligent
1396 2,6|            friend," said Harding in a firmer voice, "look at me, I wish
1397 3,5|          gleams of light. Harding was first-Ayrton last. On they went, step
1398 1,2|            native of Massachusetts, a first-class engineer, to whom the government
1399 1,4|              the captain will make us first-rate guns." ~"Oh!" replied the
1400 1,1|               a solitary cabin, not a fishery on the shore. No smoke curling
1401 3,5|               ironclad as easily as a fishing-boat! ~Yes! all was explained,
1402 2,4|           contained even two or three fishing-boats. It served as a neck to
1403 1,6|           lines, not snares, but real fishing-lines. He took Herbert to some
1404 1,6|        Pencroft resolved to make some fishing-rods, so as to try and catch
1405 2,0|              was prepared, and a keel five-and-thirty feet long, furnished with
1406 3,4|              this allowing a width of five-and-twenty feet to the midship beam.
1407 2,8|              him nearly five thousand five-hundred years to finish his task,
1408 1,2|        captain?" ~The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke, and
1409 1,1|               the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds,
1410 2,8|               air in such innumerable flakes that the light of the sun
1411 1,8|              agitate in its depths. A flaming branch was again thrown
1412 3,4|          heighten the palisade and to flank it with a sort of blockhouse,
1413 3,2|             and Jup skirmished on the flanks, springing right and left
1414 2,1|             satin, alpaca, cloth, nor flannel. It was "Lincolnian felt,"
1415 1,8|            sparkled on the walls. The flaring torches began to grow dim.
1416 2,1|            and planking, but simply a flat-bottomed canoe, which would be well
1417 2,8|             of view. The turtle soup, flavored with aromatic herbs, often
1418 2,8|             textile fiber of hemp and flax, in paper, the pith of the
1419 2,4|            some corner of his brain a fleeting remembrance which recalled
1420 2,0|             Bonadventure,' but if the fleets of the Union were in want
1421 3,7|               oeuvres of the Italian, Flemish, French, and Spanish masters;
1422 2,2|             of the Cape, with eatable fleshy leaves, others bearing seeds
1423 2,1|           which, if it diminished the flexibility of the stuff, increased
1424 2,3|               from the bushes escaped flights of little birds, which glittered
1425 1,1|             soil was formed of clayey flint-earth, mingled with vegetable
1426 1,8|          distant point. When a corpse floats a little distance from a
1427 3,4|          explained by the presence of floes or icebergs comparatively
1428 1,0|              son of maple-tree, which flourishes in all the temperate zones,
1429 2,9|              containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody
1430 2,0|        bearing grape-like clusters of flowers and very small berries.
1431 1,4|          place empty, and the machine flown away!" ~"I am utterly indifferent
1432 2,9|             but the barometer did not fluctuate by sudden movements, and
1433 1,1|             passage, it preserved its fluidity, and arrived at an interior
1434 2,0|               its enormously powerful flukes, on which it supported itself,
1435 1,2|            sides, as through a prism, fluttering about and producing a deafening
1436 2,5|           rocks in the bay, forming a foamy fringe. From this point
1437 3,4|             earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at
1438 3,5|             their base. The brilliant focus of light, pointed out by
1439 3,9|              disaster would have been folly-nay, madness. In presence of
1440 1,0|              crater widened, appeared Fomalhaut of the Fish, the Southern
1441 3,7|             His glance seemed to rest fondly for the last time on these
1442 1,0|              am nothing better than a fool!" ~"Well, they would make
1443 3,3|               the convicts will be so foolish as to remain in a position
1444 3,1|           hour after he had been sent for-Ayrton arrived at Granite House.
1445 3,8|            replenish the provision of forage for those animals. It was
1446 1,5|              seeing him again?" ~"God forbid!" replied the sailor. Their
1447 2,9|               those mares-tails don't forbode anything good." ~These mares-tails
1448 1,5|              where the channel left a ford passable at low tide. The
1449 1,3|             is possible we may find a fordable passage." "You are right,"
1450 1,5|              not been deceived in his forebodings; the engineer, Cyrus Harding,
1451 3,2|               bowsprit arrived at the forecastle. Then, gliding among the
1452 2,2|             in the rear pushed on the foremost assailants, and it was an
1453 3,8|         consist in that! Captain Nemo foresaw it clearly! No, the danger
1454 1,0|           animals were seen under the forest-trees. Top quickly started them,
1455 2,7|             had produced the ten ears foretold by the engineer, and each
1456 3,3|              the sea; the jib and the foretopsail were hoisted, and the vessel
1457 2,7|     fellow-creatures. Ayrton, you are forgiven! And now you will be our
1458 2,9|         remarked the sailor, "that we forgot to take that precaution
1459 2,6|          clean boots, handle a knife, fork, and spoon properly, and
1460 1,6|               as the deaf vipers with forked tails, which rise up under
1461 2,5|           found nothing, some curious formations of the rocks having deceived
1462 2,1|           feel if you were obliged to forsake it, you are the first to
1463 1,5|          anything!" Then his strength forsaking him, "Oh! I can do no more!"
1464 3,5|               November, "now that our fortifications are finished, it would be
1465 1,6|            replied Pencroft, "we will fortify ourselves against savages
1466 3,4|            which he had conceived for fortifying the corral. It appeared
1467 3,1|               so effectually over the fortunes of the colony. ~Of Lincoln
1468 2,3|             myrtaceae, which contains forty-six genera and thirteen hundred
1469 2,1|          behind by the large temporal fossae hidden under the long roof. ~"
1470 3,1|              out like the waters of a fountain, locust-trees, on the long
1471 1,1|             probable visit from these four-legged plunderers, and no one disputed
1472 2,0|           five or six great whiffs. A fragrant blue cloud soon arose, and
1473 2,6|             the spot chosen. The four frames which formed the sails had
1474 3,6|           professor, on his return to France, had published that work
1475 2,7|                   This man spoke in a frank voice and with a confident
1476 1,6|              their descent from Mount Frankl in. Cyrus Harding ascertained
1477 2,9|           have never thanked you; but frankly, without that fire we should
1478 3,1|            vicinity of the island was fraught with no danger. ~Pencroft,
1479 3,5|     ungrateful, if we think ourselves freed from gratitude towards him.
1480 2,0|             my friends; well, when it freezes, I will bend them, and then
1481 2,8|             for the time when winter, freezing up the streams, would render
1482 1,1|             is considerably below the freezing-point. The next day, the 30th
1483 2,2|               the nomenclature was in French-but which also bore neither
1484 3,2|              stream had been recently frequented-nothing announced either the presence
1485 2,4|               but at the same time it freshened, which might render navigation
1486 2,9|             wind was right astern and freshening rapidly. ~"However," observed
1487 1,8|           began to climb again. ~Soon fresher air was felt. The drops
1488 1,1|               of the coast. ~"Is it a freshwater lake?" asked Pencroft. ~"
1489 3,0|             they had arrived poor and friendless, that island which, during
1490 3,4|      uneasiness of the orang. The two friends-for they were such-no longer
1491 2,6|              of their companions, and frightened by the noise of the firearms,
1492 3,0|           sullen anger, walked to and fro on the rock. Herbert did
1493 1,6|            short beak, very developed frontal plate, and wings edged with
1494 3,2|            indeed, through the window fronting them, they saw glimmering
1495 3,4|             before the arrival of the frosts and bad weather. During
1496 2,6|             towards the stranger, who frowned when he saw him approaching.
1497 2,7|               All Ayrton's plans were frustrated! He became outrageous. They
1498 1,9|               belongs to the order of Fucacae, of the genus Sargassum,
1499 1,7|               ficoides, and all those fucaceae which form wrack. A large
1500 1,2|              had startled him. ~"This fue," said he, "or rather, this
1501 2,6|          persisted in saying that the fugitive would return. ~"Yes, he