Part,  Chapter

2002 1,9|            unconsciousness, which the jolting to which he had been subjected
2003 2,9|            replaced it, made frequent journeys to the corral, and when
2004 3,1|          walked in front. Top bounded joyfully along. Herbert offered a
2005 1,9|                Herbert confident, Neb joyous, Pencroft murmuring aside,-~"
2006 2,0|               the beach, and Jup came joyously to meet them, giving vent
2007 2,0|              with one of the greatest joys of his life. ~On that day,
2008 1,6|             and Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez and on the archipelago
2009 1,4|              and brought it back in a jug, which Neb had provided. ~
2010 1,2|            formed on the south by the junction of the lake's bank. It was
2011 1,6|            were pecking, those of the juniper-tree among others. Suddenly a
2012 2,6|             known, he might be called Jupiter, and Jup for short. ~And
2013 2,1|            entire; but points of rock jutted out here and there, and
2014 3,1|           found groups of magnificent kauries, their cylindrical trunks,
2015 2,6|             jaguar fell. The stranger kicked away the body, and was about
2016 3,2|             who retorted by oaths and kicks. Ayrton was, therefore,
2017 2,8|            beds, where grew lettuces, kidney potatoes, sorrel, turnips,
2018 1,9|             proceeding. Savages often kindle wood by means of rapid rubbing.
2019 2,3|            that he had not killed the king of eatable birds. It was
2020 1,6|                closely resembling the king-fisher, but its plumage was not
2021 2,3|        beautiful bird, resembling the kingfisher. ~"I recognize him!" cried
2022 3,6|        captain, fell on his knees and kissed his hand. ~A tear glistened
2023 2,2|       utensils which Neb covered with kisses! ~In short, the colonists
2024 3,2|       frequently occurring trees were knaries and eucalypti of gigantic
2025 1,5|           getting wet higher than the knee. ~Harding then put his foot
2026 2,8|               and sock-the latter not knitted, of course, but made of
2027 3,4|             captain," asked Pencroft, knitting his brows, "why should our
2028 2,2|            its sides by strong ropes, knotted with a skill which Pencroft
2029 2,2|           followed by Jup, armed with knotty cudgel, which he brandished
2030 3,4|               Oh! this time, we shall know-" answered the engineer quickly. ~"
2031 1,2|          latitude as the provinces of La Plata, it is not surprising
2032 1,9|          sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits
2033 2,6|         stranger had begun to use the laboring tools, and he worked in
2034 3,7|    neighborhood? Reply by Top." ~This laconic note contained all that
2035 3,2|            all would be over! ~"Help, lads!" shouted Bob Harvey. ~At
2036 1,9|            the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly
2037 1,8|              my master, and then have lain down on his grave to die!" ~
2038 3,2|         convicts will have made their lair." ~"Then, captain, straight
2039 3,5|            sea; others contain entire lakes in their sides. Such is
2040 2,9|           also increased, and several lambs already bleated in the sheds,
2041 3,3|               certainly a thing to be lamented by the colonists, and it
2042 2,5|            trace of any old or recent landings; no debris, no mark of an
2043 3,3|               the bearings of certain landmarks which would allow them to
2044 2,6|             have a good effect in the landscape!" ~They set to work by choosing
2045 2,9|         science, and the reporter for languages, masters who were delighted
2046 3,2|                which the extinguished lanterns now left in total darkness.
2047 1,1|     continents chiefly inhabited. The Laplanders and the Samoides will find
2048 2,3|              on, Herbert remarked the lardizabala, a twining shrub which,
2049 1,6|            strung the couroucous like larks on flexible twigs, they
2050 2,4|               taken the precaution of lashing themselves to the deck,
2051 2,2|         153deg W. long., 37deg 11' S. lat." ~ ~
2052 3,6|              Harding raised the inner latch of the gate and was about
2053 3,6|             certainly been done quite lately." ~"To the corral! to the
2054 2,2|               by means of the turning lathe. It therefore happened that
2055 2,4|             bamboo, cut into flexible laths, is used for making baskets;
2056 2,3|             porpoises?" ~And Pencroft laughed at his joke. ~By the evening,
2057 3,3|           carefully examined the high lava-cliffs of Shark Gulf from the base
2058 3,9|               closed to them, and the lava-torrent, flowing over the edge of
2059 1,9|           satisfied, and Pencroft was lavish in his praise of what he
2060 1,2|           whatever it was, would be a lawful prize, and the rodents or
2061 2,3|               cast up, which would be lawfully their prizes. In the event
2062 2,4|           extend to the sea. Beyond a lawn, surrounded by a wooden
2063 1,2|         propose to escape?" ~"By that lazy balloon which is left there
2064 2,5|            the passengers had time to leap on to the sand, Harding
2065 1,2|             jumping, bounding, making leaps of thirty feet, regular
2066 1,4|            eatable point of view, and learnt with some satisfaction that
2067 3,2|              behind. Neb led Top in a leash, to prevent him from bounding
2068 2,3|            cutlasses well sheathed in leather, and, thus supplied, the
2069 2,9|              their daily nourishment, leavings from the kitchen, etc.,
2070 3,1|           celebrated as the cedars of Lebanon. ~As to the fauna, there
2071 1,4|             by letting him attend the lectures of the best professors in
2072 3,7|          There would be no storms, no lee-shore to fear. At some feet beneath
2073 1,5|           which Pencroft called "sham leeks"; for, in spite of their
2074 2,7|             by the sea, was no longer legible. ~"This latitude was 37deg
2075 1,2|            Cyrus Harding had also his legitimate share of thanks, but after
2076 3,4|               imagine that Ayrton can lend us a good helping hand." ~
2077 3,4|             to fasten the ropes or by lending his stout shoulders to carry
2078 1,4|               diminished, it began to lengthen. By inclining his stick
2079 2,9|     proceeding, this cylinder was cut lengthways, and after having been rendered
2080 2,3|               the other, if wanted he lent a hand with the ropes, and
2081 3,7|             they beheld a thick glass lenticular covering, which protected
2082 3,9|             the eruption has somewhat lessened? The volcano still vomits
2083 2,2|           serious consequences, was a lesson to the settlers, who from
2084 2,8|           into small beds, where grew lettuces, kidney potatoes, sorrel,
2085 1,1|         fantastic animal, a monstrous leviathan, which lay sleeping on the
2086 3,2|             continued amid shouts and libations. Ayrton learned that chance
2087 3,6|            Granite House after having liberally supplied the stables. ~As
2088 1,0|            the state of sulphate, and liberated the fatty acids. ~From these
2089 1,3|               a substance to serve in lieu of iron, could not be met
2090 3,2|       hesitating, "you will risk your life-" ~"Why not, sir?" ~"That
2091 2,6|           which recalled all his past life-a melancholy life doubtless-and
2092 2,8|       described, and his portrait was lifelike! ~"He looks as if he was
2093 1,1|           sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference
2094 3,5|             The interval between each lightning-flash and each thunder-clap diminished
2095 3,3|             the reporter. ~"A weapon, lightning-like in its effects, and of which
2096 1,2|            gigantic gum-trees. Superb lilacs rose to a height of twenty
2097 1,5|           size, they were of the same liliaceous family as the onion, chive,
2098 1,8|          either on the head, body, or limbs, which was surprising, as
2099 1,6|            this place, to its extreme limit in the west, it only formed
2100 3,0|               branches, disposed as a liner, received the mattress on
2101 3,4|             days, to renew the social link with the inhabited world,
2102 1,0|               tiger in India, and the lion in Africa, "we shall soon
2103 2,0|          pounds of oil, and the lower lip four thousand. Then, besides
2104 1,7|        suspended. ~This done, Harding lit the end of the sulphured
2105 3,6|           every kind, and in science, literature, and art his researches
2106 3,5|              good pace, a prey to the liveliest emotions. There was no doubt
2107 1,8|              this nitro-glycerine for loading firearms?" asked the sailor. ~"
2108 2,6|               breakfast a magnificent loaf, a little heavy perhaps,
2109 3,7|              then to contend with the local inflammation and fever which
2110 3,3|             wished to reconnoiter the locality before he allowed his men
2111 2,5|           wind or rain. ~"We needed a locker, and now we have one," said
2112 2,2|            course be of use. Then the locks were forced with a cold
2113 2,1|           steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be
2114 3,1|             the waters of a fountain, locust-trees, on the long pods of which
2115 1,5|            regular octahedron. Native lodestones consist of this ore, and
2116 1,2|          friends, and returned to his lodging, where young Herbert Brown
2117 3,6|             that the fishermen of the Lofoten Islands had rendered them
2118 3,8|         colonists had appealed to the logic of that simple good sense
2119 1,1|             This diversity of aspect, logically only belongs to continents
2120 1,5|            laid in the fireplace some logs and brushwood. The seaman
2121 3,4|          asserted that the winters of Lombardy, for example, are not less
2122 3,6|           attaining the object of his long-cherished ambition, was easily drawn
2123 3,8|          mutterings which rolled like long-continued thunder, interrupted by
2124 1,8|               the water, appeared the long-looked-for opening. A narrow ridge,
2125 3,3|            latter to be supplied with long-range rifles, they on their side
2126 3,5|           were now going to learn the long-searched-for answer to the enigma, the
2127 1,2|            satisfaction. Here was the long-sought-for opportunity-he was not a
2128 1,4|              their starting-point for longitudes concurrently with the English-it
2129 3,1|            the notice of the vessel's lookout. But why was the ship coming
2130 2,1|         machine to spin the wool, nor loom to weave it, was obliged
2131 2,5|               in the Claw Cape, which loomed dimly through the morning
2132 1,3|             thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the
2133 2,4|                who were occupied with loosing themselves, received unexpected
2134 1,4|             was not even necessary to lop the trees, for enormous
2135 3,4|          stout shoulders to carry the lopped trunks. ~All this timber
2136 2,3|         lories were brought down. The lory is of the size of a pigeon,
2137 3,4|              Ayrton shared the common lot in every respect, and there
2138 2,3|              could not but admire the lovely effects so easily produced
2139 3,8|              Captain Nemo. It was now low-water, and they passed without
2140 1,0|              increased as the radiant luminary sank in its diurnal course.
2141 1,0|                at the moment when the lunar crescent disappeared beneath
2142 2,5|              a piece of venison. This luncheon would sustain them until
2143 3,8|              the night. But a kind of lurid brilliancy spread over the
2144 2,3|        plumage shines with a metallic luster. A shot brought it to the
2145 1,2|             expands gracefully like a lyre. ~As to the water of the
2146 3,5|       Bonifacio, in Corsica, those of Lyse-Fjord, in Norway; such are the
2147 3,8|             discharge of a battery of machine-guns. ~Cyrus Harding, the reporter,
2148 3,7|               arrived forward, in the machine-room where the electrical apparatus
2149 1,6|             belonging to the group of macrodactyls which form the transition
2150 1,3|           tubercules of the "caladium macrorhizum," an herbaceous plant of
2151 3,3|               a dozen other convicts, maddened with rage, and possibly
2152 1,2|             feet, now lashed into the maddest fury by the gale. ~Our readers
2153 2,6|             he cried, and fled like a madman. ~Neb, Pencroft, and Herbert
2154 3,9|            would have been folly-nay, madness. In presence of Nature's
2155 2,7|         passed through the Straits of Magellan, and ascended the Pacific
2156 1,8|       splendid cavern and producing a magic effect! On its left side
2157 1,0|               Cyrus Harding was not a magician, he was certainly no ordinary
2158 1,5|              had brought back, one of magnetic iron, not carbonated, the
2159 2,8|          magnet which was temporarily magnetized, and returned through the
2160 1,2|            reconnoiter Lake Grant, so magnificently framed in trees. They therefore
2161 1,2|          reach them, or the crows and magpies which flew away in flocks. ~
2162 2,4|              nails, skin the color of mahogany, feet as hard as if made
2163 3,2|           ship and caught hold of the main-chains. He took breath, then, hoisting
2164 2,5|                and then we can make a main-sail, a foresail, and a jib out
2165 3,7|                and you will lower the mainhatch so as entirely to close
2166 2,2|          custom, bore the name of the maker; they were, besides, in
2167    | makes
2168 3,0|          appeared that a more serious malady, the consequence of the
2169 1,1|              had almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean,
2170 3,6|              taken now for a gigantic mammal of the whale species, now
2171 3,6|       numberless wrecks, its enormous mammalia, and not only all that nature
2172 2,0|         However, the presence of this mammifer preoccupied the colonists.
2173 1,2|           thirty feet, regular flying mammiferae, fled over the thickets,
2174 3,5|          Norway; such are the immense Mammoth caverns in Kentucky, 500
2175 3,4|             is not disciplined like a man-of-war! Convicts are not sailors.
2176 2,2|             pines in the forest. ~The management of the vessel was very simple.
2177 2,5|                which formed a sort of mane and gave him such a savage
2178 3,6|              was the use of these two maneuvers, unless the vessel had been
2179 2,3|        sometimes made; the Eucalyptus manifera, which yields a sweet sort
2180 2,3|               at the settlers without manifesting any terror, as if, seeing
2181 2,2|              emitted from the learned manipulation of Neb and the reporter.
2182 2,8|                As to the receiver and manipulator, they were very simple.
2183 1,3|             the feet and hands of the manipulators, and then divided into pieces
2184 2,1|          communicate with the rest of mankind. ~Gideon Spilett had already
2185 2,9|             forming and becoming more manly, and he promised to be an
2186 2,8|   characterized by a sort of feathery mantle; a dozen shovelers, whose
2187 1,9|            get home again. English or Maoris, we shall always find some
2188 1,2|              these rodents. They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little
2189 3,8|              say, by the beginning of March-if they wished to visit Tabor
2190 2,4|         explosions, for, according to Marco Polo, the Tartars have employed
2191 1,0|              these three acids-oleic, margaric, and stearic-the first,
2192 1,0|              separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin, by employing
2193 2,2|           mathematical instruments, 1 mariner's compass, 1 Fahrenheit
2194 2,2|            leaves were separated by a marker. ~Immediately his eyes were
2195 2,1|        esteemed in the Lincoln Island markets. ~This sort of material
2196 2,6|           house." ~"Herbert is a good marksman," said the reporter, "and
2197 2,5|        companions slept like innocent marmots in the cave which the jaguar
2198 3,3|               in Cyrus Harding's eyes marred, in some degree, the worth
2199 3,6|       Bundelkund in the year 1849. He married a noble Indian lady, who
2200 1,2|              These beasts are not St. Martins." ~"We would make them do
2201 2,8|             The clever orang had been marvelously trained by Neb, and any
2202 2,7|         captain. He communicated with Mary and Robert Grant, who joined
2203 2,4|              baskets; that this bark, mashed into a paste, is used for
2204 1,0|              of the upper cone, which masked the half-horizon of the
2205 1,7|          laughing, "and when you want masons-" ~"Masons,-no, but chemists,"
2206 3,2|               destroying vessels, and massacring their crews. ~The convicts
2207 3,9|              those of the atmosphere, massed over the island. Loud peals
2208 1,9|          apparatus was wrought by the masterly hand of Pencroft. ~Other
2209 2,2|      Lincolnian flag floated from the masthead, and the "Bonadventure,"
2210 2,4|        brushwood in the midst of some mastic-trees, a little above the cascade;
2211 1,5|           keep his note-book than his match-box." ~Herbert did not reply.
2212 1,4|           could procure the necessary materials-soda or potash, fat or oil. The
2213 2,2|          chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. He read the verse, which
2214 2,2|          planes, 2 adzes, 1 twibil or mattock, 6 chisels, 2 files, 3 hammers,
2215 1,0|            bedding consisted of grass mattresses. The kitchen, with its shelves,
2216 2,8|        purpose. ~Cyrus Harding, after mature consideration, decided to
2217 1,9|            were in a perfect state of maturity, and Herbert described them
2218 3,5|        villains! Very well; I hope we mayn't repent it!" ~"What danger
2219 3,0|           Robert Grant himself, Major McNab, and all those who had taken
2220 3,6|               It was she who attacked me-I was in a narrow and shallow
2221 1,4|             five hundred feet. ~These measurements finished, Cyrus Harding
2222 3,7|            torn up his shirt, and was mechanically making lint. ~Spilett then
2223 3,4|               by the laws of rational mechanics. Now, the earth occupies
2224 1,2|         appear made to be struck on a medal, piercing eyes, a serious
2225 2,6|          recalled all his past life-a melancholy life doubtless-and the colonists,
2226 2,0|              heat of his stomach will melt the ice, and the bone, springing
2227 1,6|                and be supplied by the melting of the snow which covered
2228 2,6|         colony was increased by a new member. As to his name the sailor
2229 1,9|              seemed to be united by a membrane. Herbert recognized in this
2230 2,8|           prolonged on each side by a membraneous appendage; and also some
2231 3,7|             taking with them the only memento left them by their benefactor,
2232 3,7|           many millions, most of them mementoes of the time when, husband
2233 3,1|              the passage of a band of men-here branches broken off the
2234 3,2|           been fired, in imitation of men-of-war when they lower their colors,
2235 1,9|          either to the archipelago of Mendava, either on the Pomotous,
2236 2,1|            interior of Granite House, mending clothes and different occupations,
2237 1,2|              common soldiers. Besides mental power, he also possessed
2238 1,2|             specimens of the splendid menura, the tail of which expands
2239 1,8|       slightly damp, but producing no mephitic exhalation. ~"Well, my dear
2240 2,2|            planispheres arranged upon Mercator's projection, and of which
2241 2,7|        generous man. He embarked in a merchant vessel, sailed to the west
2242 2,5|            left longer exposed to the mercies of the first storm. The
2243 3,0|              said, "Oh! Almighty God! mercifully hast Thou preserved us!" ~
2244 3,7|               we have the right to be merciless!" ~"At any rate," said the
2245 3,5|               And before hunting them mercilessly, you would not wait until
2246 1,2|           engineer's calculation, the mercurial column of a Fahrenheit thermometer
2247 1,4|               and sulphur for powder, mercury and nitric acid for the
2248 2,1|             suited for navigating the Mercy-above all, for approaching its
2249 2,8|         unknown coast. They were then mere castaways, not even knowing
2250 1,2|               spots, and they had the merest rudiments of tails. ~The
2251 2,1|              It was certainly neither merino, muslin, cashmere, rep,
2252 3,2|                   She sails well, and merits her name of the 'Speedy.'" ~"
2253 1,4|             omelet!" replied Pencroft merrily. ~"But what will you make
2254 2,6|              under the influence of a mesmerist. He wished to run away.
2255 1,5|              situation than the first metallurgist, and therefore did what,
2256 1,5|             into iron or into steel. ~Metals are not generally found
2257 3,6|      constructed from his designs. By methods which will at some future
2258 1,9|            The engineer was to them a microcosm, a compound of every science,
2259 1,1|             now she entrusts to these microscopic creatures the task of replacing
2260 1,6|              fury of the elements, in mid-ocean, bad weather would be frequent,
2261 2,1|               a turtle of the species Midas, the edible green turtle,
2262 3,4|           five-and-twenty feet to the midship beam. But this was all the
2263 2,5|             as if his eyes had become milder. Certainly, when formerly
2264 2,2|             going a distance of three miles-the boat touched the beach below
2265 1,2|    physiognomy of a clever man of the military school. He was one of those
2266 3,9|      Therefore, one idea occupied his mind-to leave the corral, and when!
2267 2,6|         appeared to wish gradually to mingle with their common life.
2268 3,4|             is like a little world in miniature, and the stores of the colony
2269 1,4|           this shadow would reach its minimum of length would be exactly
2270 1,8|             torn open his clothes. ~A minute-an age!-passed, during which
2271 3,4|      miraculously saved the colony. ~"Miraculous is the word," repeated Pencroft, "
2272 2,5|              by the phenomenon of the mirage, appeared as if suspended
2273 3,9|            emergency. ~He met with no misadventure and found no suspicious
2274 3,6|              Nevertheless, this noble misanthrope longed to benefit his proteges
2275 2,8|         Pencroft often. "If he was as mischievous as he is good, there would
2276 3,6|          humblest of the wretched and misguided fanatics; he was ten times
2277 3,3|          oppose any obstacle to these missiles, nor protect the stone,
2278 3,2|          companions an account of the mission with which he had charged
2279 2,1|           watched it disappear in the misty west. ~"Where is he going
2280 1,7|          dynamite, that is to say, to mix with it some solid substance,
2281 3,7|               Nautilus"-~ "Mobilis in mobile." ~ His glance seemed to
2282 3,7|            motto of the "Nautilus"-~ "Mobilis in mobile." ~ His glance
2283 1,2|               but merely half a dozen mocking and singing birds, known
2284 1,7|               resembled a Switzerland modeled in sand, and only an amazing
2285 1,6|           with a line, but the sailor modestly confessed that it was not
2286 2,2|               Pencroft, who showed no modesty on this occasion. Besides
2287 1,4|          longer, and consequently its modifications would be more easily ascertained.
2288 1,9|            the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to
2289 3,9|           reports, while others, less moist, remained unhurt in the
2290 1,8|            mixing with the water some moisture from the titra's flesh which
2291 1,2|          armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti. ~"
2292 2,4|                A cupboard, with a few moldy sailor's clothes; on the
2293 1,7|             then quite invisible. The mole no longer protected the
2294 1,4|             belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate
2295 3,9|              compared to a Niagara of molten fluid, with its incandescent
2296 2,0|       consequences might be terrible, momentarily diverted from their projects
2297 3,2|              Ayrton, profiting by the momentary retreat of his adversaries,
2298 3,7|            comrades, Captain Harding, money will never be a source of
2299 2,8|            acid and not the fuming or monohydrate azotic acid, that is to
2300 1,4|              appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf. Beyond
2301 1,1|               of the Himalayas, or of Mont Blanc, remains of a submerged
2302 3,8|               should be ready in five months-that is to say, by the beginning
2303 2,9|               excavations presented a monumental aspect; in another, a crowd
2304 3,1|      conversation. All were in such a mood that they found it impossible
2305 1,6|               he. ~"I should prefer a moor-cock or guinea-fowl," replied
2306 2,9|            man, physically as well as morally. Besides he improved himself
2307 1,0|                They asked for nothing more-they gave thanks. The next day,
2308 1,3|          polypores or even any of the morels which could replace them.
2309 3,5|       Hebrides; such are the caves of Morgat, in the bay of Douarnenez,
2310 2,8|          might have been supposed one morning-the 21 st-that the first snow
2311 3,6|             head as a man to whom the morrow may never come, and when
2312 1,3|               the lime made excellent mortar. ~The result of these different
2313 3,4|              the stem and stern-post, mortised at each of its extremities,
2314 3,6|           Nemo withdrew his hand, and motioned the engineer and the reporter
2315 3,6|            the world, ignorant of the motives which induced you to adopt
2316 1,6|               was rich chestnut-brown mottled with dark brown, and tail
2317 2,8|               was covered with little mounds, concealing perfectly spherical
2318 3,8|             Cyrus Harding and Ayrton, mounting the cart drawn by two onagers,
2319 3,6|             have succored, shall ever mourn your loss." ~Herbert, who
2320 2,7|     presentiment. There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in
2321 1,6|             sticks like scythes, they mowed down whole rows of these
2322 2,8|     magnificent cocks, similar to the Mozambique cocks, the comb, caruncle,
2323 3,2|            The thick grass completely muffled their footsteps. The colonists
2324 2,1|      polishers, stretchers, twisters, mule-jenny, nor self-acting machine
2325 1,0|          nature; and yet what is this multiplication of the grain of corn, of
2326 2,8|              leaving out no one. ~"It multiplies us," said Pencroft. ~And
2327 1,0|            those tobacco-seeds, which multiply by three hundred and sixty
2328 2,6|              Granite House. Every one munched away at it with a pleasure
2329 2,6|               that I have not stolen, murdered-that I am not a wretch-an accursed
2330 3,5|             Harvey's accomplices, the murderers of the crew of the "Speedy,"
2331 2,4|            shoulder, without moving a muscle. The jaguar collected itself
2332 3,7|              over the pediment of the museum-the motto of the "Nautilus"-~ "
2333 2,1|             certainly neither merino, muslin, cashmere, rep, satin, alpaca,
2334 1,0|          Herbert gave the name of the musmon. ~"Have they legs and chops?"
2335 1,4|            not remarked in the common mussel. ~Pencroft and Herbert made
2336 1,6|               adorned with long silky mustaches, belonged. ~"A lamantin!"
2337 3,8|        expecting to hear some distant muttering. Then, turning towards his
2338 3,5|              windows, and the shining muzzles of the guns could soon be
2339 1,7|               in what way I was saved myself-how I was drawn from the waves,
2340 2,8|            any more than I believe in mysteries in this world. There is
2341 1,2|           gentle, and calm, sometimes naive, always merry, obliging,
2342 2,4|            the chest, the body almost naked except a rag round the waist,
2343 1,2|        thousand isles of its American namesake were represented by a rock
2344 1,1|           complete the resemblance by naming the two parts of the jaws
2345 2,8|              it, he appeared one day, napkin on his arm, ready to wait
2346 3,6|     navigation of the "Nautilus" were narrated and exposed to the curiosity
2347 1,6|              the southwest, the river narrowed gradually and the channel
2348 3,3|               the colonists entered a narrower gorge similar to the picturesque
2349 2,8|              and goats, and gradually narrowing the circle around them.
2350 3,3|               violence, caused by the narrowness of the straits, the pirates
2351 2,0|             strange as it may appear, naturalists and whalers are not agreed
2352 1,4|          increased after eating these naturally-spiced molluscs. They had then
2353 2,0|               things, and both, their natures inclining them to the marvelous,
2354 1,8|              it died away in the dark naves. ~"Ah, my friends!" exclaimed
2355 2,3|               as far as the river was navigable. A great part of the distance
2356 3,1|          Lincoln Island is unknown to navigators, since it is not marked
2357 1,2|             hours he roamed round the nearly-deserted square, surveying the apparatus.
2358 2,2|            and you, Herbert; and you, Neb-aren't you coming to try our
2359 1,2|              and honest. His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to
2360 1,7|                Considerable works are necessary-a special set of tools, an
2361 1,3|              the horizon, which would necessitate measuring the height of
2362 1,6|              had the inconvenience of necessitating the sacrifice of a piece
2363 1,6|               them with all the first necessities of life. But here, not any
2364 2,2|            possibly carry. Top wore a necklace of teal and Jup wreaths
2365 2,3|                thin beaks, lengthened necks, short wings, and without
2366 3,4|             was a valuable workman at need-strong, skilful, ingenious, intelligent.
2367 2,3|              replaced, and the latter needing fulminating caps, a frequent
2368 2,9|               shall not expose myself needlessly! I would rather a knife
2369 1,4|              delicate instrument, and needs very particular tools. However,
2370 3,5|           were turned, shook his head negatively. ~"We must wait," said Gideon
2371 2,8|               printing-frame upon the negatives, it was sufficient to soak
2372 2,2|            idea. "Tabor Island is our neighbor, and the only one! Politeness
2373 2,2|               One likes to know one's neighbors," returned the sailor, who
2374 2,7|           before them, uttering short neighs, then galloping through
2375 1,8|            hollowed it. Pluto and not Neptune had bored it with his own
2376 3,8|          others one of those gigantic nettle-trees which had shaded the poultry-yard
2377 2,3|               eucalyptus is enough to neutralize miasmas. This natural antidote
2378 2,9|            their favorite among these newcomers. An attempt was also made
2379 2,8|               than five miles, by the newly beaten road to which the
2380 2,8|            the plateau nor ravage the newly-made plantation. The oyster-bed
2381 3,5|           reporter actually started a newspaper-the New Lincoln Herald! ~So
2382 3,9|           could only be compared to a Niagara of molten fluid, with its
2383 2,2|            began to eat. Neb made him nice little sweet dishes, which
2384 2,8|           when he was preceded by the nimble Jup, who slid down to the
2385 2,9|             of twenty-nine inches and nine-tenths, and the weather appeared
2386 3,0|              29th. It was, therefore, nineteen days since Neb had had other
2387 1,7|          known under the name of salt niter, or of saltpeter. ~Cyrus
2388 1,4|           oyster contains very little nitrogen, and if a man lived exclusively
2389 2,6|               his face in his hands. "No-never-leave me! leave me!" ~Then he
2390 2,2|               the sailor; "a rock?" ~"No-wait," said Herbert; "I don't
2391 3,6|             which they represented so nobly in the island. ~Captain
2392    | nobody
2393 1,1|             these foxes is diurnal or nocturnal, or whether it is correct
2394 2,0|         chemicals deposited in a dark nook of Granite House. ~Returning
2395 3,3|             Island, whose most secret nooks were explored. The colonists
2396 2,9|            the superb scenery. ~About noon the "Bonadventure" arrived
2397 1,7|               known under the name of Nordhausen acid is made. ~To obtain
2398 2,4|               and steered towards the north-east, so as to sail straight
2399 2,3|            the Mercy continued to the north-west, towards the spurs of Mount
2400 1,2|        important at that time. A true Northerner, thin, bony, lean, about
2401 3,2|               it was then that, going northwards again, they came upon the
2402 1,3|               above the plateau, in a northwesterly direction and at a distance
2403 1,1|               on the contrary, in the northwestern region, and seemed to mark
2404 1,6|              of the "dugong," for its nostrils were open at the upper part
2405 1,4|                Nothing." ~"If that is not-everything!" replied Pencroft, laughing
2406 3,4|             day, "I would give you by notarial deed all the estates which
2407 2,3|       Pencroft. "I tell you, it wants nothing-unless it is-" ~"That will come,
2408 1,1|             too small, to contain and nourish terrestrial humanity? Now,
2409 3,9|          strength, in eight days from now-well, we shall see." ~Eight days!
2410 1,5|               at its extremity with a nozzle of clay, which had been
2411 3,5|               thrown from the glowing nucleus, whose clear rays were shattered
2412 2,2|          replied the sailor. "We will nurse him as if he was one of
2413 3,8|             bright eyes smiled at his nurses. He talked a little, notwithstanding
2414 3,7|            other thought than that of nursing Herbert. They did not think
2415 1,7|              reduced to the size of a nut. ~This done, they set fire
2416 1,2|              which has such beautiful nuts!" ~As to the birds, they
2417 3,4|            Far West supplied the best oaks and elms. They took advantage
2418 2,2|           calking the seams they made oakum of dry seaweed, which was
2419 1,2|              all at once a cry and an oath escaped him. ~"What's the
2420 2,9|              steeples, pyramidal like obelisks, conical like factory chimneys.
2421 1,2|           light of. "You like to make objections. Seven months ago, when
2422 3,3|         disdain for those on whom the obligation was conferred, which in
2423 3,7|     yourselves, gentlemen, under some obligations to me?" ~"Captain, believe
2424 2,2|               who will help me?" ~"To oblige you, Neb, I will," replied
2425 2,0|            invasion the ladder was so obligingly thrown down from Granite
2426 1,8|            had roughly calculated its obliqueness, and consequently the length
2427 1,8|              sea the water would have obliterated all marks. Neb did not expect
2428 3,7|               cavern became gradually obscure. At length this vast effusion
2429 2,1|                from the height of his observatory, could examine all the yet
2430 3,3|               the more than zeal,-the obstinacy,-with which they carried
2431 3,0|             no fire, nor any means of obtaining it. It seemed that they
2432 3,5|               vapor, could be seen by occasional flashes. ~There was no telegraphic
2433 1,1|               it frequented, at least occasionally, by the natives of neighboring
2434 3,5|            followed it at the risk of occasioning a fall of the slightly-balanced
2435 3,3|         absolute, and, certainly, the occult power, manifested until
2436 3,4|           coops of poultry with their occupants still living, boxes and
2437 2,0|             at a respectful distance. Occupation was not wanting to the colonists,
2438 3,2|          climate. The most frequently occurring trees were knaries and eucalypti
2439 1,5|               the form of the regular octahedron. Native lodestones consist
2440 2,1|            Two days after-the 28th of October-another incident occurred, for which
2441 2,2|            hall. This day-the 29th of October-happened to be a Sunday, and, before
2442 2,1|            one day-it was the 26th of October-he said-"But, Mr. Spilett,
2443 3,4|               19th, 20th, and 21st of October-were employed in saving everything
2444 2,1|             the pipes giving forth an odoriferous smoke, they could hear the
2445 2,2|            was filled with appetizing odors, which were emitted from
2446 3,7|            the partitions, the chef-d'oeuvres of the Italian, Flemish,
2447 3,8|     diligently continued, and without offering further explanations the
2448 2,9|              shall try to keep in the offing until the flood, that is
2449 3,4|               done by families in the olden times, and it may be added,
2450 1,0|               he easily separated the olein, the margarin, and the stearin,
2451 3,6|              groans which were rather ominous. ~At last the palisade appeared
2452 3,4|            and his companions had not omitted to observe how severe was
2453 2,2|             it belongs. If we find no one-" ~"We will keep it for ourselves!"
2454 1,9|       oscillation was thus diminished one-half, and a rope permitted it
2455 1,2|          already getting gray. He had one-of those finely-developed heads
2456 3,1|              one wish to have a fever oneself!" said Pencroft. ~During
2457 1,5|              liliaceous family as the onion, chive, shallot, or asparagus.
2458 2,6|               he exclaimed; "one word only-am I free?" ~"You are free,"
2459 1,2|             the shores of this little Ontario, in which the thousand isles
2460 2,5|                The boat still drifted onward, and it was not more than
2461 1,8|               did not prove that they oozed through the rock. They were
2462 3,8|            they derived their strange opacity and weight. Scoriae, in
2463 1,7|                so as to lay bare this opening-" ~"And make a waterfall,
2464 2,2|      Instruments:-1 sextant, 1 double opera-glass, 1 telescope, 1 box of mathematical
2465 1,7|          create an explosion. But the operator could not be there to give
2466 1,3|               their labor, and a very opportune one. They set out. ~Cyrus
2467 3,4|             at the same time afforded opportunities for hunting. Therefore Herbert
2468 1,2|               was the long-sought-for opportunity-he was not a man to let it
2469 2,3|          tempted to fire, but Harding opposed so useless a massacre. This
2470 1,7|             this immense ocean, which opposes no obstacle to their fury.
2471 2,2|               vexed by the engineer's opposition, but who did not wish to
2472 3,6|             hastened on, their hearts oppressed with anxiety. They were
2473 3,6|       disdaining action; one of those opulent travelers, haughty and cynical,
2474 1,2|              motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: "I
2475 1,2|             question belonged to that order-lay strangled on the turf. ~
2476 3,5|               wire. Everything was in order-the pile on the box containing
2477 3,3|               a piece of work and not ordering a battle. His companions
2478 3,5|            they were pretty pieces of ordnance, which, at Pencroft's entreaty,
2479 3,6|               order to facilitate the organization of the encampments. One
2480 3,8|              Herbert is cured, we can organize a general battle of the
2481 1,3|        employed himself in fixing the orientation of the island, or, in other
2482 2,2|                the model of which had originated with him, although on the
2483 3,5| hemispheres-at Etna, Popocatepetl, at Orizabaand on the eve of an eruption
2484 2,4|     magnificent skin would be a great ornament to the hall at Granite House. ~"
2485 2,8|                faithfully reproduced, ornamenting the walls of Granite House,
2486 1,2|               of a former captain, an orphan, whom he loved as if he
2487 2,6|               fall on the stones, the oscillating spout intended to regulate
2488 1,9|            first ladder, of which the oscillation was thus diminished one-half,
2489 1,2|                they had discovered an osier-bed in which grew a large number
2490 1,2|              a large number of purple osiers. Before the rainy season,
2491 3,6|         dinner, well armed. Pencroft, ostentatiously slipping two bullets into
2492 2,2|             and a half after they set out-all that time had been taken
2493 2,0|               without reckoning their out-door cares, they had always a
2494 3,9|        contents of the storehouse and outbuildings contained more than sufficient
2495 3,6|             ocean, from pole to pole. Outcast of the inhabited earth in
2496 3,6|              Yes, a rebel, perhaps an outlaw against humanity!" ~The
2497 3,5|              a hoarse voice,-~"He! an outlawed man!" ~"He!" said Harding. ~
2498 3,5|             mountain, and to open new outlets for the burning lava. ~Cyrus
2499 3,9|               rugged and well-defined outlines of the sides of the volcano,
2500 2,7|            were frustrated! He became outrageous. They put him in irons.
2501 3,0|              Herbert's critical state outweighed all other considerations.