Part,  Chapter

4003 1,9|            equal size; and lastly, a "Visitor's room," petitioned for
4004 2,0|               to keep those dangerous visitors at a respectful distance.
4005 2,2|               did not appear that any vital part had been reached, but
4006 1,0|               boracic acid, and which vitrify as they burn and are entirely
4007 3,3|             colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave their
4008 3,2|               the sea breezes and the vivifying air from the forests. His
4009 3,2|           worst names in his maritime vocabulary. ~The colonists remained,
4010 3,2|            hour after his arrival the vociferations had begun to die away, and
4011 2,9|          facade of Granite House like volleys of grape-shot. The door
4012 1,2|               After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois, under Ulysses
4013 3,2|            was quite out of patience, volunteered to accompany him. ~"No,
4014 3,9|             the mountain, whose mouth vomited forth ignited rocks, which,
4015 3,9|           lessened? The volcano still vomits forth lava, but somewhat
4016 3,6|          Nautilus" was drawn into the vortex of the maelstrom, off the
4017 2,9|            who had always the casting vote in maritime questions; "
4018 1,9|             and Herbert, who had been voted purveyors to the colony,
4019 2,2|               had been discussed, the votes were all in favor of the "
4020 2,8|           jaguars. Gideon Spilett had vowed a special hatred against
4021 2,5|            would be able to undertake voyages of circumnavigation round
4022 1,6|               a man had ended in this vulgar fashion, carried away by
4023 2,2|                  Tabor island: 153deg W. long., 37deg 11' S. lat." ~ ~
4024 1,5|              having more than a slow, waddling movement. ~Pencroft knew
4025 3,1|          which belong to the tribe of waders. Top darted after them as
4026 1,6|       transition between the order of wading birds and that of palmipeds.
4027 3,4|              the sailor, "but I would wager my head there are no rocks
4028 2,4|          naked except a rag round the waist, wild eyes, enormous hands
4029 3,2|         Harvey, seizing Ayrton by the waistband. ~But Ayrton, without replying,
4030 1,9|              him with their coats and waistcoats. ~Supper, this evening,
4031 3,3|               the slightest desire to wake up. But we could not prevent
4032 1,6|              the natives of New South Wales rear. But it was possible
4033 3,0|            Pencroft. "If we had but a walnut-shell to take us to Tabor Island!
4034 1,6|             which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used. Herbert
4035 2,8|             at the touch of a fairy's wand. Unfortunately the change
4036 1,5|         induce him to take some rest, wandered all night long on the shore
4037 3,2|              knife which he could not ward off made a gash in his shoulder. ~
4038 1,4|            question of renewing their wardrobe would be treated of in the
4039 3,6|               of anarchy and constant warfare and misery, and had established
4040 1,5|        chimney drew, and an agreeable warmth was not long in being felt. ~
4041 3,6|               none could follow. ~The warrior became the man of science.
4042 3,4|           distinguished themselves as washermen. ~So passed the winter months,
4043 1,5|              an inhabited country are wasted with indifference and are
4044 3,3|     Ayrton-bound, gagged, and closely watched-lived in this cave for four months. ~
4045 3,9|        tenants, notwithstanding their watchfulness, were here always in fear
4046 2,7|               then seen following the water-barrier which everywhere presented
4047 1,7|         evaporation, subjected to the water-bath, and he obtained, without
4048 2,7|         breach to the sea, by the new water-course which had hollowed out a
4049 2,7|            defended on three sides by water-courses, either artificial or natural.
4050 2,9|            the presence of myriads of water-fowl. That evening the "Bonadventure"
4051 2,0|            such storms, comparable to water-spouts in which were mingled rain
4052 1,1|             mentioned constituted the water-system, at least such as it was
4053 2,1|             to insure the canoe being water-tight. ~It was first necessary
4054 2,1|          which was placed in a strong waterproof bag, with an earnest request
4055 2,3|              the reporter and Herbert waved in return, and Granite House
4056 3,6|             bay-the frigate barred my way-and I sank her!" ~A few moments
4057 3,7|              yourselves to the common weal. Often have I observed your
4058 1,4|          strong, and could resist the wear of manual labor. But all
4059 2,8|               pinched the feet of the wearers. ~With the beginning of
4060 1,3|             relieved the eye, so long wearied by the continued ranges
4061 3,9|            imprisonment in the corral wearies me horribly, and I have
4062 1,6|               clothes which they were wearing at the time of the catastrophe.
4063 3,4|             to Granite House. Ah! how wearisome this imprisonment was to
4064 2,0|          morning, the "Bonadventure," weathering the North Mandible Cape,
4065 2,1|            spin the wool, nor loom to weave it, was obliged to proceed
4066 2,1|               do without spinning and weaving. And indeed he proposed
4067 1,4|               especially those of the web-footed species with long, flat,
4068 1,4|               feet into the sand, and wedging it up carefully, he managed,
4069 1,3|               5th of April, which was Wednesday, was twelve days from the
4070 1,0|          place was cleared, carefully weeded, and searched for insects
4071 2,3|              often obstructed by long weeds, and even by pointed rocks,
4072 2,5|              a man again, for you can weep!" ~ ~
4073 3,6|           rapidly erected by means of well-cemented blocks of stone. ~This work
4074 3,9|              stood out the rugged and well-defined outlines of the sides of
4075 3,3|            was within range, when two well-directed balls threw its crew into
4076 2,6|           Pencroft fastened this to a well-feathered arrow. Then Herbert fixing
4077 3,7|               gale of wind on board a well-found craft. A vessel is built
4078 3,1|               dragon-trees, and other well-known species, succeeded each
4079 3,1|           burden, wonderfully narrow, well-masted, admirably built, and must
4080 2,8|          aromatic herbs, often gained well-merited praises for its preparer,
4081 3,4|               necessary to make him a well-padded dressing-gown. But what
4082 1,3|             itself. The fuel, made of well-prepared fagots, was laid on the
4083 2,0|            the name which he loved so well-the name of his birthplace. ~
4084 3,3|         watered. ~Now, of these three well-watered valleys, either might have
4085 3,8|           what she offered them. ~The wellbeing of the colony was therefore
4086 2,1|          Harding were tried. The bent whalebones, imprisoned in a case of
4087 2,0|            which English and American whalemen call the whale field, and
4088 2,0|            formerly served on board a whaling-ship, and he could methodically
4089 2,0|         dockyard. This was the second wheat-harvest, which was gathered in on
4090 2,9|               This was not quite real wheaten bread, but it was very like
4091 2,0|             he drew five or six great whiffs. A fragrant blue cloud soon
4092 2,2|              at first only a doubtful whim. ~After standing off the
4093 1,4|             jagged rocks, of the most whimsical shapes. Some hundreds of
4094 3,4|            well, nor did they bark or whine in that singular way which
4095 1,2|             formed the snow into tall whirling columns, resembling those
4096 3,6|            engulfed in that frightful whirlpool, found their death at the
4097 3,8|             colonists, enveloped in a whirlwind of dust, lost sight of each
4098 3,8|               of the heights. Immense whirlwinds of vapor obscured the sky,
4099 1,2|             forty years of age. Light whiskers bordering on red surrounded
4100 1,2|              was recalled by a slight whistle from his master, and the
4101 1,7|              threw into the darkness, whistling shrilly. ~It appeared as
4102 1,0|               the 4th of June. It was Whit Sunday and they agreed to
4103 2,2|            whose lofty head was still whitened with snow. ~"How beautiful
4104 1,0|             other substances, such as whitish cinders made of an infinity
4105 3,9|          smoke rolled over the trees, whore trunks were already consumed
4106 2,9|            this was mischief, and not wickedness, for these little twisted
4107 1,2|              to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office,
4108 1,1|           vast funnel which extended, widening, to a height of a thousand
4109 2,2|             them instantaneously. Jup wielded his weapon valiantly, and
4110 2,0|               the midst of myriads of wild-duck, snipe, teal, and others.
4111 3,3|        surface of the island, and the wildest fancies haunted their excited
4112 2,0|              recalling, but with more wildness, the fiords of Norway. The "
4113 1,2|           taken for his motto that of William of Orange in the 17th century: "
4114 2,0|              another master, to whom, willing or not, he felt subject.
4115 3,8|             And the captain wanted to win them by kindness! I'll send
4116 2,2|                The canoe followed the windings of the shore, avoiding the
4117 3,3|              hear the creaking of the windlass. The "Speedy" was at first
4118 1,9|        projection. Besides, until the window-frames were made, the engineer
4119 3,3|       companions rushed to one of the windows-~The brig, irresistibly raised
4120 2,9|              we should have passed to windward of the island, if it had
4121 1,6|       recognized the males by the two wing-like appendages raised on the
4122 2,9|           occupations, with a view to wintering a third time in Granite
4123 1,5|              a small, rough stone, he wiped it carefully, and with a
4124 2,8|     companions to follow the trade of wiredrawers, and occupied himself with
4125 2,7|          Harding. Ayrton was going to withdraw, when the engineer addressed
4126 2,7|               and was on the point of withdrawing. Cyrus Harding understood
4127 3,3|             thinking it within range, withheld their fire, then, rounding
4128 2,3|       valuable to builders, and which withstands well the action of water.
4129 3,9|          skeletons of trees which had withstood the first eruption. The
4130 3,6|              to an important incident witnessed by the three strangers thrown
4131 1,1|          called his "corn-field." And woe to the insects which dared
4132 2,4|              the rival of the largest wolf! ~The jaguar advanced and
4133 2,2|              they?" cried Pencroft. ~"Wolves, jaguars, or apes?" replied
4134 2,4|             bench, talking little but wondering much. They were in a frame
4135 3,7|             his eyes shone with their wonted fire. A faint smile even
4136 2,6|               towards the edge of the wood-but they returned alone. ~"We
4137 2,8|        Lincoln Island was that of the wood-covered Serpentine Peninsula, which
4138 1,9|             begin by being hunters or wood-men?" ~"Hunters," replied Herbert. "
4139 2,7|             than their congeners, the wood-pigeons. ~Lastly, the time had come
4140 3,9|              upperworks, the interior woodwork and the rigging might be
4141 2,1|               and, in fact, the first woolen stuffs were manufactured
4142 2,3|           from the way in which it is worded, we may conclude this: first,
4143 1,9|             the riches of the ground; workings of quarries and mines; machines
4144 2,1|            the turtle, which feeds on wrack-grass, is extremely savory. At
4145 3,5|             nick of time? ~Every one, wrapped up in his own reflections,
4146 3,6|               of fish, its numberless wrecks, its enormous mammalia,
4147 3,2|             Ayrton, without replying, wrenched himself from his grasp and
4148 3,5|           Island, who found there the wretch you knew, and who made known
4149 2,6|              murdered-that I am not a wretch-an accursed being-only fit
4150 3,2|              cruelly suffered. On his wrists and ankles could be seen
4151 3,7|          words, traced in Neb's large writing:-"No pirates in the neighborhood
4152 3,2|               You interpret his words wrongly." ~"Indeed," returned the
4153 1,9|                and this apparatus was wrought by the masterly hand of
4154 3,3|           colonists for the last time wrung each other's hands. ~Pencroft
4155 1,6|          heroes of Daniel Defoe or of Wyss, as well as Selkirk and
4156 2,6|                When Pencroft, being a Yankee, treated any one to the
4157 1,1|           Cape, bent in the form of a yataghan, tapered away nearly four
4158 3,5|         Already, long badly concealed yawns gave warning of the hour
4159 1,4|             that each oyster produces yearly from fifty to sixty thousand
4160 2,6|         perhaps, although raised with yeast, appeared on the table at
4161 2,4|           cries were mingled terrible yells, in which there was nothing
4162 1,2|           wished to raise it. He then yelped in a peculiar way, which
4163 2,2|             but they heard a singular yelping noise away in the darkness.
4164 2,2|           asked a second time, as the yelpings were again heard more loudly
4165 2,2|             loudly than before. These yelps made Herbert start, and
4166 1,7|             Pencroft, springing up. ~"Yes-barking-" ~"It's not possible!" replied
4167 1,7|         pressing the sailor's hand. ~"Yes-yes!" replied Pencroft. ~"It
4168 2,2|               the sailor's idea, and, yielding to his wish, he opened exactly
4169 2,3|            Eucalyptus manifera, which yields a sweet sort of manna; the
4170 3,3|            with muskets; one took the yoke-lines, four others the oars, and
4171 3,4|             to which the onagers were yoked like regular Yorkshire or
4172 3,4|               were yoked like regular Yorkshire or Kentucky oxen. The colonists
4173 1,1|          nothing of our position from you-" ~"And you are right, my
4174 3,7|         Harding, I wish to speak with you-alone!" ~The engineer's companions,
4175 3,6|             The 'Nautilus.'" ~"But do you-do you know who I am?" ~"I
4176 3,7|              conduct. I have esteemed you-I esteem you still! Your hand,
4177 1,5|      that-something which will please you-we must begin by having a seal
4178 3,5|              make jolly chaps of your youngsters!" ~"That's agreed," replied
4179 1,1|         almost the extent of Malta or Zante, in the Mediterranean, but
4180 3,4|               granite wall with long, zebra-like streaks! Fuel was not spared,
4181 1,1|                 replied Herbert; "but zoologists have not yet found out if
4182 3,7|             of the sea-marine plants, zoophytes, chaplets of pearls of inestimable