Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne
Editor: David Widger
Release date: February 6, 2019 [eBook #58835]
Most recently updated: February 25, 2021
Language: English
Credits: Produced by David Widger
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I | A SHIFTING REEF |
II | PRO AND CON |
III | I FORM MY RESOLUTION |
IV | NED LAND |
V | AT A VENTURE |
VI | AT FULL STEAM |
VII | AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE |
VIII | MOBILIS IN MOBILI |
IX | NED LAND'S TEMPERS |
X | THE MAN OF THE SEAS |
XI | ALL BY ELECTRICITY |
XII | SOME FIGURES |
XIII | THE BLACK RIVER |
XIV | A NOTE OF INVITATION |
XV | A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA |
XVI | A SUBMARINE FOREST |
XVII | FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC |
XVIII | VANIKORO |
XIX | TORRES STRAITS |
XX | A FEW DAYS ON LAND |
XXI | CAPTAIN NEMO'S THUNDERBOLT |
XXII | "AEGRI SOMNIA" |
XXIII | THE CORAL KINGDOM |
CHAPTER | |
I | THE INDIAN OCEAN |
II | A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO'S |
III | A PEARL OF TEN MILLIONS |
IV | THE RED SEA |
V | THE ARABIAN TUNNEL |
VI | THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO |
VII | THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS |
VIII | VIGO BAY |
IX | A VANISHED CONTINENT |
X | THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES |
XI | THE SARGASSO SEA |
XII | CACHALOTS AND WHALES |
XIII | THE ICEBERG |
XIV | THE SOUTH POLE |
XV | ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT? |
XVI | WANT OF AIR |
XVII | FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZON |
XVIII | THE POULPS |
XIX | THE GULF STREAM |
XX | FROM LATITUDE 47° 24' TO LONGITUDE 17° 28' |
XXI | A HECATOMB |
XXII | THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO |
XXIII | CONCLUSION |
Color Plates |
Introduction |
Units of Measure |
1. | A Runaway Reef |
2. | The Pros and Cons |
3. | As Master Wishes |
4. | Ned Land |
5. | At Random! |
6. | At Full Steam |
7. | A Whale of Unknown Species |
8. " | Mobilis in Mobili" |
9. | The Tantrums of Ned Land |
10. | The Man of the Waters |
11. | The Nautilus |
12. | Everything through Electricity |
13. | Some Figures |
14. | The Black Current |
15. | An Invitation in Writing |
16. | Strolling the Plains |
17. | An Underwater Forest |
18. | Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific |
19. | Vanikoro |
20. | The Torres Strait |
21. | Some Days Ashore |
22. | The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo |
23. " | Aegri Somnia" |
24. | The Coral Realm |
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME NINE | |
OFF ON A COMET OR HECTOR SERVADAC | |
BOOK I. | |
CHAPTER I | A CHALLENGE |
CHAPTER II | CAPTAIN SERVADAC AND HIS ORDERLY |
CHAPTER III | INTERRUPTED EFFUSIONS |
CHAPTER IV | A CONVULSION OF NATURE |
CHAPTER V | A MYSTERIOUS SEA |
CHAPTER VI | THE CAPTAIN MAKES AN EXPLORATION |
CHAPTER VII | BEN ZOOF WATCHES IN VAIN |
CHAPTER VIII | VENUS IN PERILOUS PROXIMITY |
CHAPTER IX | INQUIRIES UNSATISFIED |
CHAPTER X | A SEARCH FOR ALGERIA |
CHAPTER XI | AN ISLAND TOMB |
CHAPTER XII | AT THE MERCY OF THE WINDS |
CHAPTER XIII | A ROYAL SALUTE |
CHAPTER XIV | SENSITIVE NATIONALITY |
CHAPTER XV | AN ENIGMA FROM THE SEA |
CHAPTER XVI | THE RESIDUUM OF A CONTINENT |
CHAPTER XVII | A SECOND ENIGMA |
CHAPTER XVIII | AN UNEXPECTED POPULATION |
CHAPTER XIX | GALLIA’S GOVERNOR GENERAL |
CHAPTER XX | A LIGHT ON THE HORIZON |
CHAPTER XXI | WINTER QUARTERS |
CHAPTER XXII | A FROZEN OCEAN |
CHAPTER XXIII | A CARRIER-PIGEON |
CHAPTER XXIV | A SLEDGE-RIDE |
BOOK II. | |
CHAPTER I | THE ASTRONOMER |
CHAPTER II | A REVELATION |
CHAPTER III | THE PROFESSOR’S EXPERIENCES |
CHAPTER IV | A REVISED CALENDAR |
CHAPTER V | WANTED: A STEELYARD |
CHAPTER VI | MONEY AT A PREMIUM |
CHAPTER VII | GALLIA WEIGHED |
CHAPTER VIII | JUPITER SOMEWHAT CLOSE |
CHAPTER IX | MARKET PRICES IN GALLIA |
CHAPTER X | FAR INTO SPACE |
CHAPTER XI | A FETE DAY |
CHAPTER XII | THE BOWELS OF THE COMET |
CHAPTER XIII | DREARY MONTHS |
CHAPTER XIV | THE PROFESSOR PERPLEXED |
CHAPTER XV | A JOURNEY AND A DISAPPOINTMENT |
CHAPTER XVI | A BOLD PROPOSITION |
CHAPTER XVII | THE VENTURE MADE |
CHAPTER XVIII | SUSPENSE |
CHAPTER XIX | BACK AGAIN |
THE UNDERGROUND CITY | |
CHAPTER I. | CONTRADICTORY LETTERS |
CHAPTER II. | ON THE ROAD |
CHAPTER III. | THE DOCHART PIT |
CHAPTER IV. | THE FORD FAMILY |
CHAPTER V. | SOME STRANGE PHENOMENA |
CHAPTER VI. | SIMON FORD’S EXPERIMENT |
CHAPTER VII. | NEW ABERFOYLE |
CHAPTER VIII. | EXPLORING |
CHAPTER IX. | THE FIRE-MAIDENS |
CHAPTER X. | COAL TOWN |
CHAPTER XI. | HANGING BY A THREAD |
CHAPTER XII. | NELL ADOPTED |
CHAPTER XIII. | ON THE REVOLVING LADDER |
CHAPTER XIV. | A SUNRISE |
CHAPTER XV. | LOCH LOMOND AND LOCH KATRINE |
CHAPTER XVI. | A FINAL THREAT |
CHAPTER XVII. | THE “MONK” |
CHAPTER XVIII. | NELL’S WEDDING |
CHAPTER XIX. | THE LEGEND OF OLD SILFAX |
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BOOK I | |
CHAPTER I | A FETE AT THE NEW PALACE |
CHAPTER II | RUSSIANS AND TARTARS |
CHAPTER III | MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR |
CHAPTER IV. | FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD |
CHAPTER V | THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS |
CHAPTER VI | BROTHER AND SISTER |
CHAPTER VII | GOING DOWN THE VOLGA |
CHAPTER VIII | GOING UP THE KAMA |
CHAPTER IX | DAY AND NIGHT IN A TARANTASS |
CHAPTER X. | A STORM IN THE URAL MOUNTAINS |
CHAPTER XI | TRAVELERS IN DISTRESS |
CHAPTER XII | PROVOCATION |
CHAPTER XIII | DUTY BEFORE EVERYTHING |
CHAPTER XIV | MOTHER AND SON |
CHAPTER XV | THE MARSHES OF THE BARABA |
CHAPTER XVI. | A FINAL EFFORT |
CHAPTER XVII | THE RIVALS |
BOOK II |
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CHAPTER I | A TARTAR CAMP |
CHAPTER II | CORRESPONDENTS IN TROUBLE |
CHAPTER III | BLOW FOR BLOW |
CHAPTER IV | THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY |
CHAPTER V | "LOOK WHILE YOU MAY!” |
CHAPTER VI | A FRIEND ON THE HIGHWAY |
CHAPTER VII. | THE PASSAGE OF THE YENISEI |
CHAPTER VIII | A HARE CROSSES THE ROAD |
CHAPTER IX | IN THE STEPPE |
CHAPTER X | BAIKAL AND ANGARA |
CHAPTER XI | BETWEEN TWO BANKS |
CHAPTER XII | IRKUTSK |
CHAPTER XIII | THE CZAR’S COURIER |
CHAPTER XIV | THE NIGHT OF THE FIFTH OF OCTOBER |
CHAPTER XV | CONCLUSION |
I. | The Shark | |
II. | The Three Documents | |
III. | The Captain's Children | |
IV. | Lady Glenarvan's Proposal | |
V. | The Departure of the Duncan | |
VI. | An Unexpected Passenger | |
VII. | Jacques Paganel is Undeceived | |
VIII. | The Geographer's Resolution | |
IX. | Through the Strait of Magellan | |
X. | The Course Decided | |
XI. | Traveling in Chili | |
XII. | Eleven Thousand Feet Aloft [Pg 6] | |
XIII. | A Sudden Descent | |
XIV. | Providentially Rescued | |
XV. | Thalcave | |
XVI. | News of the Lost Captain | |
XVII. | A Serious Necessity | |
XVIII. | In Search of Water | |
XIX. | The Red Wolves | |
XX. | Strange Signs | |
XXI. | A False Trail | |
XXII. | The Flood | |
XXIII. | A Singular Abode | |
XXIV. | Paganel's Disclosure | |
XXV. | Between Fire and Water | |
XXVI. | The Return on Board | |
XXVII. | A New Destination [Pg 7] | |
XXVIII. | Tristan d'Acunha and the Isle of Amsterdam | |
XXIX. | The Storm on the Indian Ocean | |
XXX. | A Hospitable Colonist | |
XXXI. | The Quartermaster of the Britannia | |
XXXII. | Preparations for the Journey | |
XXXIII. | An Accident | |
XXXIV. | Australian Explorers | |
XXXV. | Crime or Calamity? | |
XXXVI. | Fresh Faces | |
XXXVII. | A Warning | |
XXXVIII. | Wealth in the Wilderness | |
XXXIX. | Suspicious Occurrences | |
XL. | A Startling Discovery | |
XLI. | The Plot Unveiled | |
XLII. | Four Days of Anguish | |
XLIII. | Helpless and Hopeless [Pg 8] | |
XLIV. | A Rough Captain | |
XLV. | The Wreck of the Macquarie | |
XLVI. | Vain Efforts | |
XLVII. | A Dreaded Country | |
XLVIII. | Introduction to the Cannibals | |
XLIX. | A Momentous Interview | |
L. | The Chief's Funeral | |
LI. | Strangely Liberated | |
LII. | The Sacred Mountain | |
LIII. | A Bold Stratagem | |
LIV. | From Peril to Safety | |
LV. | Why the Duncan went to New Zealand | |
LVI. | Ayrton's Obstinacy | |
LVII. | A Discouraging Confession | |
LVIII. | A Cry in the Night | |
LIX. | Captain Grant's Story | |
LX. | Paganel's Last Entanglement |
"Good," said Glenarvan, "wash the dirty thing and bring it into the cabin." | p. 13. |
The fragments soon strewed the table, and several pieces of paper were perceived adhering to each other. Glenarvan drew them out carefully. | p. 17. |
Dumbarton Castle. | p. 27. |
"Please, madam, speak! I am strong against grief, and can hear all." | p. 33. |
"My father, my poor father!" cried Mary Grant, throwing herself at the feet of Lord Glenarvan. | p. 41. |
The Rev. Mr. Morton implored the blessing of Heaven, and commended the expedition to the care of Providence. | p. 52. |
This man, tall, lank, and shriveled, might have been forty years old. He resembled a long, broad-headed nail, for his head was large and thick, his forehead high, his nose prominent, his mouth wide, and his chin blunt. | p. 57. |
Paganel was grandiloquent. He spoke with a lofty animation, and was carried away in the rapid flight of imagination. | p. 65. |
They could scarcely see the city, which was on an elevated plain in the form of a terrace, resting on volcanic rocks three hundred feet in height. The appearance of the island through this rainy curtain was misty. | p. 73. |
Peak of Teneriffe. | p. 74. |
Sometimes the tips of her yards would graze the branches of the beeches that hung over the waves. | p. 81 |
Port Famine. | p. 83. |
In Concepcion | p. 86. |
The mate, Tom Austin, Wilson, a powerful fellow, and Mulready, were the fortunate ones. | p. 92. |
By means of a ford, they crossed the Rio Tubal, the mountains visible in the distance. | p. 100. |
Two hours more of terrible exertion followed. They kept ascending, in order to reach the highest summit of this part of the mountain. | p. 108. |
The internal rumblings, the din of the avalanche, the crash of the blocks of granite, and the whirlwinds of snow, rendered all communication with each other impossible. | p. 117. |
The bird had raised him by his garments, and was now hovering in mid-air at least one hundred and fifty feet above the encampment. He had perceived the travelers, and was violently striving to escape with his heavy prey. | p. 125. |
A man of lofty stature was standing, motionless, on one of the first ledges of the mountain. This individual had broad shoulders, and long hair tied with leathern thongs. | p. 132. |
An important road--that from Carmen to Mendoza--distinguishable by the bones of such animals as mules, horses, sheep and oxen, whose remains were scattered by the birds of prey, and lay bleaching in the sun. | p. 144. |
They set out at daybreak. The horses advanced at a brisk pace among the tufts of "paja-brava," a kind of grass that serves the Indians as a shelter during the storms. | p. 149. |
"Poor father!" exclaimed Robert; "how he will thank you when you have found him!" And, so saying, he took his lordship's hand and pressed it to his lips. | p. 157. |
Frightful howls resounded. The wolves, starting on the track of the horse, fled into the darkness with a terrible speed. | p. 173. |
Arriving within range, Paganel fired a blank charge (for he would not needlessly destroy even a bird), and all the flamingoes flew away, while the geographer gazed at them attentively through his glasses. | p. 181. |
In fact, they were a dozen young children and boys who were drilling very nicely. Their uniform consisted of a striped shirt confined at the waist by a leathern girdle. | p. 185. |
"Ah, I am delighted! Welcome, welcome! I am almost a Frenchman," cried the commander, shaking the geographer's arm with rather painful violence. | p. 188. |
More than once during the journey, the attention and interest of all, but especially of Paganel, were arrested by the curious illusion of the mirage. | p. 193. |
"The flood! the flood!" replied Thalcave, spurring his horse towards the north. | p. 201. |
A huge wave, forty feet high, overwhelmed the fugitives with a terrible roar. Men and beasts, everything, disappeared in a whirlpool of foam. A ponderous liquid mass engulfed them in its furious tide. | p. 205. |
He turned his intelligent head towards his master, and, shaking his long mane, neighed for him beseechingly. | p. 208. |
Glenarvan, Paganel, the major, Austin, and Mulready were seated astraddle, or dangling in the branches, according to their own inclinations. | p. 213. |
A long body appeared. Paganel dangled from branch to branch. His hands could grasp nothing. Was he alive, or dead? | p. 217. |
The hunt promised well, and gave hopes of culinary wonders. | p. 223. |
However, the repast was as varied as it was delicate. The dried meat, the hard eggs, the broiled mojarras, and the roast sparrows and hilgueros, formed a repast which was long remembered. | p. 225. |
They were agreed on this point, that it was necessary to have courage for every fortune, and be contented with a tree when one has neither palace nor cottage. | p. 229. |
The incessant flashes assumed various forms. Some, darting perpendicularly towards the earth, were repeated five or six times in the same place; others spread in zigzag lines, and produced on the dark vault of the heavens astonishing jets of arborescent flame. | p. 233. |
In a few moments the gigantic water-spout struck the ombu, and enveloped it in its watery folds. | p. 237. |
The sound of a horse's hoofs was heard upon the plain, and the tall form of the Indian emerged from the darkness. | p. 241. |
Glenarvan watched alone. He could not convince himself that the Duncan was so near him; but as for supposing that she had not arrived at her appointed rendezvous, it was impossible, for such a ship there were no delays. | p. 245. |
They pushed off, and the boat was rapidly borne from the shore by the ebbing tide. For a long time the motionless outline of the Indian was seen through the foam of the waves. | p. 249. |
Lady Helena and Mary Grant, while the boat was approaching the ship, had experienced all the anguish of suspense. From the deck they endeavored to count those who were returning. | p. 252. |
"My object," said MacNabb, "is not to invalidate the arguments of my friend Paganel, still less to refute them." | p. 257. |
At sunrise they saw the conical peak of Tristan, seemingly separated from all the rest of the rocky group. | p. 260. |
A few hours of their united toil resulted in the death of a large number of seals who were "caught napping." | p. 261. |
Our friends found a few voluntary exiles on the former island, who, by means of seal-fishing, eke out a scanty existence in this out-of-the-way spot. | p. 264. |
Inasmuch as this was sufficient to cook fish, Paganel decided that it was not necessary for him to bathe here "geographically." | p. 265. |
"Major," said Paganel, "will you wager your rifle against my telescope that I cannot name at least fifty Australian explorers?" | p. 268. |
"Master Robert shall count for us." And forthwith the learned geographer opened his budget, and poured forth the history of the discovery of Australia. | p. 269. |
Then, impelled by the hurricane, the billows outran her; they leaped over the taffrail, and the whole deck was swept with tremendous violence. | p. 276. |
"Let go!" cried the young captain. The barrels were inverted, and from their sides streamed floods of oil. | p. 280. |
As the boats containing the whole of the party were rowed ashore, they felt that the fate of their father would soon be probably decided. | p. 284. |
A fair and comfortable locality, which the merry mill crowned with its pointed gable and caressed with the moving shadow of its sails. | p. 288. |
He was a somewhat rough-looking, broad-shouldered man, of about forty-five. | p. 292. |
"When I was washed from the forecastle, as I was hauling down the jib, the Britannia was driving towards the coast of Australia, which was not two cable-lengths distant." | p. 293. |
When he came to himself, he was in the hands of the natives, who carried him into the interior of the country. | p. 296. |
At last, exhausted and almost dead, he reached the hospitable dwelling of Mr. O'Moore, where his labor insured him a comfortable livelihood. | p. 297. |
This business being settled, the party returned on board. | p. 305. |
The vehicle was a cart twenty feet long and covered with an awning, the whole resting upon four wheels, without spokes, felloes, or tires. | p. 308. |
Ayrton and Olbinett took their places respectively in front and in the rear part of the cart, while Glenarvan, the major, Paganel, Robert, Captain Mangles, and the two sailors, mounted their horses. | p. 312. |
The "Mosquito Plains," whose very name describes them, and serves to tell of the tortures that our friends had to encounter. | p. 313. |
Red-gum Station, the home and settlement of an emigrant engaged in the cattle-breeding which is the source of so much Australian wealth. | p. 316. |
The major was skillful enough to shoot a very rare bird,--a "jabiru," or giant crane. This creature was five feet high; and its broad, black, sharp conical beak measured eighteen inches in length. | p. 317. |
A crack was heard; the cart inclined at an alarming angle; the water reached the feet of the ladies, and the whole vehicle threatened to give way. It was an anxious moment. | p. 324. |
After dinner the traveling party had, as if in anticipation, seated themselves at the foot of a magnificent banksia; the young moon was rising high into the heavens, lengthening the twilight, and prolonging it into the evening hour. | p. 325. |
"When I am dead, place a pistol in my right hand, and leave me without burial." His forebodings were realized, and the next morning he died. | p. 328. |
He beheld the waters of the Indian Ocean, and proudly unfurled the Australian flag from the topmost branch of the highest tree he could find. | p. 329. |
A terrible accident had occurred, not a collision, but a running off the track and a fall into the river, which was filled with the fragments of cars and locomotives. | p. 333. |
In the midst of the multitude two men were bearing a corpse. It was that of the guard, already cold. A poniard-thrust had pierced him to the heart. | p. 337. |
A boy of eight years, with a notice pinned to the back of his jacket which read as follows: "Toliné, to be conducted to Echuca, care of Jeff Smith, Railway Porter. Prepaid." | p. 340. |
Paganel and the others had now gathered round, and Toliné had to answer many a question. He came out of his examination very creditably. | p. 341. |
In the streets, in connection with the strange sign-boards and announcements, the novel erections and purposes to which some of them were adapted, Paganel had a history and commentary for every one. | p. 344. |
Here was the mineralogical museum, in which might be seen specimens illustrative of all the various ways in which the gold has been found. | p. 345. |
Anon you might see him as in the illustration, when he had picked up a pebble and was sure that it was in itself so interesting as a mineralogical specimen that he must treasure it up for the Bank of France. | p. 348. |
They were like so many columns exactly mated, and could be counted by hundreds. | p. 352. |
At evening they encamped at the foot of some trees that bore the marks of a recent fire. They formed tall chimneys, as it were, for the flames had hollowed them out internally throughout their entire length. | p. 353. |
Of these miserable beings there were about thirty, men, women, and children, dressed in ragged kangaroo-skins. | p. 360. |
A sham fight, which lasted about ten minutes, the women urging on the combatants and pretending to mutilate those who fell in the fray. | p. 361. |
Paganel did not lie down, but, rifle on shoulder, guarded the encampment, walking to and fro that he might the better resist sleep. | p. 364. |
Here, for the first time, they saw the menure, or lyre-bird, whose tail has the form of the graceful instrument of Orpheus. | p. 368. |
It was a charming house of wood and brick, surrounded by clusters of plants, and had the elegant form of a Swiss cottage. | p. 372. |
Of all the sports of the day the most interesting was unquestionably a kangaroo hunt. | p. 376. |
Not hailstones, but pieces of ice as large as one's hand, were precipitated from the angry clouds. | p. 380. |
Early in the afternoon they passed through a curious forest of ferns. These arborescent plants, in full bloom, measured thirty feet in height. | p. 384. |
Flashes of lightning, the dazzling forerunners of a coming storm, every now and then illumined the horizon. | p. 385. |
He crouched down, and, after a long and attentive observation, distinctly perceived several men. | p. 388. |
But the heavy vehicle did not stir. The clay, now dry, held it as if it had been cemented. | p. 393. |
"If it please your lordship, I will go." | p. 397. |
A report was heard; and Glenarvan fell, struck by a bullet. | p. 401. |
A pair of cassowaries proved that the presence of man did not disturb these peaceful solitudes. | p. 408. |
"Adieu, my lord," said he, in a calm voice, and soon disappeared by a path along the edge of the wood. | p. 413. |
In the midst of these terrific gusts, Glenarvan, the major, and the captain bore the body of Mulready. The animal reared. Mulready seized his revolver and fired. | p. 420. |
The animal reared, Mulready seized his revolver and fired. | p. 424. |
However, the raft was entangled in the midst of the river, half a mile below where they started. | p. 429. |
The two ladies exerted themselves heroically, but their strength was failing every hour. They dragged themselves along, they no longer walked. | p. 433. |
It was a brig of two hundred and fifty tons, called the Macquarie, which traded between the different ports of Australia and New Zealand. | p. 437. |
The landlord of Victoria Hotel furnished them with two horses, and they set out. | p. 441. |
But on the next day seven canoes of the islanders attacked it most violently and suddenly, causing it to capsize. | p. 445. |
It was on the sixth of October, 1769, that this navigator (Captain Cook) first landed on the shores. | p. 447. |
Safe themselves, the French marksmen picked off the chief. | p. 450. |
Day and night, heedless of the torrents of rain and the dashing spray of the sea, he remained on deck. | p. 452. |
The sailor who was steering, and had been forcibly pushed aside, did not at all understand this sudden attack. | p. 456. |
The mainmast went by the board with all its rigging, the brig heaved twice and was motionless, leaning over to starboard. | p. 460. |
As the Macquarie lay over on her starboard beams, her opposite side was raised, and the defective seams were out of water. | p. 461. |
They therefore anchored, half a cable's length distant, in ten fathoms of water. | p. 468. |
The work was accordingly begun, and considerably advanced when night interrupted them. | p. 472. |
Not long since, in the year 1864, one of these clergymen was seized by the chiefs and hung from the tree. | p. 473. |
The yawl was drawn alongside. | p. 477. |
Night approached. Already the sun's disk was disappearing beneath the horizon. | p. 480. |
The ladies were carried in their companions' arms, and reached the shore without wetting a single fold of their garments. | p. 481. |
While the fire served to dry their garments conversation beguiled the hours, as they lay or stood at ease. | p. 484. |
Louper, with difficulty, managed to support himself on one of them. | p. 485. |
These seals, with rounded heads, upturned look, expressive eyes, presented an appearance, almost a physiognomy, that was mild and wellnigh tender. | p. 488. |
The New Zealand "kiwi," known to naturalists as the apteryx. | p. 489. |
A boat might have been seen ascending the Waikato. It was a canoe seventy feet long and five broad. | p. 496. |
At this point the river flowed between warm springs, and not a yard of firm earth could be seen. | p. 501. |
At noon the whole fleet of boats entered Lake Taupo. | p. 504. |
On their arrival, the captives were terribly impressed at sight of the heads that ornamented the stakes of the second inclosure. | p. 505. |
Robert was scarcely within the hut before he climbed on Wilson's shoulders, and succeeded in thrusting his head through an opening. | p. 508. |
At last his voice rose above the tumult. "Taboo! taboo!" cried he. | p. 513. |
A terrible scene of cannibalism, which followed in all its horrible details. | p. 519. |
The corpses, folded together, in a sitting posture, and tied in their clothes by a girdle of withes, were placed on this primitive bier. | p. 521. |
First her husband, and then she, slid down the rope to the point where the perpendicular wall met the summit of the slope. | p. 529. |
They saw, but were also seen. | p. 533. |
"Be seated, my dear lord; breakfast is awaiting you." | p. 537. |
The steward started back in terror. | p. 545. |
The fugitives made themselves levers out of the stakes of the tomb. | p. 552. |
An incandescent column poured forth towards the sky with loud explosions, while streams of boiling water and lava rolled towards the encampment of the natives. | p. 553. |
On every side water-spouts, with spiral rings of vapor, spirted from the ground like the jets of a fountain. | p. 560. |
A second ball whistled over their heads, and demolished the nearest of the three canoes. | p. 564. |
As soon as they set foot on deck the bagpiper struck up a well remembered air, while hearty hurrahs welcomed the owner's return on board. | p. 568. |
This sally finished the poor geographer. | p. 569. |
Ayrton soon made his appearance. He crossed the deck with a confident step, and ascended the poop-stairs. | p. 576. |
For an hour the two ladies were closeted with the quartermaster, but nothing resulted from this conference. | p. 580. |
He contented himself with shrugging his shoulders, which so increased the rage of the crew, that nothing less than the intervention of the captain and his lordship could restrain them. | p. 581. |
"Do you agree or not?" | p. 584. |
The unfortunate girl arose, and, leaning over the bulwark, would have thrown herself into the sea. | p. 600. |
A man was standing on the beach between two others. His form was tall and stout. | p. 604. |
Harry Grant set his table in the shade, and all took seats around it. | p. 608. |
The passengers could see the quartermaster, with folded arms, standing motionless as a statue, on a rock, and gazing at the vessel. | p. 613. |
Early in the afternoon the travelers reached Malcolm Castle, amidst the hurrahs of their tenantry and friends. | p. 617. |
Fifteen weeks after a marriage was celebrated with great pomp in the chapel of Malcolm Castle. | p. 619. |
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME FOUR | |
IN SEARCH OF THE CASTAWAYS | |
SOUTH AMERICA | |
CHAPTER I | THE SHARK |
CHAPTER II | THE THREE DOCUMENTS |
CHAPTER III | THE CAPTAIN’S CHILDREN |
CHAPTER IV | LADY GLENARVAN’S PROPOSAL |
CHAPTER V | THE DEPARTURE OF THE “DUNCAN” |
CHAPTER VI | AN UNEXPECTED PASSENGER |
CHAPTER VII | JACQUES PAGANEL IS UNDECEIVED |
CHAPTER VIII | THE GEOGRAPHER’S RESOLUTION |
CHAPTER IX | THROUGH THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN |
CHAPTER X | THE COURSE DECIDED |
CHAPTER XI | TRAVELING IN CHILI |
CHAPTER XII | ELEVEN THOUSAND FEET ALOFT |
CHAPTER XIII | A SUDDEN DESCENT |
CHAPTER XIV | PROVIDENTIALLY RESCUED |
CHAPTER XV | THALCAVE |
CHAPTER XVI | THE NEWS OF THE LOST CAPTAIN |
CHAPTER XVII | A SERIOUS NECESSITY |
CHAPTER XVIII | IN SEARCH OF WATER |
CHAPTER XIX | THE RED WOLVES |
CHAPTER XX | STRANGE SIGNS |
CHAPTER XXI | A FALSE TRAIL |
CHAPTER XXII | THE FLOOD |
CHAPTER XXIII | A SINGULAR ABODE |
CHAPTER XXIV | PAGANEL’S DISCLOSURE |
CHAPTER XXV | BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER |
CHAPTER XXVI | THE RETURN ON BOARD |
AUSTRALIA | |
CHAPTER I | A NEW DESTINATION |
CHAPTER II | TRISTAN D’ACUNHA AND THE ISLE OF AMSTERDAM |
CHAPTER III | CAPE TOWN AND M. VIOT |
CHAPTER IV | A WAGER AND HOW DECIDED |
CHAPTER V | THE STORM ON THE INDIAN OCEAN |
CHAPTER VI | A HOSPITABLE COLONIST |
CHAPTER VII | THE QUARTERMASTER OF THE “BRITANNIA” |
CHAPTER VIII | PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY |
CHAPTER IX | A COUNTRY OF PARADOXES |
CHAPTER X | AN ACCIDENT |
CHAPTER XI | CRIME OR CALAMITY |
CHAPTER XII | TOLINE OF THE LACHLAN |
CHAPTER XIII | A WARNING |
CHAPTER XIV | WEALTH IN THE WILDERNESS |
CHAPTER XV | SUSPICIOUS OCCURRENCES |
CHAPTER XVI | A STARTLING DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER XVII | THE PLOT UNVEILED |
CHAPTER XVIII | FOUR DAYS OF ANGUISH |
CHAPTER XIX | HELPLESS AND HOPELESS |
NEW ZEALAND | |
CHAPTER I | A ROUGH CAPTAIN |
CHAPTER II | NAVIGATORS AND THEIR DISCOVERIES |
CHAPTER III | THE MARTYR-ROLL OF NAVIGATORS |
CHAPTER IV | THE WRECK OF THE “MACQUARIE” |
CHAPTER V | CANNIBALS |
CHAPTER VI | A DREADED COUNTRY |
CHAPTER VII | THE MAORI WAR |
CHAPTER VIII | ON THE ROAD TO AUCKLAND |
CHAPTER IX | INTRODUCTION TO THE CANNIBALS |
CHAPTER X | A MOMENTOUS INTERVIEW |
CHAPTER XI | THE CHIEF’S FUNERAL |
CHAPTER XII | STRANGELY LIBERATED |
CHAPTER XIII | THE SACRED MOUNTAIN |
CHAPTER XIV | A BOLD STRATAGEM |
CHAPTER XV | FROM PERIL TO SAFETY |
CHAPTER XVI | WHY THE “DUNCAN” WENT TO NEW ZEALAND |
CHAPTER XVII | AYRTON’S OBSTINACY |
CHAPTER XVIII | A DISCOURAGING CONFESSION |
CHAPTER XIX | A CRY IN THE NIGHT |
CHAPTER XX | CAPTAIN GRANT’S STORY |
CHAPTER XXI | PAGANEL’S LAST ENTANGLEMENT |
PART I. | THE GIANT RAFT |
CHAPTER I | A CAPTAIN OF THE WOODS |
CHAPTER II | ROBBER AND ROBBED |
CHAPTER III | THE GARRAL FAMILY |
CHAPTER IV | HESITATION |
CHAPTER V | THE AMAZON |
CHAPTER VI | A FOREST ON THE GROUND |
CHAPTER VII | FOLLOWING A LIANA |
CHAPTER VIII | THE JANGADA |
CHAPTER IX | THE EVENING OF THE FIFTH OF JUNE |
CHAPTER X | FROM IQUITOS TO PEVAS |
CHAPTER XI | FROM PEVAS TO THE FRONTIER |
CHAPTER XII | FRAGOSO AT WORK |
CHAPTER XIII | TORRES |
CHAPTER XIV | STILL DESCENDING |
CHAPTER XV | THE CONTINUED DESCENT |
CHAPTER XVI | EGA |
CHAPTER XVII | AN ATTACK |
CHAPTER XVIII | THE ARRIVAL DINNER |
CHAPTER XIX | ANCIENT HISTORY |
CHAPTER XX | BETWEEN THE TWO MEN |
PART II. | THE CRYPTOGRAM |
CHAPTER I | MANAOS |
CHAPTER II | THE FIRST MOMENTS |
CHAPTER III | RETROSPECTIVE |
CHAPTER IV | MORAL PROOFS |
CHAPTER V | MATERIAL PROOFS |
CHAPTER VI | THE LAST BLOW |
CHAPTER VII | RESOLUTIONS |
CHAPTER VIII | THE FIRST SEARCH |
CHAPTER IX | THE SECOND ATTEMPT |
CHAPTER X | A CANNON SHOT |
CHAPTER XI | THE CONTENTS OF THE CASE |
CHAPTER XII | THE DOCUMENT |
CHAPTER XIII | IS IT A MATTER OF FIGURES? |
CHAPTER XIV | CHANCE! |
CHAPTER XV | THE LAST EFFORTS |
CHAPTER XVI | PREPARATIONS |
CHAPTER XVII | THE LAST NIGHT |
CHAPTER XVIII | FRAGOSO |
CHAPTER XIX | THE CRIME OF TIJUCO |
CHAPTER XX | THE LOWER AMAZON |
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. | |
DETAILED CONTENTS. | |
FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON. | |
CHAPTER FIRST. | The End of a much-applauded Speech.-The Presentation of Dr. Samuel Ferguson.-Excelsior.-Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.-A Fatalist convinced.-A Dinner at the Travellers' Club.-Several Toasts for the Occasion |
CHAPTER SECOND. | The Article in the Daily Telegraph.-War between the Scientific Journals.-Mr. Petermann backs his Friend Dr. Ferguson.-Reply of the Savant Koner.-Bets made.-Sundry Propositions offered to the Doctor |
CHAPTER THIRD. | The Doctor's Friend.-The Origin of their Friendship.-Dick Kennedy at London.-An unexpected but not very consoling Proposal.-A Proverb by no means cheering.-A few Names from the African Martyrology.-The Advantages of a Balloon.-Dr. Ferguson's Secret |
CHAPTER FOURTH. | African Explorations.-Barth, Richardson, Overweg, Werne, Brun-Rollet, Penney, Andrea, Debono, Miani, Guillaume Lejean, Brace, Krapf and Rebmann, Maizan, Roscher, Burton and Speke |
CHAPTER FIFTH. | Kennedy's Dreams.-Articles and Pronouns in the Plural.-Dick's Insinuations.-A Promenade over the Map of Africa.-What is contained between two Points of the Compass.-Expeditions now on foot.-Speke and Grant.-Krapf, De Decken, and De Heuglin |
CHAPTER SIXTH. | A Servant-match him!-He can see the Satellites of Jupiter.-Dick and Joe hard at it.-Doubt and Faith.-The Weighing Ceremony.-Joe and Wellington.-He gets a Half-crown |
CHAPTER SEVENTH. | Geometrical Details.-Calculation of the Capacity of the Balloon.-The Double Receptacle.-The Covering.-The Car.-The Mysterious Apparatus.-The Provisions and Stores.-The Final Summing up |
CHAPTER EIGHTH. | Joe's Importance.-The Commander of the Resolute.-Kennedy's Arsenal.-Mutual Amenities.-The Farewell Dinner.-Departure on the 21st of February.-The Doctor's Scientific Sessions.-Duveyrier.-Livingstone.-Details of the Aerial Voyage.-Kennedy silenced |
CHAPTER NINTH. | They double the Cape.-The Forecastle.-A Course of Cosmography by Professor Joe.-Concerning the Method of guiding Balloons.-How to seek out Atmospheric Currents.-Eureka |
CHAPTER TENTH. | Former Experiments.-The Doctor's Five Receptacles.-The Gas Cylinder.-The Calorifere.-The System of Manoeuvring.-Success certain |
CHAPTER ELEVENTH. | The Arrival at Zanzibar.-The English Consul.-Ill-will of the Inhabitants.-The Island of Koumbeni.-The Rain-Makers.-Inflation of the Balloon.-Departure on the 18th of April.-The last Good-by.-The Victoria |
CHAPTER TWELFTH | Crossing the Strait.-The Mrima.-Dick's Remark and Joe's Proposition.-A Recipe for Coffee-making.-The Uzaramo.-The Unfortunate Maizan.-Mount Duthumi.-The Doctor's Cards.-Night under a Nopal |
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH. | Change of Weather.-Kennedy has the Fever.-The Doctor's Medicine.-Travels on Land.-The Basin of Imenge.-Mount Rubeho.-Six Thousand Feet Elevation.-A Halt in the Daytime |
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. | The Forest of Gum-Trees.-The Blue Antelope.-The Rallying-Signal.-An Unexpected Attack.-The Kanyeme.-A Night in the Open Air.-The Mabunguru.-Jihoue-la-Mkoa.-A Supply of Water.-Arrival at Kazeh |
CHAPTER FIFTEENTH. | Kazeh.-The Noisy Market-place.-The Appearance of the Balloon.-The Wangaga.-The Sons of the Moon.-The Doctor's Walk.-The Population of the Place.-The Royal Tembe.-The Sultan's Wives.-A Royal Drunken-Bout.-Joe an Object of Worship.-How they Dance in the Moon.-A Reaction.-Two Moons in one Sky.-The Instability of Divine Honors |
CHAPTER SIXTEENTH. | Symptoms of a Storm.-The Country of the Moon.-The Future of the African Continent.-The Last Machine of all.-A View of the Country at Sunset.-Flora and Fauna.-The Tempest.-The Zone of Fire.-The Starry Heavens. |
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH. | The Mountains of the Moon.-An Ocean of Venture.-They cast Anchor.-The Towing Elephant.-A Running Fire.-Death of the Monster.-The Field Oven.-A Meal on the Grass.-A Night on the Ground |
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH. | The Karagwah.-Lake Ukereoue.-A Night on an Island.-The Equator.-Crossing the Lake.-The Cascades.-A View of the Country.-The Sources of the Nile.-The Island of Benga.-The Signature of Andrea Debono.-The Flag with the Arms of England |
CHAPTER NINETEENTH. | The Nile.-The Trembling Mountain.-A Remembrance of the Country.-The Narratives of the Arabs.-The Nyam-Nyams.-Joe's Shrewd Cogitations.-The Balloon runs the Gantlet.-Aerostatic Ascensions.-Madame Blanchard. |
CHAPTER TWENTIETH. | The Celestial Bottle.-The Fig-Palms.-The Mammoth Trees.-The Tree of War.-The Winged Team.-Two Native Tribes in Battle.-A Massacre.-An Intervention from above |
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. | Strange Sounds.-A Night Attack.-Kennedy and Joe in the Tree.-Two Shots.-"Help! help!"-Reply in French.-The Morning.-The Missionary.-The Plan of Rescue |
CHAPTER TWENTY-SECOND. | The Jet of Light.-The Missionary.-The Rescue in a Ray of Electricity.-A Lazarist Priest.-But little Hope.-The Doctor's Care.-A Life of Self-Denial.-Passing a Volcano |
CHAPTER TWENTY-THIRD. | Joe in a Fit of Rage.-The Death of a Good Man.-The Night of watching by the Body.-Barrenness and Drought.-The Burial.-The Quartz Rocks.-Joe's Hallucinations.-A Precious Ballast.-A Survey of the Gold-bearing Mountains.-The Beginning of Joe's Despair |
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOURTH. | The Wind dies away.-The Vicinity of the Desert.-The Mistake in the Water Supply.-The Nights of the Equator.-Dr. Ferguson's Anxieties.-The Situation flatly stated.-Energetic Replies of Kennedy and Joe.-One Night more |
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIFTH. | A Little Philosophy.-A Cloud on the Horizon.-In the Midst of a Fog.-The Strange Balloon.-An Exact View of the Victoria.-The Palm-Trees.-Traces of a Caravan.-The Well in the Midst of the Desert |
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXTH. | One Hundred and Thirteen Degrees.-The Doctor's Reflections.-A Desperate Search.-The Cylinder goes out.-One Hundred and Twenty-two Degrees.-Contemplation of the Desert.-A Night Walk.-Solitude.-Debility.-Joe's Prospects.-He gives himself One Day more |
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH. | Terrific Heat.-Hallucinations.-The Last Drops of Water.-Nights of Despair.-An Attempt at Suicide.-The Simoom.-The Oasis.-The Lion and Lioness. |
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTH. | An Evening of Delight.-Joe's Culinary Performances.-A Dissertation on Raw Meat.-The Narrative of James Bruce.-Camping out.-Joe's Dreams.-The Barometer begins to fall.-The Barometer rises again.-Preparations for Departure.-The Tempest |
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINTH. | Signs of Vegetation.-The Fantastic Notion of a French Author.-A Magnificent Country.-The Kingdom of Adamova.-The Explorations of Speke and Burton connected with those of Dr. Barth.-The Atlantika Mountains.-The River Benoue.-The City of Yola.-The Bagele.-Mount Mendif |
CHAPTER THIRTIETH. | Mosfeia.-The Sheik.-Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney.-Vogel.-The Capital of Loggoum.-Toole.-Becalmed above Kernak.-The Governor and his Court.-The Attack.-The Incendiary Pigeons |
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIRST. | Departure in the Night-time.-All Three.-Kennedy's Instincts.-Precautions.-The Course of the Shari River.-Lake Tchad.-The Water of the Lake.-The Hippopotamus.-One Bullet thrown away |
CHAPTER THIRTY-SECOND. | Departure in the Night-time.-All Three.-Kennedy's Instincts.-Precautions.-The Course of the Shari River.-Lake Tchad.-The Water of the Lake.-The Hippopotamus.-One Bullet thrown away |
CHAPTER THIRTY-THIRD. | Conjectures.-Reestablishment of the Victoria's Equilibrium.-Dr. Ferguson's New Calculations.-Kennedy's Hunt.-A Complete Exploration of Lake Tchad.-Tangalia.-The Return.-Lari |
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOURTH. | The Hurricane.-A Forced Departure.-Loss of an Anchor.-Melancholy Reflections.-The Resolution adopted.-The Sand-Storm.-The Buried Caravan.-A Contrary yet Favorable Wind.-The Return southward.-Kennedy at his Post |
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIFTH. | What happened to Joe.-The Island of the Biddiomahs.-The Adoration shown him.-The Island that sank.-The Shores of the Lake.-The Tree of the Serpents.-The Foot-Tramp.-Terrible Suffering.-Mosquitoes and Ants.-Hunger.-The Victoria seen.-She disappears.-The Swamp.-One Last Despairing Cry |
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXTH. | A Throng of People on the Horizon.-A Troop of Arabs.-The Pursuit.-It is He.-Fall from Horseback.-The Strangled Arab.-A Ball from Kennedy.-Adroit Manoeuvres.-Caught up flying.-Joe saved at last |
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVENTH. | The Western Route.-Joe wakes up.-His Obstinacy.-End of Joe's Narrative.-Tagelei.-Kennedy's Anxieties.-The Route to the North.-A Night near Aghades |
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHTH. | A Rapid Passage.-Prudent Resolves.-Caravans in Sight.-Incessant Rains.-Goa.-The Niger.-Golberry, Geoffroy, and Gray.-Mungo Park.-Laing.-Rene Caillie.-Clapperton.-John and Richard Lander |
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINTH. | The Country in the Elbow of the Niger.-A Fantastic View of the Hombori Mountains.-Kabra.-Timbuctoo.-The Chart of Dr. Barth.-A Decaying City.-Whither Heaven wills |
CHAPTER FORTIETH. | Dr. Ferguson's Anxieties.-Persistent Movement southward.-A Cloud of Grasshoppers.-A View of Jenne.-A View of Sego.-Change of the Wind.-Joe's Regrets |
CHAPTER FORTY-FIRST. | The Approaches to Senegal.-The Balloon sinks lower and lower.-They keep throwing out, throwing out.-The Marabout Al-Hadji.-Messrs. Pascal, Vincent, and Lambert.-A Rival of Mohammed.-The Difficult Mountains.-Kennedy's Weapons.-One of Joe's Manoeuvres.-A Halt over a Forest |
CHAPTER FORTY-SECOND. | A Struggle of Generosity.-The Last Sacrifice.-The Dilating Apparatus.-Joe's Adroitness.-Midnight.-The Doctor's Watch.-Kennedy's Watch.-The Latter falls asleep at his Post.-The Fire.-The Howlings of the Natives.-Out of Range |
CHAPTER FORTY-THIRD. | The Talabas.-The Pursuit.-A Devastated Country.-The Wind begins to fall.-The Victoria sinks.-The last of the Provisions.-The Leaps of the Balloon.-A Defence with Fire-arms.-The Wind freshens.-The Senegal River.-The Cataracts of Gouina.-The Hot Air.-The Passage of the River |
CHAPTER FORTY-FOURTH. | Conclusion.-The Certificate.-The French Settlements.-The Post of Medina.-The Battle.-Saint Louis.-The English Frigate.-The Return to London. |
I | Mysterious sounds |
II | Agreement Impossible |
III | A Visitor is Announced |
IV | In Which a New Character Appears |
V | Another Disappearance |
VI | The President and Secretary Suspend Hostilities |
VII | On board the Albatross |
VIII | The Balloonists Refuse to be Convinced |
IX | Across the Prairie |
X | Westward—but Whither? |
XI | The Wide Pacific |
XII | Through the Himalayas |
XIII | Over the Caspian |
XIV | The Aeronef at Full Speed |
XV | A Skirmish in Dahomey |
XVI | Over the Atlantic |
XVII | The Shipwrecked Crew |
XVIII | Over the Volcano |
XIX | Anchored at Last |
XX | The Wreck of the Albatross |
XXI | The Institute Again |
XXII | The Go-Ahead is Launched |
XXIII | The Grand Collapse |
1 | What Happened in the Mountains |
2 | I Reach Morganton |
3 | The Great Eyrie |
4 | A Meeting of the Automobile Club |
5 | Along the Shores of New England |
6 | The First Letter |
7 | A Third Machine |
8 | At Any Cost |
9 | The Second Letter |
10 | Outside the Law |
11 | The Campaign |
12 | Black Rock Creek |
13 | On Board the Terror |
14 | Niagara |
15 | The Eagle's Nest |
16 | Robur, the Conqueror |
17 | In the Name of the Law |
18 | The Old Housekeeper's Last Comment |
A Soiree at Fort Reliance |
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The Hudson's Bay Fur Company |
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A Savant Thawed |
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A Factory |
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From Fort Reliance to Fort enterprise |
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A Wapiti Duel |
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The Arctic Circle |
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The Great Bear Lake |
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A Storm on the Lake |
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A Retrospect |
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Along the Coast |
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The Midnight Sun |
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Fort Hope |
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Some Excursions |
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Fifteen Miles from Cape Bathurst |
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Two Shots |
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The Approach of Winter |
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The Polar Night |
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A Neighbourly Visit |
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Mercury Freezes |
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The Large Polar Bears |
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Five Months More |
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The Eclipse of the 18th June 1860 |
A Floating Fort |
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Where Are We? |
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A Tour Of The Island |
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A Night Encampment |
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From July 25th To August 20th |
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Ten Days Of Tempest |
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A Fire And A Cry |
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Mrs. Paulina Barnett's Excursion |
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Kalumah's Adventures |
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The Kamtchatka Current |
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A Communication From Lieutenant Hobson |
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A Chance To Be Tried |
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Across The Ice-Field |
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The Winter Months |
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A Last Exploring Expedition |
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The Break-Up Of The Ice |
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The Avalanche |
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All At Work |
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Behring Sea |
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In The Offing |
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The Island Becomes An Isle |
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The Four Following Days |
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On A Piece Of Ice |
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Conclusion |
I | THE DOLPHIN |
II | GETTING UNDER SAIL |
III | THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM |
IV | CROCKSTON'S TRICK |
V | THE SHOT FROM THE IROQUOIS, AND MISS JENNY'S ARGUMENTS |
VI | SULLIVAN ISLAND CHANNEL |
VII | A SOUTHERN GENERAL |
VIII | THE ESCAPE |
IX | BETWEEN TWO FIRES |
X | ST. MUNGO |
PART I |
SHIPWRECKED IN THE AIR |
The Hurricane of 1865-Cries in the Air-A Balloon Caught By a Waterspout-Only the Sea in Sight-Five Passengers-What Took Place in the Basket-Land Ahead!-The End. |
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An Episode of the Rebellion-The Engineer Cyrus Smith-Gideon Spilett-The Negro Neb-The Sailor Pencroft-The Youth, Herbert-An Unexpected Proposal-Rendezvous at 10 O'clock P.M.-Departure in the Storm. |
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Five O'clock in the Afternoon-The Lost One-The Despair of Neb-Search to the Northward-The Island-A Night of Anguish-The Fog of the Morning-Neb Swimming-Sight of the Land-Fording the Channel. |
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The Lithodomes-The Mouth of the River-The "Chimneys"-Continuation of the Search-The Forest of Evergreens-Getting Firewood-Waiting for the Tide-On Top of the Cliff-The Timber-Float-The Return to the Coast. |
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Arranging the Chimneys-The Important Question of Fire-The Match Box-Search Over the Shore-Return of the Reporter and Neb-One Match-The Crackling Fire-The Fish Supper-The First Night on Land. |
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The Castaways' Inventory-No Effects-The Charred Linen-An Expedition Into the Forest-The Flora of the Woods-The Flight of the Jacamar-Tracks of Wild Beasts-The Couroucous-The Heath-Cock-Line-Fishing Extraordinary. |
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Neb Has Not Yet Returned-The Reflections of the Reporter-The Supper-Prospect of a Bad Night-The Storm Is Frightful-They Go Out Into the Night-Struggle with the Rain and Wind. |
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Is Cyrus Smith Alive?-Neb's Story-Footprints-An Insoluble Question-The First Words of Smith-Comparing the Footprints-Return to the Chimneys-Pencroff Dejected. |
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Cyrus Is Here-Pencroff's Attempts-Rubbing Wood-Island or Continent-The Plans of the Engineer-Whereabouts in the Pacific-In the Depths of the Forest-The Pistachio Pine-A Pig Chase-A Smoke of Good Omen. |
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The Engineer's Invention-Island Or Continent?-Departure for the Mountain-The Forest-Volcanic Soil-The Tragopans-The Moufflons-The First Plateau-Encamping for the Night-The Summit of the Cone |
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At the Summit of the Cone-The Interior of the Crater-Sea Everywhere-No Land in Sight-A Bird's Eve View of the Coast-Hydrography and Orography-Is the Island Inhabited?-A Geographical Baptism-Lincoln Island. |
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Regulation of Watches-Pencroff Is Satisfied-A Suspicious Smoke-The Course of Red Creek-The Flora of the Island-Its Fauna-Mountain Pheasants-A Kangaroo Chase-The Agouti-Lake Grant-Return to the Chimneys. |
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Top's Contribution-Making Bows and Arrows-A Brick-Kiln-A Pottery-Different Cooking Utensils-The First Boiled Meat-Mugwort-The Southern Cross-An Important Astronomical Observation. |
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The Measure Of the Granite Wall-An Application of the Theorem of Similar Triangles-The Latitude of the Island-An Excursion to the North-An Oyster-Bed-Plans for the Future-The Sun's Passage of the Meridian-The Co-ordinates of Lincoln Island. |
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Winter Sets In-The Metallurgic Question-The Exploration of Safety Island-A Seal Hunt-Capture of an Echidna-The Ai-The Catalonian Method-Making Iron and Steel. |
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The Question of a Dwelling Discussed Again-Pencroff's Ideas-An Exploration to the North of the Lake-The Western Boundary of the Plateau-The Serpents-The Outlet of the Lake-Top's Alarm-Top Swimming-A Fight Under Water-The Dugong. |
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A Visit to the Lake-The Direction of the Current-The Prospects of Cyrus Smith-The Dugong Fat-The Use of the Schistous Limestone-The Sulphate of Iron-How Glycerine Is Made-Soap-Saltpetre-Sulphuric Acid-Nitric Acid-The New Outlet. |
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Pencroff Doubts No More-The Old Outlet of the Lake-A Subterranean Descent-The Way Through the Granite-Top Has Disappeared-The Central Cavern-The Lower Well-Mystery-The Blows with the Pick-The Return. |
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Smith's Plan-The Front of Granite House-The Rope Ladder-Pencroff's Ideas-The Aromatic Herbs-A Natural Warren-Getting Water-The View From the Windows of Granite House. |
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The Rainy Season-What to Wear-A Seal-Hunt-Candle-Making--Work in the Granite House-The Two Causeways-Return From a Visit to the Oyster-Bed-What Herbert Found in His Pocket. |
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Several Degrees Below Zero-Exploration of the Swamp Region to the Southeast-The View of the Sea-A Conversation Concerning the Future of the Pacific Ocean-The Incessant Labor of the Infusoria-What Will Become of This Globe-The Chase-The Swamp of the Tadorns. |
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XXII. |
The Traps-The Foxes-The Peccaries-The Wind Veers to the Northwest-The Snow-Storm-The Basket-Makers-The Coldest Snap of Winter-Crystallization of the Sugar-Maple-The Mysterious Shafts-The Projected Exploration-The Pellet of Lead. |
PART II |
THE ABANDONED |
Concerning the Leaden Pellet-Making a Canoe-Hunting-In the Top of a Kauri-Nothing to Indicate the Presence of Man-The Turtle on its Back-The Turtle Disappears-Smith's Explanation. |
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Trial of the Canoe-A Wreck on the Shore-The Tow-Jetsam Point-Inventory of the Box-What Pencroff Wanted-A Bible-A Verse from the Bible. |
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The Departure-The Rising Tide-Elms and Other Trees-Different Plants-The Kingfisher-Appearance of the Forest-The Gigantic Eucalypti-Why They Are Called Fever-Trees-Monkeys-The Waterfall-Encampment for the Night. |
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Going Toward the Coast-Troops of Monkeys-A New Water-Course-Why the Tide Was Not Felt-A Forest on the Shore-Reptile Promontory-Spilett Makes Herbert Envious-The Bamboo Fusilade. |
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Proposal to Return By the South Coast-Its Configuration-Search for the Shipwrecked-A Waif in the Air-Discovery of a Small Natural Harbor-Midnight on the Mercy-A Drifting Canoe. |
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Pencroff's Halloos-A Night in the Chimneys-Herbert's Arrow-Smith's Plan-An Unexpected Solution-What Had Happened in Granite House-How the Colonists Obtained a New Domestic. |
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Projects to Be Carried Out-A Bridge Over the Mercy-To Make An Island of Prospect Plateau-The Draw-Bridge-The Corn Harvest-The Stream-The Causeway-The Poultry Yard-The Pigeon-House-The Two Wild Asses-Harnessed to the Wagon-Excursion to Balloon Harbor. |
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Clothing-Seal-Skin Boots-Making Pyroxyline-Planting-The Fish-Turtles' Eggs-Jup's Education-The Corral-Hunting Moufflons-Other Useful Animals and Vegetables-Home Thoughts. |
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Bad Weather-The Hydraulic Elevator-Making Window Glass and Table Ware-The Bread Tree-Frequent Visits to the Corral-The Increase of the Herd-The Reporter's Question-The Exact Position of Lincoln Island-Pencroff's Proposal. |
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Ship Building-The Second Harvest-Ai Hunting-A New Plant-A Whale-The Harpoon From the Vineyard-Cutting Up This Cetacea-Use of the Whalebone-The End of May-PencroffIs Content. |
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Winter-Fulling Cloth-The Mill-Pencroff's Fixed Purpose-The Whalebones-The Use of An Albatross-Top and Jup-Storms-Damage to the Poultry-Yard-An Excursion to the Marsh-Smith Alone-Exploration of the Pits. |
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Rigging the Launch-Attacked By Foxes-Jup Wounded-Jup Nursed-Jup Cured-Completion of the Launch-Pencroff's Triumph-The Good Luck-Trial Trip, to the South of the Island-An Unexpected Document. |
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Departure Decided Upon-Preparations-The Three Passengers-The First Night-The Second Night-Tabor Island-Search on the Shore-Search in the Woods-No One-Animals-Plants-A House-Deserted. |
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The Inventory-The Night-Some Letters-The Search Continued-Plants and Animals-Herbert in Danger-Aboard-The Departure-Bad Weather-A Glimmer of Intelligence-Lost At Sea-A Timely Light. |
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The Return-Discussion-Smith and the Unknown-Balloon Harbor-The Devotion of the Engineer-A Touching Experience-Tears. |
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A Mystery to Be Solved-The First Words of the Unknown-Twelve Years on the Island-Confessions-Disappearance-Smith's Confidence-Building a Wind-Mill-The First Bread-An Act of Devotion-Honest Hands. |
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Always Apart-A Bequest of the Unknown's-The Farm Established At the Corral-Twelve Years-The Boatswain's Mate of the Britannia-Left on Tabor Island-The Hand of Smith-The Mysterious Paper |
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A Talk-Smith and Spilett-The Engineer's Idea-The Electric Telegraph-The Wires-The Batter-the Alphabet-Fine Weather-The Prosperity of the Colony-Photography-A Snow Effect-Two Years on Lincoln Island. |
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Thoughts of Home-Chances of Return-Plan to Explore the Coast-The Departure of the 16th of April-Serpentine Peninsula Seen From Sea-The Basaltic Cliffs of the Western Coast-Bad Weather-Night-A New Incident. |
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Night At Sea-Shark Gulf-Confidences-Preparations for Winter-Early Advent of Bad Weather-Cold-In-Door Work-Six Months Later-A Speck on the Photograph-An Unexpected Event. |
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PART III |
THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND |
Lost Or Saved?-Ayrton Recalled-Important Discussion-It Is Not the Duncan-Suspicion And Precaution-Approach of the Ship-A Cannon Shot-The Brig Anchors in Sight of the Island-Night Fall. |
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Discussions-Presentiments-Ayrton's Proposal-It Is Accepted-Ayrton and Pencroff on Safety Islet-Norfolk Convicts-Their Projects-Heroic Attempt of Ayrton-His Return-Six Against Fifty. |
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The Mist Rises-The Engineer's Disposition of Forces-Three Posts-Ayrton and Pencroft-The First Attack-Two Other Boat Loads-On the Islet-Six Convicts on Shore-The Brig Weighs Anchor-The Speedy's Projectiles-Desperate Situation-Unexpected Denouement. |
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The Colonists on the Beach-Ayrton and Pencroff as Salvors-Talk At Breakfast-Pencroff's Reasoning-Exploration of the Brig's Hull in Detail-The Magazine Uninjured-New Riches-A Discovery-A Piece of a Broken Cylinder. |
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The Engineer's Theory-Pencroff's Magnificent Suppositions-A Battery in the Air-Four Projectiles-The Surviving Convicts-Ayrton Hesitates-Smith's Generosity and Pencroff's Dissatisfaction. |
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The Projected Expedition-Ayrton At the Corral-Visit to Port Balloon-Pencroff's Remarks-Despatch Sent to the Corral-No Answer From Ayrton-Setting Out Next Day-Why the Wire Did Not Act-A Detonation. |
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The Reporter and Pencroff in the Corral-Moving Herbert-Despair of the Sailor-Consultation of the Engineer and the Reporter-Mode of Treatment-A Glimmer of Hope-How to Warn Neb-A Faithful Messenger-Neb's Reply. |
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The Convicts in the Neighborhood of the Corral-Provisional Occupation-Continuation of Herbert's Treatment-Pencroff's Jubilation-Review of the Past-Future Prospects-Smith's Ideas. |
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No News of Neb-A Proposal From Pencroff and Spilett-The Reporter's Sorties-A Fragment Of Cloth-A Message-Hurried Departure-Arrival At Prospect Plateau. |
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Herbert Carried to Granite House-Neb Relates What Had Happened-Visit of Smith to the Plateau-Ruin and Devastation-The Colonists Helpless-Willow Bark-A Mortal Fever-Top Barks Again. |
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An Inexplicable Mystery-Herbert's Convalescence-The Unexplored Parts of the Island-Preparations for Departure-The First Day-Night-Second Day-The Kauris-Cassowaries-Footprints in the Sand-Arrival At Reptile End. |
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Exploration of Reptile End-Camp At the Mouth of Fall River-By the Corral-The Reconnaissance-The Return-Forward-An Open Door-A Light in the Window-By Moonlight. |
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Ayrton's Recital-Plans of His Old Comrades-Taking Possession of the Corral-The Rules of the Island-The Good Luck-Researches About Mount Franklin-The Upper Valleys-Subterranean Rumblings-Pencroff's Answer-At the Bottom of the Crater-The Return |
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After Three Years-The Question of a New Ship-Its Determination-Prosperity of the Colony-The Shipyard-The Cold Weather-Pencroff Resigned-Washing-Mount Franklin. |
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The Awakening of the Volcano-The Fine Weather-Resumption of Work-The Evening of the 15th of October-A Telegraph-A Demand-An Answer-Departure for the Corral-The Notice-The Extra Wire-The Basalt Wall-At High Tide-At Low Tide-The Cavern-A Dazzling Light. |
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Captain Nemo-His First Words-History of a Hero of Liberty-Hatred of the Invaders-His Companions-The Life Under Water-Alone-The Last Refuge of the Nautilus-The Mysterious Genius of the Island. |
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The Last Hours of Captain Nemo-His Dying Wishes-A Souvenir for His Friends-His Tomb-Some Counsel to the Colonists-The Supreme Moment-At the Bottom of the Sea. |
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The Reflections of the Colonists-Renewal of Work-The 1st of January, 1869-A Smoke From the Volcano-Symptoms of An Eruption Ayrton and Smith At the Corral-Exploration of the Crypt Dakkar-What Captain Nemo Had Said to the Engineer. |
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Smith's Recital-Hastening the Work-A Last Visit to the Corral-The Combat Between the Fire and the Water-The Aspect of the Island-They Decide to Launch the Ship-The Night of the 8th of March. |
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An Isolated Rock in the Pacific-The Last Refuge of the Colonists-The Prospect of Death-Unexpected Succor-How and Why It Came-The Last Good Action-An Island on Terra Firma-The Tomb of Captain Nemo. |
PART THE FIRST | |
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I | THE "PILGRIM" |
II | THE APPRENTICE |
III | A RESCUE |
IV | THE SURVIVORS OF THE "WALDECK" |
V | DINGO'S SAGACITY |
VI | A WHALE IN SIGHT |
VII | PREPARATIONS FOR AN ATTACK |
VIII | A CATASTROPHE |
IX | DICK'S PROMOTION |
X | THE NEW CREW |
XI | ROUGH WEATHER |
XII | HOPE REVIVED |
XIII | LAND AT LAST |
XIV | ASHORE |
XV | A STRANGER |
XVI | THROUGH THE FOREST |
XVII | MISGIVINGS |
XVIII | A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY |
PART THE SECOND | |
I | THE DARK CONTINENT |
II | ACCOMPLICES |
III | ON THE MARCH AGAIN |
IV | ROUGH TRAVELLING |
V | WHITE ANTS |
VI | A DIVING-BELL |
VII | A SLAVE CARAVAN |
VIII | NOTES BY THE WAY |
IX | KAZONDÉ |
X | MARKET-DAY |
XI | A BOWL OF PUNCH |
XII | ROYAL OBSEQUIES |
XIII | IN CAPTIVITY |
XIV | A RAY OF HOPE |
XV | AN EXCITING CHASE |
XVI | A MAGICIAN |
XVII | DRIFTING DOWN THE STREAM |
XVIII | AN ANXIOUS VOYAGE |
XIX | AN ATTACK |
XX | A HAPPY REUNION. |
CHAPTER I. | THE DOCTOR'S INVENTORY | 1 |
CHAPTER II. | FIRST WORDS OF ALTAMONT | 10 |
CHAPTER III. | A SEVENTEEN DAYS' MARCH | 22 |
CHAPTER IV. | THE LAST CHARGE OF POWDER | 32 |
CHAPTER V. | THE SEAL AND THE BEAR | 44 |
CHAPTER VI. | THE "PORPOISE" | 55 |
CHAPTER VII. | AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION | 66 |
CHAPTER VIII. | AN EXCURSION TO THE NORTH OF VICTORIA BAY | 77 |
CHAPTER IX. | COLD AND HEAT | 88 |
CHAPTER X. | WINTER PLEASURES | 97 |
CHAPTER XI. | TRACKS OF BEARS | 107 |
CHAPTER XII. | IMPRISIONED IN DOCTOR'S HOUSE | 118 |
CHAPTER XIII. | THE MINE | 130 |
CHAPTER XIV. | AN ARCTIC SPRING | 143 |
CHAPTER XV. | THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE | 154 |
CHAPTER XVI. | ARCTIC ARCADIA | 163 |
CHAPTER XVII. | ALTAMONT'S REVENGE | 173 |
CHAPTER XVIII. | FINAL PREPARATIONS | 181 |
CHAPTER XIX. | MARCH TO THE NORTH | 187 |
CHAPTER XX. | FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW | 199 |
CHAPTER XXI. | THE OPEN SEA | 209 |
CHAPTER XXII. | GETTING NEAR THE POLE | 216 |
CHAPTER XXIII. | THE ENGLISH FLAG | 227 |
CHAPTER XXIV. | MOUNT HATTERAS | 240 |
CHAPTER XXV. | RETURN SOUTH | 253 |
CHAPTER XXVI. | CONCLUSION | 264 |
The Tasman to the rescue | frontispiece |
The approach of the Halbrane | 11 |
Going aboard the Halbrane | 29 |
Cook's route was effectively barred by ice floes | 83 |
Taking in sail under difficulties | 103 |
"There, look there! That's a fin-back!" | 117 |
Hunt to the rescue | 127 |
Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm | 139 |
Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar | 161 |
Dirk Peters shows the way | 179 |
The half-breed in the crow's nest | 189 |
The Halbrane fast in the iceberg | 227 |
The Halbrane, staved in, broken up | 253 |
"I was afraid; I got away from him" | 267 |
William Guy | 299 |
An Antarctic Mystery | 321 |
The Paracuta | 329 |
Chapter I. | The Kerguelen Islands. |
Chapter II. | The Schooner Halbrane |
Chapter III. | Captain Len Guy |
Chapter IV. | From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island |
Chapter V. | Edgar Poe's Romance |
Chapter VI. | An Ocean Waif |
Chapter VII. | Tristan D'Acunha |
Chapter VIII. | Bound for the Falklands |
Chapter IX. | Fitting out the Halbrane |
Chapter X. | The Outset of the Enterprise |
Chapter XI. | From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle |
Chapter XII. | Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall |
Chapter XIII. | Along the Front of the Icebergs |
Chapter XIV. | A Voice in a Dream |
Chapter XV. | Bennet Islet |
Chapter XVI. | Tsalal Island |
Chapter XVII. | And Pym |
Chapter XVIII. | A Revelation |
Chapter XIX. | Land? |
Chapter XX. | "Unmerciful Disaster" |
Chapter XXI. | Amid the Mists |
Chapter XXII. | In Camp |
Chapter XXIII. | Found at Last |
Chapter XXIV. | Eleven Years in a Few Pages |
Chapter XXV. | "We Were the First" |
Chapter XXVI. | A Little Remnant |
IN WHICH THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL ASSOCIATION RUSHES A DOCUMENT ACROSS TWO WORLDS |
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IN WHICH THE DELEGATES FROM ENGLAND, HOLLAND, SWEDEN, DENMARK AND RUSSIA ARE PRESENTED TO THE READER |
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IN WHICH THE ARCTIC REGIONS ARE SOLD AT AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER |
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IN WHICH OLD ACQUAINTANCES APPEAR TO OUR NEW READERS, AND IN WHICH A WONDERFUL MAN IS DESCRIBED |
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IN WHICH THE POSSIBILITY THAT COAL MINES SURROUND THE NORTH POLE IS CONSIDERED |
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IN WHICH A TELEPHONE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MRS SCORBITT AND J. T. MASTON IS INTERRUPTED |
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IN WHICH PRESIDENT BARBICANE SAYS NO MORE THAN SUITS HIS PURPOSE |
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YES, JUST LIKE JUPITER |
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IN WHICH APPEARS THE FRENCH GENTLEMAN TO WHOM WE REFERRED AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS TRUTHFUL STORY |
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IN WHICH A LITTLE UNEASINESS BEGINS TO SHOW ITSELF |
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WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE NOTEBOOK OF J. T. MASTON AND WHAT IT NO LONGER CONTAINED |
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IN WHICH J. T. MASTON HEROICALLY CONTINUES TO BE SILENT |
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AT THE CLOSE OF WHICH JT MASTON UTTERS AN EPIGRAM |
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VERY SHORT, BUT IN WHICH "X" TAKES A GEOGRAPHICAL VALUE |
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WHICH CONTAINS A FEW INTERESTING DETAILS FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTHLY SPHERE |
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IN WHICH A CROWD OF DISSATISFIED PEOPLE BREAK INTO THE CELL OF J. T. MASTON |
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WHAT HAD BEEN DONE AT KILIMANJARO DURING EIGHT MONTH OF THIS MEMORABLE YEAR |
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IN WHICH THE POPULATION OF WAMASAI ASSEMBLE TO HEAR PRESIDENT BARBICANE SAY "FIRE" TO CAPT NICHOLL |
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IN WHICH J. T. MASTON REGRETS THAT THE CROWD DID NOT LYNCH HIM WHEN HE WAS IN PRISON |
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IN WHICH THIS STORY, AS TRUTHFUL AS IT IS IMPROBABLE, IS FINISHED |
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VERY SHORT, SINCE ENOUGH HAS BEEN SAID TO MAKE THE WORLD'S POPULATION FEEL PERFECTLY SURE AGAIN |
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I | Healthful House |
II | Count d'Artigas |
III | Kidnapped |
IV | The Schooner "Ebba" |
V | Where am I.--(Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.) |
VI | On Deck |
VII | Two Days at Sea |
VIII | Back Cup |
IX | Inside Back Cup |
X | Ker Karraje |
XI | Five Weeks in Back Cup |
XII | Engineer Serko's Advice |
XIII | God Be with It |
XIV | Battle Between the "Sword" and the Tug |
XV | Expectation |
XVI | Only a few more Hours |
XVII | One against Five |
XVIII | On Board the "Tonnant" |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER |
CHAPTER I. FROM 10 P.M. TO 10. 46' 40'' |
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST HALF HOUR |
CHAPTER III. THEY MAKE THEMSELVES AT HOME AND FEEL QUITE COMFORTABLE |
CHAPTER IV. FOR THE CORNELL GIRLS |
CHAPTER V. THE COLDS OF SPACE |
CHAPTER VI. INSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION |
CHAPTER VII. A HIGH OLD TIME |
CHAPTER VIII. THE NEUTRAL POINT |
CHAPTER IX. A LITTLE OFF THE TRACK |
CHAPTER X. THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON |
CHAPTER XI. FACT AND FANCY |
CHAPTER XII. A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THE LUNAR MOUNTAINS |
CHAPTER XIII. LUNAR LANDSCAPES |
CHAPTER XIV. A NIGHT OF FIFTEEN DAYS |
CHAPTER XV. GLIMPSES AT THE INVISIBLE |
CHAPTER XVI. THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE |
CHAPTER XVII. TYCHO |
CHAPTER XVIII. PUZZLING QUESTIONS |
CHAPTER XIX. IN EVERY FIGHT, THE IMPOSSIBLE WINS |
CHAPTER XX. OFF THE PACIFIC COAST |
CHAPTER XXI. NEWS FOR MARSTON! |
CHAPTER XXII. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND |
CHAPTER XXIII. THE CLUB MEN GO A FISHING |
CHAPTER XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE BALTIMORE GUN CLUB |
1. HIS FIRST CARE WAS TO TURN ON THE GAS |
2. DIANA AND SATELLITE |
3. HE HELPED ARDAN TO LIFT BARBICAN |
4. MORE HUNGRY THAN EITHER |
5. THEY DRANK TO THE SPEEDY UNION OF THE EARTH AND HER SATELLITE |
6. DON'T I THOUGH? MY HEAD IS SPLITTING WITH IT! |
7. POOR SATELLITE WAS DROPPED OUT |
8. THE BODY OF THE DOG THROWN OUT YESTERDAY |
9. A DEMONIACAL HULLABALOO |
10. THE OXYGEN! HE CRIED |
11. A GROUP à la Jardin Mabille |
12. AN IMMENSE BATTLE-FIELD PILED WITH BLEACHING BONES |
13. NEVERTHELESS THE SOLUTION ESCAPED HIM |
14. IT'S COLD ENOUGH TO FREEZE A WHITE BEAR |
15. THEY COULD UTTER NO WORD, THEY COULD BREATHE NO PRAYER |
16. THEY SEEMED HALF ASLEEP IN HIS VITALIZING BEAMS |
17. THESE ARCHES EVIDENTLY ONCE BORE THE PIPES OF AN AQUEDUCT |
18. ARDAN GAZED AT THE PAIR FOR A FEW MINUTES |
19. OLD MAC DISCOVERED TAKING OBSERVATIONS |
20. FOR A SECOND ONLY DID THEY CATCH ITS FLASH |
21. HOW IS THAT FOR HIGH? |
22. EVERYWHERE THEIR DEPARTURE WAS ACCOMPANIED WITH THE MOST TOUCHING SYMPATHY |
CHAPTER 1 | MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER 2 | THE MYSTERIOUS PARCHMENT |
CHAPTER 3 | AN ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER 4 | WE START ON THE JOURNEY |
CHAPTER 5 | FIRST LESSONS IN CLIMBING |
CHAPTER 6 | OUR VOYAGE TO ICELAND |
CHAPTER 7 | CONVERSATION AND DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER 8 | THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER—OFF AT LAST |
CHAPTER 9 | OUR START—WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY |
CHAPTER 10 | TRAVELING IN ICELAND |
CHAPTER 11 | WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS—THE "REYKIR" |
CHAPTER 12 | THE ASCENT OF MOUNT SNEFFELS |
CHAPTER 13 | THE SHADOW OF SCARTARIS |
CHAPTER 14 | THE REAL JOURNEY COMMENCES |
CHAPTER 15 | WE CONTINUE OUR DESCENT |
CHAPTER 16 | THE EASTERN TUNNEL |
CHAPTER 17 | DEEPER AND DEEPER—THE COAL MINE |
CHAPTER 18 | THE WRONG ROAD! |
CHAPTER 19 | THE WESTERN GALLERY—A NEW ROUTE |
CHAPTER 20 | WATER, WHERE IS IT? A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT |
CHAPTER 21 | UNDER THE OCEAN |
CHAPTER 22 | SUNDAY BELOW GROUND |
CHAPTER 23 | ALONE |
CHAPTER 24 | LOST! |
CHAPTER 25 | THE WHISPERING GALLERY |
CHAPTER 26 | A RAPID RECOVERY |
CHAPTER 27 | THE CENTRAL SEA |
CHAPTER 28 | LAUNCHING THE RAFT |
CHAPTER 29 | ON THE WATERS—A RAFT VOYAGE |
CHAPTER 30 | TERRIFIC SAURIAN COMBAT |
CHAPTER 31 | THE SEA MONSTER |
CHAPTER 32 | THE BATTLE OF THE ELEMENTS |
CHAPTER 33 | OUR ROUTE REVERSED |
CHAPTER 34 | A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER 35 | DISCOVERY UPON DISCOVERY |
CHAPTER 36 | WHAT IS IT? |
CHAPTER 37 | THE MYSTERIOUS DAGGER |
CHAPTER 38 | NO OUTLET—BLASTING THE ROCK |
CHAPTER 39 | THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS |
CHAPTER 40 | THE APE GIGANS |
CHAPTER 41 | HUNGER |
CHAPTER 42 | THE VOLCANIC SHAFT |
CHAPTER 43 | DAYLIGHT AT LAST |
CHAPTER 44 | THE JOURNEY ENDED |
CHAPTER I. |
In which the reader has the opportunity of buying an Island in the Pacific Ocean |
CHAPTER II. |
How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at loggerheads with J. R. Taskinar, of Stockton |
CHAPTER III. |
The conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with a piano accompaniment |
CHAPTER IV. |
In which T. Artelett, otherwise Tartlet, is duly introduced to the reader |
CHAPTER V. |
In which they prepare to go, and at the end of which they go for good |
CHAPTER VI. |
In which the reader makes the acquaintance of a new personage |
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CHAPTER VII. |
In which it will be seen that William W. Kolderup was probably right in insuring his ship |
CHAPTER VIII. |
Which leads Godfrey to bitter reflections on the mania for travelling |
CHAPTER IX. |
In which it is shown that Crusoes do not have everything as they wish |
CHAPTER X. |
In which Godfrey does what any other shipwrecked man would have done under the circumstances |
CHAPTER XI. |
In which the question of lodging is solved as well as it could be |
CHAPTER XII. |
Which ends with a thunder-bolt |
CHAPTER XIII. |
In which Godfrey again sees a slight smoke over another part of the Island |
CHAPTER XIV. |
Wherein Godfrey finds some wreckage, to which he and his companion give a hearty welcome |
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CHAPTER XV. |
In which there happens what happens at least once in the life of every Crusoe, real or imaginary |
CHAPTER XVI. |
In which something happens which cannot fail to surprise the reader |
CHAPTER XVII. |
In which Professor Tartlet's gun really does marvels |
CHAPTER XVIII. |
Which treats of the moral and physical education of a simple native of the Pacific |
CHAPTER XIX. |
In which the situation already gravely compromised becomes more and more complicated |
CHAPTER XX. |
In which Tartlet reiterates in every key that he would rather be off |
CHAPTER XXI. |
Which ends with quite a surprising reflection by the negro Carefinotu |
CHAPTER XXII. |
Which concludes by explaining what up to now had appeared inexplicable |
"Going! Going!"—Frontispiece |
Nothing appeared through the mist. |
"An Island!" |
There was the column of smoke. |
"A Canoe!" |
Of lions and tigers quite a score. |
Map of the World as known to the Ancients. |
Approach to Constantinople. Anselmi Banduri Imperium orientale, tome II., p. 448. 2 vols. folio. Parisiis, 1711. |
Map of the World according to Marco Polo's ideas. Vol. I., p. 134 of the edition of Marco Polo published in London by Colonel Yule, 2 vols. 8vo. |
Plan of Pekin in 1290. Yule's edition. Vol. I., p. 332. |
Portrait of Jean de Béthencourt. "The discovery and conquest of the Canaries." Page 1, 12mo. Paris, 1630. |
Plan of Jerusalem. "Narrative of the journey beyond seas to the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem," by Antoine Régnant, p. 229, 4to. Lyons, 1573. |
Prince Henry the Navigator. From a miniature engraved in "The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator," by H. Major. 8vo. London, 1877. |
Christopher Columbus. Taken from "Vitæ illustrium virorum," by Paul Jove. Folio. Basileæ, Perna. |
Imaginary view of Seville. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, pl. I., part IV. |
Building of a caravel. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate XIX. |
Christopher Columbus on board his caravel. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate VI. |
Embarkation of Christopher Columbus. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate VIII. |
Map of the Antilles and the Gulf of Mexico. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part V. |
Fishing for Pearl oysters. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate XII. |
Gold-mines in Cuba. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part V., plate I. |
Vasco da Gama. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibl. Nat. |
La Mina. "Histoire générale des Voyages," by the Abbé Prévost. Vol. III., p. 461, 4to. 20 vols. An X. 1746. |
Map of the East Coast of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to the Cape del Gado. From the French map of the Eastern Ocean, published in 1740 by order of the Comte de Maurepas. |
Map of Mozambique. Bibl. Nat. Estampes. |
Interview with the Zamorin. "Hist. Gén. des Voyages," by Prévost. Vol. I., p. 39. 4to. An X. 20 vols. 1746. |
View of Quiloa. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes. Topography. (Africa). |
Map of the Coasts of Persia, Guzerat, and Malabar. From the French Map of the Eastern Ocean, pub. in 1740 by order of the Comte de Maurepas. |
The Island of Ormuz. "Hist. Gén. des Voyages." Prévost. Vol. II., p. 98. |
Americus Vespucius. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale. |
Indians devoured by dogs. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate XXII. |
Punishment of Indians. Page 17 of Las Casas' "Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam devastatarum," 4to. Francofurti, sumptibus Th. de Bry, 1698. |
Portrait of F. Cortès. From an engraving after Velasquez in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliothèque Nationale. |
Plan of Mexico. From Clavigero and Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Jourdanet's translation, 2nd Edition. |
Portrait of Pizarro. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bib. Nat. |
Map of Peru. From Garcilasso de la Vega. History of the Incas. 4to. Bernard, Amsterdam, 1738. |
Atahualpa taken prisoner. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part VI., plate VII. |
Assassination of Pizarro. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part VI., plate XV. |
Magellan on board his caravel. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Americæ, part IV., plate XV. |
Map of the Coast of Brazil. From the map called Henry 2nd's. Bibl. Nat., Geographical collections. |
The Ladrone Islands. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Occidentalis Indiæ, pars VIII., p. 50. |
Portrait of Sebastian Cabot. From a miniature engraved in "The remarkable Life, adventures, and discoveries of Sebastian Cabot," by Nicholls. 8vo. London, 1869. |
Fragment of Cabot's map. Bibl. Nat., Geographical collections. |
Map of Newfoundland and of the Mouth of the St. Lawrence. Lescarbot, "Histoire de la Nouvelle France." 12mo. Perier, Paris, 1617. |
Portrait of Jacques Cartier. After Charlevoix. "History and general description of New France," translated by John Gilmary Shea, p. III. 6 vols. 4to. Shea, New York, 1866. |
Barentz' ship fixed in the ice. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages. Tertia pars Indiæ Orientales, plate XLIV. |
Interior of Barentz' house. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages. Tertia pars Indiæ Orientalis, plate XLVII. |
Exterior view of Barentz' house. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages. Tertia pars Indiæ Orientalis, plate XLVIII. |
Map of Nova Zembla. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages. Tertia pars Indiæ Orientalis, plate LIX. |
A sea-lion hunt. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, Occidentalis Indiæ, pars VIII., p. 37. |
A fight between the Dutch and the Spaniards. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages, "Historiarum novi orbis;" part IX., book II., page 87. |
Portrait of Raleigh. From an engraving in the Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibl. Nat. |
Berreo seized by Raleigh. Th. de Bry. Grands Voyages. Occid. Indiæ, part VIII., p. 64. |
Portrait of Chardin. "Voyages de M. le Chevalier Chardin en Perse." Vol. I. 10 vols. 12mo. Ferrand, Rouen, 1723. |
Japanese Archer. From a Japanese print engraved by Yule, vol. II., p. 206. |
Attack upon an Indian Town. "Voyages du Sieur de Champlain," p. 44. 12mo. Collet, Paris, 1727. |
FIRST PART.CHAPTER I.CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.HANNO, 505; HERODOTUS, 484; PYTHEAS, 340; NEARCHUS, 326; EUDOXUS, 146; CÆSAR, 100; STRABO, 50.
CHAPTER II.CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS FROM THE FIRST TO THE NINTH CENTURY.PAUSANIAS, 174; FA-HIAN, 399; COSMOS INDICOPLEUSTES, 500; ARCULPHE, 700; WILLIBALD, 725; SOLEYMAN, 851.
CHAPTER III.CELEBRATED TRAVELLERS BETWEEN THE TENTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES.BENJAMIN OF TUDELA, 1159-1173; PLAN DE CARPIN, OR CARPINI, 1245-1247; RUBRUQUIS, 1253-1254.
CHAPTER IV.MARCO POLO, 1253-1324.I.
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III.
IV.
CHAPTER V.IBN BATUTA, 1328-1353.
CHAPTER VI.JEAN DE BÉTHENCOURT, 1339-1425.I.
II.
CHAPTER VII.CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, 1436-1506.I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
CHAPTER VIII.THE CONQUEST OF INDIA, AND OF THE SPICE COUNTRIES.I.
II.
SECOND PART.CHAPTER I.THE CONQUERORS OF CENTRAL AMERICA.I.
II.
III.
CHAPTER II.THE FIRST VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.
CHAPTER III.THE POLAR EXPEDITIONS AND THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE.I.
II.
CHAPTER IV.VOYAGES OF ADVENTURE AND PRIVATEERING WARFARE.
CHAPTER V.MISSIONARIES AND SETTLERS. MERCHANTS AND TOURISTS.I.
II.
CHAPTER VI.I.THE GREAT CORSAIR.
II. THE POLE AND AMERICA.
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Hoisting the signals for triangulation |
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis |
Selkirk falling over the precipice with his prey |
"I plunged my pike into his breast" |
Fight between the Centurion and a Spanish galleon |
"The council chose the latter alternative" |
"Most of them on horseback" |
"One of them tore the carrion with his teeth" |
"They made a thousand grimaces" |
The natives waving palm-leaves as a sign of welcome |
Head-dresses of natives of Otahiti |
"Pursued by the arrows of the natives" |
A struggle between the Swallow and a Malay prah |
Portrait of Bougainville |
"We made them sing" |
Lancers' Island |
Pirogue of the Marquesas Islands |
Mdlle. Barré's adventure |
Captain James Cook |
"They were pursued so closely" |
Otahitian flute-player |
A Fa-toka, New Zealand |
Interior of a morai in Hawaii |
Tatooed head of a New Zealander |
An I-pah |
A New Zealand family |
"They were kangaroos" |
Otahitian fleet off Oparee |
"Three Indians emerged from the wood" |
Among the icebergs |
New Zealand war canoe |
New Zealand utensils and weapons |
"Who passed his days in being fed by his wives" |
O-Too, King of Otaheite |
Monuments in Easter Island |
Natives of Easter Island |
Natives of the Marquesas |
Typical natives of the Sandwich Islands |
"The natives had sufficient confidence" |
"With the roof of considerable height" |
View of Christmas Sound |
Kerguelen Islands |
Fête in Cook's honour at Tonga |
Human sacrifice at Otahiti |
Tree, from beneath which Cook observed the transit of Venus |
Cook's reception by the natives |
Prince William's Sound |
"They gave him a little pig" |
Pirogues of the Admiralty Islands |
"Picking up the enemies' weapons" |
"A lighted brand was also presented to them" |
"The only one who had escaped" |
"A man's skull was found" |
Portrait of La Pérouse |
Costumes of the inhabitants of Conception |
Inhabitants of Easter Island |
Typical natives of the Port des Français |
Shipwreck of French boats outside the Port des Français |
"An Indian with a stag's head over his own" |
He traced the coast of Tartary |
Typical Orotchys |
Portrait of D'Entrecasteaux |
"They came upon four natives" |
Fête in honour of D'Entrecasteaux at the Friendly Islands |
Typical native of New Holland |
Natives of New Caledonia |
View of the Island of Bouron |
Native hut in Endracht Land |
King of the Island of Timor |
The Swan River |
"A sail was seen on the horizon" |
"The sick were carried on shore" |
View of Sydney |
Water-carrier at Timor |
"He received a cordial welcome" |
The Baobab |
Portrait of Mungo Park |
Natives of Senegal |
A Hottentot |
A Bosjeman |
"Till Master Rees had given his verdict" |
A Kaffir woman |
Portrait of James Bruce |
"I found the monarch seated on his throne" |
Chinese magic-lantern |
The Emperor of China |
The great wall of China |
Chinese Prime Minister |
"The famous bird Leutzé" |
Port Monterey |
Mackenzie's first view of the North Pacific Ocean |
Portrait of Condamine |
Celebrated Narrows of Manseriche |
Omagua Indians |
Portrait of Alex. de Humboldt |
Gigantic vegetation on the banks of the Temi |
Map of France, corrected by order of the King, in accordance with the instructions of the Members of the Academy of Sciences |
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere |
Straits of Magellan, after Bougainville |
Polynesia |
Map of Queen Charlotte Islands |
New Zealand |
Louisiade Archipelago |
Map of Australia, after Perron's atlas |
Map of the east coast of New Holland, after Cook |
Captain Cook's chart of Otaheite |
Itinerary of the principal voyagers during the 18th century, after Cook |
Map of Surville's discoveries, after Fleurieu |
Island discovered by M. Marion du Fresnes in 1772, called Prince Edward's Island by Cook in 1776 |
Map of the journey of La Pérouse, after the atlas published by General Millet-Mureau |
Map of the coast of Asia, after the map of La Pérouse's voyage |
Map of part of North Africa |
Map of part of Western Africa |
Map of the Empire of China |
Map of North-West America |
Map of the two Americas |
Itinerary of Humboldt's route in equinoctial America |
CHAPTER I.I.ASTRONOMERS AND CARTOGRAPHERS.
II. VOYAGES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER II.CAPTAIN COOK'S PREDECESSORS.I.
II.
III.
CHAPTER III.CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE.I.
II.
CHAPTER IV.CAPTAIN COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE.I.
II.
CHAPTER V.CAPTAIN COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE.I.
II.
SECOND PART.CHAPTER I.FRENCH NAVIGATORS.I.
II.
III.
CHAPTER II.AFRICAN EXPLORERS.
CHAPTER III.ASIA AND ITS INHABITANTS.
CHAPTER IV.THE TWO AMERICAS.
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THE PLAZA-MAYOR. |
EVENING IN THE STREETS OF LIMA. |
THE JEW EVERY WHERE A JEW. |
A SPANISH GRANDEE. |
THE HATRED OF THE INDIANS. |
THE BETROTHAL. |
ALL INTERESTS AT STAKE. |
CONQUERORS AND CONQUERED. |
THE CATARACTS OF THE MADEIRA. |
CHAPTER
I. How it is useless to seek, even on the best maps, for the small town of Quiquendone |
CHAPTER
II. In which the Burgomaster Van Tricasse and the Counsellor Niklausse consult about the affairs of the town |
CHAPTER
III. In which the Commissary Passauf enters as noisily as unexpectedly |
CHAPTER
IV. In which Doctor Ox reveals himself as a physiologist of the first rank, and as an audacious experimentalist |
CHAPTER
V. In which the burgomaster and the counsellor pay a visit to Doctor Ox, and what follows |
CHAPTER
VI. In which Frantz Niklausse and Suzel Van Tricasse form certain projects for the future |
CHAPTER
VII. In which the Andantes become Allegros, and the Allegros Vivaces |
CHAPTER
VIII. In which the ancient and solemn German waltz becomes a whirlwind |
CHAPTER
IX. In which Doctor Ox and Ygène, his assistant, say a few words |
CHAPTER
X. In which it will be seen that the epidemic invades the entire town, and what effect it produces |
CHAPTER
XI. In which the Quiquendonians adopt a heroic resolution |
CHAPTER
XII. In which Ygène, the assistant, gives a reasonable piece of advice, which is eagerly rejected by Doctor Ox |
CHAPTER
XIII. In which it is once more proved that by taking high ground all human littlenesses may be overlooked |
CHAPTER
XIV. In which matters go so far that the inhabitants of Quiquendone, the reader, and even the author, demand an immediate dénouement |
CHAPTER
XV. In which the dénouement takes place |
CHAPTER
XVI. In which the intelligent reader sees that he has guessed correctly, despite all the author's precautions |
CHAPTER
XVII. In which Doctor Ox's theory is explained |
CHAPTER
I. A winter night |
CHAPTER
II. The pride of science |
CHAPTER
III. A strange visit |
CHAPTER
IV. The Church of St. Pierre |
CHAPTER
V. The hour of death |
A DRAMA IN THE AIR |
CHAPTER
I. The black flag |
CHAPTER
II. Jean Cornbutte's project |
CHAPTER
III. A ray of hope |
CHAPTER
IV. In the passes |
CHAPTER
V. Liverpool Island |
CHAPTER
VI. The quaking of the ice |
CHAPTER
VII. Settling for the winter |
CHAPTER
VIII. Plan of the explorations |
CHAPTER
IX. The house of snow |
CHAPTER
X. Buried alive |
CHAPTER
XI. A cloud of smoke |
CHAPTER
XII. The return to the ship |
CHAPTER
XIII. The two rivals |
CHAPTER
XIV. Distress |
CHAPTER
XV. The white bears |
CHAPTER
XVI. Conclusion |
ASCENT OF MONT BLANC |
She handed her father a pipe |
The worthy Madame Brigitte Van Tricasse had now her second husband |
"I have just come from Dr. Ox's" |
"It is in the interests of science" |
"The workmen, whom we have had to choose in Quiquendone, are not very expeditious" |
The young girl took the line |
"Good-bye, Frantz," said Suzel |
Fiovaranti had been achieving a brilliant success in "Les Huguenots" |
They hustle each other to get out |
It was no longer a waltz |
It required two persons to eat a strawberry |
"To Virgamen! to Virgamen!" |
"A burgomaster's place is in the front rank" |
The two friends, arm in arm |
The whole army of Quiquendone fell to the earth |
He would raise the trap-door constructed in the floor of his workshop |
The young girl prayed |
"Thou wilt see that I have discovered the secrets of existence". |
"Father, what is the matter?" |
Then he resumed, in an ironical tone |
From morning till night discontented purchasers besieged the house |
This proud old man remained motionless |
"It is there--there!" |
"See this man,--he is Time" |
He was dead |
"Monsieur, I salute you" |
"Monsieur!" cried I, in a rage |
"He continued his observations for seven or eight hours with General Morlot" |
"The balloon became less and less inflated" |
"Zambecarri fell, and was killed!" |
The madman disappeared in space |
"Monsieur the curè," said he, "stop a moment, if you please" |
André Vasling, the mate, apprised Jean Cornbutte of the dreadful event |
A soft voice said in his ear, "Have good courage, uncle" |
André Vasling showed himself more attentive than ever |
On the 12th September the sea consisted of one solid plain |
They found themselves in a most perilous position, for an icequake had occurred |
Map in hand, he clearly explained their situation |
The caravan set out |
"Thirty-two degrees below zero!" |
Despair and determination were struggling in his rough features for the mastery |
It was Louis Cornbutte |
Penellan advanced towards the Norwegians |
Marie begged Vasling on her knees to produce the lemons, but he did not reply |
Marie rose with cries of despair, and hurried to the bed of old Jean Cornbutte |
The bear, having descended from the mast, had fallen on the two men |
The old curè received Louis Cornbutte and Marie |
View of Mont Blanc from the Brevent |
View of Bossons glacier, near the Grands-Mulets |
Passage of the Bossons Glacier |
Crevasse and bridge |
View of the "Seracs" |
View of "Seracs" |
Passage of the "Junction" |
Hut at the Grands-Mulets |
View of Mont Blanc from Grands-Mulets |
Crossing the plateau |
Summit of Mont Blanc |
Grands-Mulets:--Party descending from the hut |
CHAPTER | |
I. | THE FORWARD |
II. | AN UNEXPECTED LETTER |
III. | DR. CLAWBONNY |
IV. | THE DOG-CAPTAIN |
V. | AT SEA |
VI. | THE GREAT POLAR CURRENT |
VII. | THE ENTRANCE OF DAVIS STRAIT |
VIII. | THE TALK OF THE CREW |
IX. | ANOTHER LETTER |
X. | DANGEROUS SAILING |
XI. | THE DEVIL'S THUMB |
XII. | CAPTAIN HATTERAS |
XIII. | THE CAPTAIN'S PLANS |
XIV. | THE EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN |
XV. | THE FORWARD DRIVEN SOUTHWARD |
XVI. | THE MAGNETIC POLE |
XVII. | THE FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN |
XVIII. | THE WAY NORTHWARD |
XIX. | A WHALE IN SIGHT |
XX. | BEECHEY ISLAND |
XXI. | THE DEATH OF BELLOT |
XXII. | THE FIRST SIGNS OF MUTINY |
XXIII. | ATTACKED BY THE ICE |
XXIV. | PREPARATIONS FOR WINTERING |
XXV. | ONE OF JAMES ROSS'S FOXES |
XXVI. | THE LAST PIECE OF COAL |
XXVII. | THE GREAT COLD AT CHRISTMAS |
XXVIII. | PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE |
XXIX. | ACROSS THE ICE-FIELDS |
XXX. | THE CAIRN |
XXXI. | THE DEATH OF SIMPSON |
XXXII. | THE RETURN TO THE FORWARD |
I. | THE DOCTOR'S INVENTORY |
II. | ALTAMONT'S FIRST WORDS |
III. | SEVENTEEN DAYS OF LAND JOURNEY |
IV. | THE LAST CHARGE OF POWDER |
V. | THE SEAL AND THE BEAR |
VI. | THE PORPOISE |
VII. | A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHARTS |
VIII. | EXCURSION TO THE NORTH OF VICTORIA BAY |
IX. | COLD AND HEAT |
X. | THE PLEASURES OF WINTER-QUARTERS |
XI. | DISQUIETING TRACES |
XII. | THE ICE PRISON |
XIII. | THE MINE |
XIV. | THE POLAR SPRING |
XV. | THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE |
XVI. | NORTHERN ARCADIA |
XVII. | ALTAMONT'S REVENGE |
XVIII. | THE LAST PREPARATIONS |
XIX. | THE JOURNEY NORTHWARD |
XX. | FOOTPRINTS ON THE SNOW |
XXI. | THE OPEN SEA |
XXII. | THE APPROACH TO THE POLE |
XXIII. | THE ENGLISH FLAG |
XXIV. | POLAR COSMOGRAPHY |
XXV. | MOUNT HATTERAS |
XXVI. | RETURN TO THE SOUTH |
XXVII. | CONCLUSION |
* | "JOHNSON KNEW ALL THE SAILORS IN LIVERPOOL, AND IMMEDIATELY SET ABOUT ENGAGING A CREW" |
* | "EVERYTHING WAS ENVELOPED IN ONE OF THE ORDINARY FOGS OF THAT REGION" |
* | "THIS SPACE OF SIX FEET SQUARE CONTAINED INCALCULABLE WEALTH" |
* | "THE NEWS SPEAD IMMEDIATELY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND A GREAT CONCOURSE OF SPECTATORS THRONGED THE PIERS" |
* | "TOWARDS EVENING THE BRIG DOUBLED THE CALF OF MAN" |
* | "WOULD ONE NOT SAY IT WAS A FOREIGN CITY, AN EASTERN CITY, WITH MINARETS AND MOSQUES IN THE MOONLIGHT" |
* | "FORTUNATELY THE OPENING OF THESE HUTS WAS TOO SMALL, AND THE ENTHUSIASTIC DOCTOR COULD NOT GET THROUGH" |
* | "A STRANGE ANIMAL WAS BOUNDING ALONG WITHIN A CABLE'S LENGTH FROM THE SHIP" |
* | "JOHN HATTERAS" |
* | "HE CAUGHT A LARGE NUMBER OF WHITE FOXES; HE HAD PUT ON THEIR NECKS COPPER COLLARS" |
* | "ALL THESE POOR FELLOWS HAD DIED OF MISERY, SUFFERING, AND STARVATION" |
* | "THE BRIG WAS TOSSED ABOUT LIKE A CHILD'S TOY" (Frontispiece) |
* | "THE WHALE SWAM AWAY FROM THE BRIG AND HASTENED TOWARDS THE MOVING ICEBERGS" |
* | "THE FORWARD IN WELLINGTON CHANNEL" |
* | HATTERAS MADE USE OF A DEVICE WHICH WHALERS EMPLOY |
* | "A CRASH WAS HEARD, AND AS IT CAME AGAINST THE STARBOARD-QUARTER, PART OF THE RAIL HAD GIVEN WAY" |
* | "THE MOON SHONE WITH INCOMPARABLE PURITY, GLISTENING ON THE LEAST ROUGHNESS IN THE ICE" |
* | "ALMOST EVERY NIGHT THE DOCTOR COULD OBSERVE THE MAGNIFICENT AURORAS" |
* | "HE WAS ARMED, AND HE KEPT CONSTANT GUARD, WITHOUT MINDING THE COLD, THE SNOW, OR THE ICE" |
* | "THE LITTLE BAND MADE THEIR WAY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST" |
* | "THE DOCTOR HAD ENERGY ENOUGH TO ASCEND AN ICE-MOUNTAIN WHILE THE SNOW-HUT WAS BUILDING" |
* | "'FIRE!' SHOUTED THE CAPTAIN, DISCHARGING HIS PIECE" |
* | "THEY COULD ONLY THINK OF THEIR PERILOUS POSITION" |
* | "SUDDENLY, WITH A LAST EFFORT, HE HALF ROSE" |
* | "THEN A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD" |
* | "THE LARGE PIECES OF THE ENGINE LAY HERE AND THERE, TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE" |
* | "THEY HARNESSED THE TIRED DOGS" |
* | JOHNSON'S STORY |
* | "'YES!' SAID THE AMERICAN" |
* | "THE DOCTOR WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FIND A SEAL" |
* | "AT THE END OF TWO HOURS THEY FELL, EXHAUSTED" |
* | "HE PLUNGED HIS KNIFE INTO THE BEAST'S THROAT" |
* | "THESE CASTAWAYS LOOKED AT THEMSELVES AS COLONISTS WHO HAD REACHED THEIR DESTINATION" |
* | THE FORT WAS COMPLETED |
* | "I AM NOT AWARE THAT IT BEARS ANY NAME ON THE MOST RECENT MAPS" |
* | "THE DOCTOR REACHED THE SUMMIT WITH SOME LITTLE DIFFICULTY" |
* | "THEY ADVANCED IN FULL ILLUMINATION, AND THEIR SHARPLY CUT SHADOWS RAN OUT BEHIND THEM OVER THE SNOW" |
* | "HE DID HIS BEST TO INSTRUCT AND INTEREST HIS COMPANIONS" |
* | "HATTERAS COULD ONLY KEEP HIS DISTANCE FROM THE ANIMALS BY THROWING AWAY HIS CAP, HATCHET, AND EVEN HIS GUN" |
* | "THE BEARS HEAPED THE ICE IN SUCH A WAY AS TO RENDER FLIGHT IMPOSSIBLE" |
* | "AN ENORMOUS BLACK BODY APPEARED IN THE GLOOM OF THE ROOM. ALTAMONT RAISED HIS HAND TO STRIKE IT" |
* | "A LOUD EXPLOSION FOLLOWED" |
* | "THE CARPENTER SET TO WORK AT ONCE" |
* | "A HARD STRUGGLE WITH THE ICEBERGS" |
* | "MACCLURE SAW A MAN RUNNING AND GESTICULATING" |
* | "THE DOCTOR, JOHNSON, AND BELL INTERVENED. IT WAS TIME; THE TWO ENEMIES WERE GAZING AT ONE ANOTHER" |
* | "THEY WERE A CURIOUS AND TOUCHING SIGHT, FLYING ABOUT WITHOUT FEAR, RESTING ON CLAWBONNY'S SHOULDERS," ETC. |
* | "GAVE HIM A TERRIBLE BLOW WITH A HATCHET ON THE HEAD" |
* | "WELL, I'VE BROUGHT BACK TWO BROTHERS" |
* | "THE SEAL STRUGGLED FOR A FEW SECONDS, AND WAS THEN SUFFOCATED ON THE BREAST OF HIS ADVERSARY" |
* | "THEY LEFT AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING" |
* | "ON THE 29TH BELL SHOT A FOX, AND ALTAMONT A MEDIUM-SIZED MUSK-OX" |
* | "THE MASSES OF ICE TOOK THE FORMS OF HUMMOCKS AND ICEBERGS" |
* | "ON ALL SIDES RESOUNDED THE CRACKING OF THE ICE AMID THE ROAR OF THE AVALANCHES" |
* | "'WE OUGHT,' ANSWERED BELL, 'TO LIGHT TORCHES, AS IS DONE AT LONDON AND LIVERPOOL'" |
* | THE HUT WAS PITCHED IN A RAVINE FOR SHELTER |
* | "THEY CLIMBED A HILL WHICH COMMANDED A WIDE VIEW" |
* | "THREE HOURS LATER THEY REACHED THE COAST. 'THE SEA! THE SEA!' THEY ALL SHOUTED" |
* | "THE LAUNCH WAS ROCKING GENTLY IN HER LITTLE HARBOR" |
* | "AQUATIC BIRDS OF ALL SORTS WERE THERE" |
* | "THEN THE EYE GLANCING DOWN INTO THE TRANSPARENT WATER, THE SIGHT WAS EQUALLY STRANGE" |
* | "'IT'S A VOLCANO!' HE CRIED" |
* | "THE LAUNCH TOSSED HELPLESSLY ABOUT" |
* | "THE FOG, WITHOUT LIFTING, WAS VERY BRIGHT" |
* | "THIS DRIFTING FLOE WAS COVERED WITH WHITE BEARS, CROWDED TOGETHER" |
* | "HER SAIL FLEW AWAY LIKE A HUGE WHITE BIRD; A WHIRLPOOL, A NEW MAELSTROM, FORMED AMONG THE WAVES" |
* | "THE MOUNTAIN WAS IN FULL ERUPTION" |
* | "THEY NOTICED A LITTLE FIORD" |
* | "ALTAMONT SOON FOUND A GROTTO IN THE ROCKS" |
* | "THEY WERE ALL READY TO LISTEN TO THE DOCTOR" |
* | "THEY SAW THE CAPTAIN STANDING ON A ROCK" |
* | "HATTERAS APPEARED TO WAKE FROM HIS REVERY" |
* | "BUT HATTERAS DID NOT LOOK BACK. HE HAD MADE USE OF HIS STAFF AS A POLE ON WHICH TO FASTEN THE ENGLISH FLAG" |
* | "THE DOCTOR PUT UP A CAIRN" |
* | "DEAD—FROZEN" |
* | "TWO HOURS LATER, AFTER UNHEARD-OF EFFORTS, THE LAST MEN OF THE FORWARD WERE TAKEN ABOARD THE DANISH WHALER HANS CHRISTIAN" |
* | "A STEAMBOAT CARRIED THEM TO KIEL" |
PAGE | |
CHAPTER I | |
Conversation on the Subject of the Bullet—Construction of a Canoe—Hunting—At the Top of a Kauri—Nothing to attest the Presence of Man—Neb and Herbert's Prize—Turning a Turtle—The Turtle disappears—Cyrus Harding's Explanation | 1 |
CHAPTER II | |
First Trial of the Canoe—A Wreck on the Coast—Towing—Flotsam Point—Inventory of the Case: Tools, Weapons, Instruments, Clothes, Books, Utensils—What Pencroft misses—The Gospel—A Verse from the Sacred Book | 11 |
CHAPTER III | |
The Start—The rising Tide—Elms and different Plants—The Jacamar—Aspect of the Forest—Gigantic Eucalypti—The Reason they are called "Fever Trees"—Troops of Monkeys—A Waterfall—The Night Encampment | 23 |
CHAPTER IV | |
Journey to the Coast—Troops of Monkeys—A new River—The Reason the Tide was not felt—A woody Shore—ReptilePromontory—Herbert envies Gideon Spilett—Explosion of Bamboos | 34 |
CHAPTER V | |
Proposal to return by the Southern Shore—Configuration of the Coast—Searching for the supposed Wreck—A Wreck in the Air—Discovery of a small Natural Port—At Midnight on the Banks of the Mercy—The Canoe Adrift | 45 |
CHAPTER VI[Pg x] | |
Pencroft's Halloos—A Night in the Chimneys—Herbert's Arrows—The Captain's Project—An unexpected Explanation—What has happened in Granite House—How a new Servant enters the Service of the Colonists | 58 |
CHAPTER VII | |
Plans—A Bridge over the Mercy—Mode adopted for making an Island of Prospect Heights—The Drawbridge—Harvest—The Stream—The Poultry-yard—A Pigeon-house—The two Onagas—The Cart—Excursion to Port Balloon | 70 |
CHAPTER VIII | |
Linen—Shoes of Seal-leather—Manufacture of Pyroxyle—Gardening —Fishing—Turtle-eggs—Improvement of Master Jup—The Corral—Musmon Hunt—New Animal and Vegetable Possessions—Recollections of their Native Land | 81 |
CHAPTER IX | |
Bad Weather—The Hydraulic Lift—Manufacture of Glass-ware—The Bread-tree—Frequent Visits to the Corral—Increase of the Flock—The Reporter's Question—Exact Position of Lincoln Island—Pencroft's Proposal | 92 |
CHAPTER X | |
Boat-building—Second Crop of Corn—Hunting Koalas—A new Plant, more Pleasant than Useful—Whale in Sight—A Harpoon from the Vineyard—Cutting up the Whale—Use for the Bones—End of the Month of May—Pencroft has nothing left to wish for | 103 |
CHAPTER XI | |
Winter—Felling Wood—The Mill—Pencroft's fixed Idea—The Bones—To what Use an Albatross may be put—Fuel for the Future—Top and Jup—Storms—Damage to the Poultry-yard—Excursion to the Marsh—Cyrus Harding alone—Exploring the Well | 114 |
CHAPTER XII[Pg xi] | |
The Rigging of the Vessel—An Attack from Foxes—Jup wounded—Jup cured—Completion of the Boat—Pencroft's Triumph—The Bonadventure's trial Trip to the South of the Island—An unexpected Document | 127 |
CHAPTER XIII | |
Departure decided upon—Conjectures—Preparations—The three Passengers—First Night—Second Night—Tabor Island—Searching the Shore—Searching the Wood—No one—Animals—Plants—A Dwelling—Deserted | 142 |
CHAPTER XIV | |
The Inventory—Night—A few Letters—Continuation of the Search—Plants and Animals—Herbert in great Danger—On Board—The Departure—Bad Weather—A Gleam of Reason—Lost on the Sea—A timely Light | 154 |
CHAPTER XV | |
The Return—Discussion—Cyrus Harding and the Stranger—Port Balloon—The Engineer's Devotion—A touching Incident—Tears flow | 166 |
CHAPTER XVI | |
A Mystery to be cleared up—The Stranger's first Words—Twelve Years on the Islet—Avowal which escapes him—The Disappearance—Cyrus Harding's Confidence—Construction of a Mill—The first Bread—An Act of Devotion—Honest Hands | 176 |
CHAPTER XVII | |
Still alone—The Stranger's Request—The Farm established at the Corral—Twelve Years ago—The Boatswain's Mate of the Britannia—Left on Tabor Island—Cyrus Harding's Hand—The mysterious Document | 191 |
CHAPTER XVIII[Pg xii] | |
Conversation—Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett—An Idea of the Engineer's—The Electric Telegraph—The Wires—The Battery—The Alphabet—Fine Season—Prosperity of the Colony—Photography—An Appearance of Snow—Two Years on Lincoln Island | 203 |
CHAPTER XIX | |
Recollections of their Native Land—Probable Future—Project for surveying the Coasts of the Island—Departure on the 16th of April—Sea-view of Reptile End—The basaltic Rocks of the Western Coast—Bad Weather—Night comes on—New Incident | 216 |
CHAPTER XX | |
A Night at Sea—Shark Gulf—Confidences—Preparations for Winter—Forwardness of the Bad Season—Severe Cold—Work in the Interior—In Six Months—A Photographic Negative—Unexpected Incident | 226 |
TURNING A TURTLE | 9 |
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM | 15 |
UNPACKING THE MARVELLOUS CHEST | 17 |
PENCROFT'S SUPERSTITION | 21 |
IS IT TOBACCO? | 27 |
THE HALT FOR BREAKFAST | 29 |
DENIZENS OF THE FOREST | 37 |
THE SEA | 39 |
AT THAT MOMENT A SHOT STRUCK THE JAGUAR BETWEEN THE EYES AND IT FELL DEAD | 43 |
"NOW THERE'S SOMETHING TO EXPLAIN THE BULLET!" EXCLAIMED PENCROFT | 51 |
A WRECK IN THE AIR | 53 |
THERE WAS NO LONGER A LADDER! | 57 |
THE INVADERS OF GRANITE HOUSE | 63 |
CAPTURING THE ORANG | 67 |
ENGAGING THE NEW SERVANT | 69 |
BUILDING THE BRIDGE | 73 |
PENCROFT'S SCARECROWS | 77 |
THE SETTLERS' NEW SHIRTS | 83 |
JUP PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME IN THE KITCHEN, TRYING TO IMITATE NEB | 87 |
PENCROFT TO THE RESCUE | 93 |
THE GLASS-BLOWERS | 97 |
THE VERANDAH ON THE EDGE OF PROSPECT HEIGHTS | 101 |
THE DOCKYARD | 105 |
A VALUABLE PRIZE | 109 |
PENCROFT HAS NOTHING LEFT TO WISH FOR | 113 |
THE MESSENGER | 119 |
WINTER EVENINGS IN GRANITE HOUSE | 121 |
HE SAW NOTHING SUSPICIOUS | 125 |
TOP VISITING THE INVALID | 133 |
THE TRIAL TRIP | 137[Pg xiv] |
"LUFF, PENCROFT, LUFF!" | 141 |
THE DEPARTURE | 145 |
NEARING THE ISLAND | 149 |
A HUT! | 153 |
HERBERT IN DANGER | 159 |
A LIGHT! A LIGHT! | 165 |
"POOR FELLOW," MURMURED THE ENGINEER | 169 |
THE EXPERIMENT | 175 |
"WHO ARE YOU?" HE ASKED IN A HOLLOW VOICE | 177 |
THE STRANGER | 179 |
NOW FOR A GOOD WIND | 187 |
HE SEIZED THE JAGUAR'S THROAT WITH ONE POWERFUL HAND | 189 |
THE STRANGER'S STORY | 195 |
"HERE IS MY HAND," SAID THE ENGINEER | 201 |
THE ENGINEER AT WORK | 209 |
JUP SITTING FOR HIS PORTRAIT | 213 |
THE SNOWY SHEET AROSE AND DISPERSED IN THE AIR | 215 |
ANOTHER MYSTERY | 225 |
RETURNING FROM A SPORTING EXCURSION | 233 |
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE | 235 |
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. | ||
ROUND THE MOON. | ||
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | ||
CHAPTER I. | THE GUN CLUB | |
CHAPTER II. | PRESIDENT BARBICANE'S COMMUNICATION | |
CHAPTER III. | EFFECT OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMUNICATION | |
CHAPTER IV. | REPLY FROM THE OBSERVATORY OF CAMBRIDGE | |
CHAPTER V. | THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON | |
CHAPTER VI. | THE PERMISSIVE LIMITS OF IGNORANCE AND BELIEF IN THE UNITED STATES | |
CHAPTER VII. | THE HYMN OF THE CANNON-BALL | |
CHAPTER VIII. | HISTORY OF THE CANNON | |
CHAPTER IX. | THE QUESTION OF THE POWDERS | |
CHAPTER X. | ONE ENEMY v. TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF FRIENDS | |
CHAPTER XI. | FLORIDA AND TEXAS | |
CHAPTER XII. | URBI ET ORBI | |
CHAPTER XIII. | STONES HILL | |
CHAPTER XIV. | PICKAXE AND TROWEL | |
CHAPTER XV. | THE FÃSTE OF THE CASTING | |
CHAPTER XVI. | THE COLUMBIAD | |
CHAPTER XVII. | A TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH | |
CHAPTER XVIII. | THE PASSENGER OF THE "ATLANTA" | |
CHAPTER XIX. | A MONSTER MEETING | |
CHAPTER XX. | ATTACK AND RIPOSTE | |
CHAPTER XXI. | HOW A FRENCHMAN MANAGES AN AFFAIR | |
CHAPTER XXII. | THE NEW CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES | |
CHAPTER XXIII. | THE PROJECTILE-VEHICLE | |
CHAPTER XXIV. | THE TELESCOPE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | |
CHAPTER XXV. | FINAL DETAILS | |
CHAPTER XXVI. | FIRE! | |
CHAPTER XXVII. | FOUL WEATHER | |
CHAPTER XXVIII. | A NEW STAR | |
ROUND THE MOON | ||
PRELIMINARY CHAPTER | ||
CHAPTER I. | FROM TWENTY MINUTES PAST TEN TO FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES PAST TEN P.M. | |
CHAPTER II. | THE FIRST HALF-HOUR | |
CHAPTER III. | THEIR PLACE OF SHELTER | |
CHAPTER IV. | A LITTLE ALGEBRA | |
CHAPTER V. | THE COLD OF SPACE | |
CHAPTER VI. | QUESTION AND ANSWER | |
CHAPTER VII. | A MOMENT OF INTOXICATION | |
CHAPTER VIII. | AT SEVENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN LEAGUES | |
CHAPTER IX. | THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DEVIATION | |
CHAPTER X. | THE OBSERVERS OF THE MOON | |
CHAPTER XI. | FANCY AND REALITY | |
CHAPTER XII. | OROGRAPHIC DETAILS | |
CHAPTER XIII. | LUNAR LANDSCAPES | |
CHAPTER XIV. | THE NIGHT OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR HOURS AND A HALF | |
CHAPTER XV. | HYPERBOLA OR PARABOLA | |
CHAPTER XVI. | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE | |
CHAPTER XVII. | TYCHO | |
CHAPTER XVIII. | GRAVE QUESTIONS | |
CHAPTER XIX. | A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE | |
CHAPTER XX. | THE SOUNDINGS OF THE "SUSQUEHANNA" | |
CHAPTER XXI. | J. T. MASTON RECALLED | |
CHAPTER XXII. | RECOVERED FROM THE SEA | |
CHAPTER XXIII. | THE END |
The Artillery-men of the Gun Club |
President Barbicane |
Meeting of the Gun Club |
The Torchlight Procession |
Cambridge Observatory |
The Moon's Disc |
Barbicane holds forth |
The Rodman Columbiad |
Cannon at Malta in the time of the Knights |
Ideal Sketch of J. T. Maston's Gun |
The invention of Gunpowder by the Monk Schwartz |
Captain Nicholl |
Nicholl published a number of Letters in the Newspapers |
It became necessary to keep an eye upon the Deputies |
The Subscription was opened |
The Manufactory at Coldspring, near New York |
Tampa Town, previous to the undertaking |
They were compelled to ford several Rivers |
The Work progressed regularly |
The Casting |
Tampa Town, after the undertaking |
The Banquet in the Columbiad |
President Barbicane at his Window |
Michel Ardan |
The Meeting |
Projectile Trains for the Moon |
Attack and Riposte |
The Platform was suddenly carried away |
Maston burst into the Room |
In the midst of this Snare was a poor little Bird |
"Go with me, and see whether we are stopped on our journey" |
The Cat taken out of the Shell |
The Arrival of the Projectile at Stones Hill |
J. T. Maston had grown fat |
The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains |
The Interior of the Projectile |
An innumerable Multitude covered the Prairie round Stones Hill |
Fire!! |
Effect of the Explosion |
The Director at his Post |
The Gas caught fire |
Diana and Satellite |
The courageous Frenchman |
They raised Barbicane |
It was an enormous Disc |
They gave her a pie |
The Sun chose to be of the party |
Ardan plunged his hand rapidly into certain mysterious boxes |
"Do I understand it?" cried Ardan; "my head is splitting with it". |
Satellite was thrown out |
It was the Body of Satellite |
"I could have ventured out on the top of the Projectile" |
They struck up a frantic dance |
"The Oxygen!" he exclaimed |
"Ah! if Raphael had seen us thus" |
The Telescope at Parsonstown |
How many people have heard speak of the Moon! |
"This plain would then be nothing but an immense Cemetery" |
"What Giant Oxen!" |
He could distinguish nothing but Desert Beds |
"It is the fault of the Moon" |
Nothing could equal the splendour of this starry world |
"The vapour of our breath will fall in snow around us" |
A Discussion arose |
A Prey to frightful Terror |
What a sight! |
"The Sun!" |
"Light and Heat; all Life is contained in them" |
He distinguished all this |
Can you picture to yourselves |
A violent Contraction of the Lunar Crust |
Around the Projectile were the Objects which had been thrown out |
"These practical people have sometimes most inopportune ideas" |
Ardan applied the lighted Match |
"I fancy I see them" |
A few feet nearer |
The unfortunate man had disappeared |
The Descent began |
"White all, Barbicane" |
The Apotheosis was worthy of the three Heroes |