...As to what they were, Europeans or Malays, enemies orfriends of our race, we cannot possibly guess; and if they still inhabitthe island, or if they have left it, we know not...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...In no place, either in the depths of the forest or underthe trees on the banks of the Mercy, was the...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...But soon the flow completely failed them either the tide was going down,and it was about the hour, or it could no longer be felt at thisdistance from the mouth of the Mercy...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... with their leaves placed vertically and not horizontally...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Hecalculated that they were still five or six miles from the coast, andthis distance was too great for them to attempt traversing during thenight in the midst of unknown woods...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Strange or not, it was very fortunate...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... for in some way or other...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...And the engineer said this in such a peculiar voice that it wasdifficult to know whether he spoke seriously or not...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...But did there not exist in the island some animal which might supply theplace of the horse, ass, or ox? That was the question...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...What wood should be employed? Elm or fir, both of which abounded in theisland? They decided for the fir, as being easy to work, but whichstands water as well as the elm...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...They could also see it throwing up from its air-holes to a great height,a cloud of vapour, or of water, for, strange as it may appear,naturalists and whalers are not agreed on...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...The sailor endeavoured to speak, but could not get out a word, so,seizing the pipe, he carried it to his lips, then applying the coal, hedrew five or six great whiffs...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...Theroughnesses with which the staple of wool is naturally filled were sothoroughly entangled and interlaced together that a material was formedequally suitable either for garments or bedclothes...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
... or to this lad...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...During the month of July the cold was intense, but there was no lack ofeither wood or coal...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."Living or dead...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...They were in aframe of mind to imagine anything or expect anything...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
..."Are you quite sure that this is a man, or that he has ever been one?"said Pencroft to the reporter...
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
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