VERNANIA: The Celebrated Works of Jules Verne in One Edition. Жюль Верн

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СКАЧАТЬ tpwgln, a hole; dnw, to creep into. The name of an Ethiopian tribe who lived in caves and holes. ??????, a hole, and ???, to creep into.

      [11] One hundred and twenty. (Trans.)

      [12] These animals belonged to a late geological period, the Pliocene, just before the glacial epoch, and therefore could have no connection with the carboniferous vegetation. (Trans.)

      [13] This distance carries the travellers as far as under the Pyrenees if the league measures three miles. (Trans.)

      [14] Rather of the mammoth and the mastodon. (Trans.)

      [15] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore the latter cannot be a representative of the former. (Trans.)

      [16] The facial angle is formed by two lines, one touching the brow and the front teeth, the other from the orifice of the ear to the lower line of the nostrils. The greater this angle, the higher intelligence denoted by the formation of the skull. Prognathism is that projection of the jawbones which sharpens or lessons this angle, and which is illustrated in the negro countenance and in the lowest savages.

      [17] “The shepherd of gigantic herds, and huger still himself.”

The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras - 1864

       Main TOC

Contents

        CHAPTER I

        CHAPTER II

        CHAPTER III

        CHAPTER IV

        CHAPTER V

        CHAPTER VI

        CHAPTER VII

        CHAPTER VIII

        CHAPTER IX

        CHAPTER X

        CHAPTER XI

        CHAPTER XII

        CHAPTER XIII

        CHAPTER XIV

        CHAPTER XV

        CHAPTER XVI

        CHAPTER XVII

        CHAPTER XVIII

        CHAPTER XIX

        CHAPTER XX

        CHAPTER XXI

        CHAPTER XXII

        CHAPTER XXIII

        CHAPTER XXIV

        CHAPTER XXV

        CHAPTER XXVI

        CHAPTER XXVII

        CHAPTER XXVIII

        CHAPTER XXIX

        CHAPTER XXX

        CHAPTER XXXI

        CHAPTER XXXII

CHAPTER I

      THE “FORWARD”

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      “Tomorrow, at low tide, the brig Forward, Captain K. Z–-, Richard Shandon mate, will start from New Prince’s Docks for an unknown destination.”

      The foregoing might have been read in the Liverpool Herald of April 5th, 1860. The departure of a brig is an event of little importance for the most commercial port in England. Who would notice it in the midst of vessels of all sorts of tonnage and nationality that six miles of docks can hardly contain? However, from daybreak on the 6th of April a considerable crowd covered the wharfs of New Prince’s Docks—the innumerable companies of sailors of the town seemed to have met there. Workmen from the neighbouring wharfs had left their work, merchants their dark counting-houses, tradesmen their shops. The different-coloured omnibuses that ran along the exterior wall of the docks brought cargoes of spectators at every moment; СКАЧАТЬ