Read Ebook: The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne Jules Riou Edouard Illustrator

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PAGE "JOHNSON KNEW ALL THE SAILORS IN LIVERPOOL, AND IMMEDIATELY SET ABOUT ENGAGING A CREW" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

"EVERYTHING WAS ENVELOPED IN ONE OF THE ORDINARY FOGS OF THAT REGION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

"THE NEWS SPEAD IMMEDIATELY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND A GREAT CONCOURSE OF SPECTATORS THRONGED THE PIERS" . . . . . . . . . 27

"TOWARDS EVENING THE BRIG DOUBLED THE CALF OF MAN" . . . . . . . 29

"WOULD ONE NOT SAY IT WAS A FOREIGN CITY, AN EASTERN CITY, WITH MINARETS AND MOSQUES IN THE MOONLIGHT" . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

"FORTUNATELY THE OPENING OF THESE HUTS WAS TOO SMALL, AND THE ENTHUSIASTIC DOCTOR COULD NOT GET THROUGH" . . . . . . . . . . 71

"A STRANGE ANIMAL WAS BOUNDING ALONG WITHIN A CABLE'S LENGTH FROM THE SHIP" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

"JOHN HATTERAS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

"HE CAUGHT A LARGE NUMBER OF WHITE FOXES; HE HAD PUT ON THEIR NECKS COPPER COLLARS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

"ALL THESE POOR FELLOWS HAD DIED OF MISERY, SUFFERING, AND STARVATION" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

"THE BRIG WAS TOSSED ABOUT LIKE A CHILD'S TOY" . 134

"THE WHALE SWAM AWAY FROM THE BRIG AND HASTENED TOWARDS THE MOVING ICEBERGS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

"THE FORWARD IN WELLINGTON CHANNEL" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

HATTERAS MADE USE OF A DEVICE WHICH WHALERS EMPLOY . . . . . . . 153

"A CRASH WAS HEARD, AND AS IT CAME AGAINST THE STARBOARD-QUARTER, PART OF THE RAIL HAD GIVEN WAY" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

"THE MOON SHONE WITH INCOMPARABLE PURITY, GLISTENING ON THE LEAST ROUGHNESS IN THE ICE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

"ALMOST EVERY NIGHT THE DOCTOR COULD OBSERVE THE MAGNIFICENT AURORAS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

"HE WAS ARMED, AND HE KEPT CONSTANT GUARD, WITHOUT MINDING THE COLD, THE SNOW, OR THE ICE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

"THE LITTLE BAND MADE THEIR WAY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST" . . . . . 202

"THE DOCTOR HAD ENERGY ENOUGH TO ASCEND AN ICE-MOUNTAIN WHILE THE SNOW-HUT WAS BUILDING" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

"'FIRE!' SHOUTED THE CAPTAIN, DISCHARGING HIS PIECE" . . . . . . 211

"THEY COULD ONLY THINK OF THEIR PERILOUS POSITION" . . . . . . . 218

"SUDDENLY, WITH A LAST EFFORT, HE HALF ROSE" . . . . . . . . . . 223

"THEN A TERRIBLE EXPLOSION WAS HEARD" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

"THE LARGE PIECES OF THE ENGINE LAY HERE AND THERE, TWISTED OUT OF SHAPE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

"THEY HARNESSED THE TIRED DOGS" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

JOHNSON'S STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

"'YES!' SAID THE AMERICAN" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

"THE DOCTOR WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO FIND A SEAL" . . . . . . . . 258