A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
I shook my head. That dagger had never been in the possession of the pacific and taciturn Hans. I knew ...
"But what man has been sufficiently desperate to do such a thing?" "A man who has somewhere written his ...
CHAPTER 38 NO OUTLET—BLASTING THE ROCK Ever since the commencement of our marvelous journey, I had experienced ...
same spot, upon the central granite stone of this wondrous work of the Creator. But in justice to your ...
wandering at the mercy of wind and waves towards the south: we have come back exactly north; and what is ...
I jumped on shore first. In my present state of excitement and enthusiasm, I was always first. My uncle and th ...
up and down. He was evidently desperate. "But," I cried, after some moments' thought, "what about Arne ...
ordinary tools." "What then?" "What else but gunpowder, a subterranean mine? Let us blow up the obstacle ...
CHAPTER 39 THE EXPLOSION AND ITS RESULTS The next day, which was the twenty-seventh of August, was a date cele ...
soon as you can. I shall be all impatience." "Be easy on that matter," I replied, "there is no fea ...
but to the raft itself. I thought it was going bodily down a tremendous well. I tried to speak, to questi ...
right in that part of my conjecture. The insufficient light did not allow us to see both of the walls ...
This discovery was a prelude to a certain and horrible death. Seated gloomily on the raft, clasping the s ...
us not even the faintest glimpse of hope. It left to the imagination nothing but blank horror, without the fain ...
CHAPTER 40 THE APE GIGANS It is difficult for me to determine what was the real time, but I should suppose, ...
me; my limbs trembled violently; I almost lost my senses. And still the mighty monster advanced. My uncle a ...
What was the fate of my unhappy companions? It was impossible for me to pause to inquire. My own wretched e ...
which reared upwards and fell with all its weight upon its adversary. A terrible combat, the details of which ...
Hans, the guide, after many vain efforts, at last succeeded in lighting it, and the flame, having now ...
tell him the truth. Still I hesitated. "Eat," I said, in a deprecating tone as if there were no hurry. ...
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