A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

.......... "Lost!" .......... "And your lamp?" .......... "Out." .......... "But the guiding stream?" .......... "Is lo ...

leaned my head against the wall, which I almost touched with my lips, and again spoke. "Uncle." .......... "My ...

"Yes." .......... "Well, make ready, I am about to pronounce your name," said the Professor. I applied my ...

"Farewell for the present, good uncle, I am about to take my departure. As soon as I start, our voice ...

projecting asperities of a vertical gallery, a perfect well. My head bounded against a pointed rock, ...

CHAPTER 26 A RAPID RECOVERY When I returned to the consciousness of existence, I found myself surrounded ...

I was, if the truth were told, very weak indeed, and my eyes soon closed involuntarily. I did requi ...

"You must be right, Uncle," was my reply, "for I feel as if I could do justice to any meal you could ...

"Well, my own opinion is that my head is not exactly right. In fact, I believe myself slightly delirious." ...

Go on board—what and how? Had we come upon a river, a lake, had we discovered some inland sea? Was a ...

CHAPTER 27 THE CENTRAL SEA At first I saw absolutely nothing. My eyes, wholly unused to the effulgence of light ...

was evidently electric; something in the nature of the aurora borealis, only that its phenomena were constan ...

holes in the earth to that in which I stood in speechless admiration! with its vapory clouds, its electric ...

last, becoming limpid and murmuring streams, were lost in the waters of the lake. Light vapors, which ...

Still I wished to go forward. The cold in the shades of this singular forest was intense. For nearly ...

"Here is, clearly, the lower jawbone of a mastodon," I cried, almost as warmly and enthusiastically as my u ...

round a bay formed by projections of vast granitic rocks. At the extreme end was a little port protected ...

CHAPTER 28 LAUNCHING THE RAFT On the morning of the next day, to my great surprise, I awoke completely rest ...

breaking monotonously on the beach. They were evidently rising. "This is truly the flood," I cried, look ...

"Certainly; make the experiment," said my uncle, pleased with my enthusiasm. "While we are about it, ...