FIRE! The first of December had arrived! the fatal day! for, if the projectile were not discharged that very night at 10h. 48m. 40s. P.M., more than eighteen years must roll by before the moon would a
FIRE! The first of December had arrived! the fatal day! for, if the projectile were not discharged that very night at 10h. 48m. 40s. P.M., more than eighteen years must roll by before the moon would a
THE END We may remember the intense sympathy which had accompanied the travelers on their departure. If at the beginnin…
RECOVERED FROM THE SEA The spot where the projectile sank under the waves was exactly known; but the machinery to grasp…
J. T. MASTON RECALLED “It is ‘they’ come back again!” the young midshipman had said, and every one had understood him. …
THE SOUNDINGS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA Well, lieutenant, and our soundings?” “I think, sir, that the operation is nearing it…
A STRUGGLE AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE For a long time Barbicane and his companions looked silently and sadly upon that worl…
GRAVE QUESTIONS But the projectile had passed the enceinte of Tycho, and Barbicane and his two companions watched with…
TYCHO At six in the evening the projectile passed the south pole at less than forty miles off, a distance equal to that…
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE The projectile had just escaped a terrible danger, and a very unforseen one. Who would have tho…
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