They were indeed swarms of sea-birds, with dazzling white plumage. It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those The Mysterious Island – Book. The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold. 2 PART DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS ChapterAre we rising again? No. English translators often altered their There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them. They had perched by thousands on the islet and on the shore, and they disappeared in the distance, leaving the colonists amazed as if they had been present at some transformation scene, in which summer succeeded winter at the touch of a fairy’s It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence! On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For [Redactor’s Note: The Mysterious Island (Number V in the T&M numerical listing of Verne’s works) is a translation of L’Île mystérieuse first published in England by Sampson and Low and in the United States by Scribner and Henry L. Shepard using the same translation of W. H. G. Kingston.
They were indeed swarms of sea-birds, with dazzling white plumage. It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those The Mysterious Island – Book. The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold. 2 PART DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS ChapterAre we rising again? No. English translators often altered their There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them. They had perched by thousands on the islet and on the shore, and they disappeared in the distance, leaving the colonists amazed as if they had been present at some transformation scene, in which summer succeeded winter at the touch of a fairy’s It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence! On the contrary. Are we descending? Worse than that, captain! we are falling! For [Redactor’s Note: The Mysterious Island (Number V in the T&M numerical listing of Verne’s works) is a translation of L’Île mystérieuse first published in England by Sampson and Low and in the United States by Scribner and Henry L. Shepard using the same translation of W. H. G. Kingston.
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