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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Chapter 4 THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION

Word Count: 1267    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

ng out of her kitchen at the nois

lied, "compl

ut his dinner?" sa

n't ha

his s

n't ha

Martha, with

o eat anything at all. Uncle Liedenbrock is going to make us all f

ust we then all

with so absolute a ruler as my

moved, returned to the ki

e Professor might return at any moment. And suppose he called me? And suppose he tackled me again with this logomachy, whic

siliceous nodules, which I had to classify: so I set to work; I sorted, labelled, and arranged in their

ent kept working in my brain. My head throbbed with excitement, and I felt

mused myself watching the process of the conversion of the tobacco into carbon, which was by slow degrees making my naiad into a negress. Now and then I listened to hear whether a well-known step was on the stairs. No. Where could my uncle be at that m

king myself questions, and mechanically taking between my fingers the sheet of paper mysteriously disfigured wit

f it but nonsense. To be sure the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth letters made the English word 'ice'; the eighty-third and two following

the fourth line appeared the word "luco", which means a sacred wood. It is true that in the third line was

ea of ice; but it was quite another thing to get to the end of this cryptogram with so small a clue. So I was struggling with an insurmountable difficulty; my brain got heated, my eyes watered over that sheet of paper; its hundred and thirty-two letters seemed to flutter and fly around me like those motes of mingled light and darkness which float in the air around the head when the blood is rushing

rough the paper. Such as it was, just such as it had been dictated to me, so it might be spelt out with ease. All those ingenious professorial combinations were coming right. He was right as to the

, I could scarcely see. I had laid the paper upon t

k twice round the room quietly and settle my nerves, and

ed, after having well dis

upon every letter; and without a pause, without one m

deadly blow. What! that which I read had actually, really be

want to know all about it. Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is! He would start, he would,

ent was beyond

ent the knowledge of it coming into the mind of my tyrant, I will do it. By dint of tu

parchment; with a feverish hand I was about to fling it all upon the coals and utterly de

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1 Chapter 1 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY2 Chapter 2 A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE3 Chapter 3 THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR4 Chapter 4 THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION5 Chapter 5 FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY6 Chapter 6 EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISE7 Chapter 7 A WOMAN'S COURAGE8 Chapter 8 SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT9 Chapter 9 ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT 10 Chapter 10 INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS11 Chapter 11 A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH12 Chapter 12 A BARREN LAND13 Chapter 13 HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE14 Chapter 14 BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO15 Chapter 15 SN FELL AT LAST16 Chapter 16 BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER17 Chapter 17 VERTICAL DESCENT18 Chapter 18 THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS19 Chapter 19 GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU20 Chapter 20 THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS21 Chapter 21 COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR'S HEART22 Chapter 22 TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER23 Chapter 23 WATER DISCOVERED24 Chapter 24 WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I' THE GROUND SO FAST 25 Chapter 25 DE PROFUNDIS26 Chapter 26 THE WORST PERIL OF ALL27 Chapter 27 LOST IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH28 Chapter 28 THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING GALLERY29 Chapter 29 THALATTA! THALATTA!30 Chapter 30 A NEW MARE INTERNUM31 Chapter 31 PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY32 Chapter 32 WONDERS OF THE DEEP33 Chapter 33 A BATTLE OF MONSTERS34 Chapter 34 THE GREAT GEYSER35 Chapter 35 AN ELECTRIC STORM36 Chapter 36 CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS37 Chapter 37 THE LIEDENBROCK MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY38 Chapter 38 THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN39 Chapter 39 FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELECTRICITY40 Chapter 40 PREPARATIONS FOR BLASTING A PASSAGE TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH41 Chapter 41 THE GREAT EXPLOSION AND THE RUSH DOWN BELOW42 Chapter 42 HEADLONG SPEED UPWARD THROUGH THE HORRORS OF DARKNESS43 Chapter 43 SHOT OUT OF A VOLCANO AT LAST!44 Chapter 44 SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN45 Chapter 45 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL