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Title: An Antarctic Mystery
Author: Jules Verne
Translator: Mrs. Cashel Hoey
Posting Date: January 25, 2009 [EBook #10339]
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY ***
Produced by Norman Wolcott. Text versions by Al Haines.
[Redactor's Note: _An Antarctic Mystery_ (Number V046 in the T&M
numerical listing of Verne's works, is a translation of _Le Sphinx
de Glaces_ (1897) translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey who also translated
other Verne works.]
AN
ANTARCTIC MYSTERY
BY
JULES VERNE
TRANSLATED BY MRS. CASHEL HOEY
ILLUSTRATED
1899
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The _Tasman_ to the rescue frontispiece
The approach of the _Halbrane_ 11
Going aboard the _Halbrane_ 29
Cook's route was effectively barred by ice floes 83
Taking in sail under difficulties 103
"There, look there! That's a fin-back!" 117
Hunt to the rescue 127
Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm 139
Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar 161
Dirk Peters shows the way 179
The half-breed in the crow's nest 189
The _Halbrane_ fast in the iceberg 227
The _Halbrane_, staved in, broken up 253
"I was afraid; I got away from him" 267
William Guy 299
An Antarctic Mystery 321
The Parcuta 329
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I. The Kerguelen Islands.
Chapter II. The Schooner _Halbrane_
Chapter III. Captain Len Guy
Chapter IV. From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
Chapter V. Edgar Poe's Romance
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