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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