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/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0000.wav | 491,884 | from cape horn to the amazon how i got onto the platform i'm unable to say perhaps the canadian transferred me there but i could breathe i could inhale the life giving sea air |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0001.wav | 524,204 | next to me my two companions were getting tipsy on the fresh oxygen particles poor souls who have suffered from long starvation mustn't pounce heedlessly on the first food given them we on the other hand didn't have to practice such moderation |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0002.wav | 501,164 | we could suck the atoms from the air by the lungful and it was the breeze the breeze itself that poured into us this luxurious intoxication ahhh conseil was putting in |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0003.wav | 525,964 | what fine oxygen let master have no fears about breathing there's enough for everyone as for ned land he didn't say a word but his wide open jaws would have scared off a shark |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0004.wav | 488,844 | and what powerful inhalations the canadian drew like a furnace going full blast our strength returned promptly and when i looked around i saw that we were alone on the platform no crewmen |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0005.wav | 455,084 | those strange seamen on the nautilus were content with the oxygen circulating inside not one of them had come up to enjoy the open air the first words i pronounced were words of appreciation |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0006.wav | 472,204 | and gratitude to my two companions ned and conseil had kept me alive during the final hours of our long death throes but no expression of thanks could repay them fully for such devotion |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0007.wav | 530,924 | good lord professor ned land answered me don't mention it what did we do that's so praiseworthy not a thing it was a question of simple arithmetic your life is worth more than ours so we had to save it |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0008.wav | 425,164 | and you my gallant conseil you suffered a great deal not too much to be candid with master i was lacking a few throatfuls of air but i would have gotten by |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0009.wav | 442,444 | it took my breath away in a manner of confounded by this lapse into banality conseil left his sentence hanging my friends i replied very moved |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0010.wav | 320,204 | we're bound to each other forever and i'm deeply indebted to you which i'll take advantage of the canadian shot back |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0011.wav | 501,804 | conseil put in yes ned land went on you can repay your debt by coming with me when i leave this infernal nautilus by the way conseil said are we going in a favorable direction |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0012.wav | 469,964 | yes i replied because we're going in the direction of the sun and here the sun is due north sure ned land went on but it remains to be seen whether we'll make for the atlantic or the pacific |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0013.wav | 411,724 | but if we returned to the pacific far from every populated shore what would happen to ned land's plans we would soon settle this important point the nautilus traveled swiftly |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0014.wav | 163,404 | soon we had cleared the antarctic circle plus the promontory of cape horn |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0015.wav | 346,604 | by then all our past sufferings were forgotten the memory of that imprisonment under the ice faded from our minds we had thoughts only of the future |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0016.wav | 427,244 | now then that evening it became obvious much to my satisfaction that we were returning north by the atlantic route i shared the results of my observations with the canadian and conseil |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0017.wav | 316,684 | that's good news the canadian replied but where's the nautilus going i'm unable to say ned after the south pole |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0018.wav | 321,004 | we'll never regret having known him especially once we've left him ned land shot back the next day |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0019.wav | 224,684 | when the nautilus rose to the surface of the waves a few minutes before noon we raised land to the west |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0020.wav | 502,764 | the land of fire a name given it by early navigators after they saw numerous curls of smoke rising from the natives huts this land of fire forms a huge cluster of islands over thirty leagues long and eighty leagues wide |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0021.wav | 249,804 | its coastline looked flat but high mountains rose in the distance i even thought i glimpsed mt sarmiento |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0022.wav | 510,124 | a pyramid shaped block of shale with a very sharp summit which depending on whether it's clear or veiled in vapor predicts fair weather or foul as ned land told me a first class barometer my friend |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0023.wav | 502,284 | yes sir a natural barometer that didn't let me down when i navigated the narrows of the strait of magellan just then its peak appeared before us standing out distinctly against the background of the skies this forecast fair weather |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0024.wav | 504,364 | bulb bearing seaweed of which the open sea at the pole had revealed a few specimens with their smooth viscous filaments they measured as much as three hundred meters long genuine cables more than an inch thick and very tough |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0025.wav | 465,964 | it served as both nest and nourishment for myriads of crustaceans and mollusks for crabs and cuttlefish here seals and otters could indulge in a sumptuous meal mixing meat from fish |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0026.wav | 364,844 | with vegetables from the sea like the english with their irish stews the nautilus passed over these lush luxuriant depths with tremendous speed |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0027.wav | 340,844 | in these waterways our nets brought up fine samples of algae in particular certain fucus plants whose roots were laden with the world's best mussels |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0028.wav | 400,524 | as for fish i specifically observed some bony fish belonging to the goby genus especially some gudgeon two decimeters long sprinkled with whitish and yellow spots |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0029.wav | 327,564 | i likewise marveled at the numerous medusas including the most beautiful of their breed the compass jellyfish unique to the falkland seas |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0030.wav | 357,804 | some of these jellyfish were shaped like very smooth semispheric parasols with russet stripes and fringes of twelve neat festoons others looked like |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0031.wav | 459,564 | upside down baskets from which wide leaves and long red twigs were gracefully trailing they swam with quiverings of their four leaflike arms letting the opulent tresses of their tentacles dangle in the drift |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0032.wav | 344,364 | shadows illusions melting and evaporating outside their native element when the last tips of the falkland islands had disappeared below the horizon |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0033.wav | 170,284 | between twenty and twenty five meters and went along the south american coast |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0034.wav | 73,164 | didn't put in an appearance |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0035.wav | 382,124 | keeping to its northerly heading it followed the long windings of south america by then we had fared sixteen thousand leagues since coming on board in the seas of japan |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0036.wav | 343,884 | near eleven o'clock in the morning we cut the tropic of capricorn on the thirty seventh meridian passing well out from cape frio much to ned land's displeasure |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130895-0037.wav | 249,004 | captain nemo had no liking for the neighborhood of brazil's populous shores because he shot by with dizzying speed |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0000.wav | 514,124 | chapter sixteen shortage of air consequently above below and around the nautilus there were impenetrable frozen walls we were the ice bank's prisoners the canadian banged a table with his fearsome fist |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0001.wav | 501,004 | conseil kept still i stared at the captain his face had resumed its usual emotionlessness he crossed his arms he pondered the nautilus did not stir the captain then broke into speech gentlemen |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0002.wav | 512,204 | he said in a calm voice there are two ways of dying under the conditions in which we're placed this inexplicable individual acted like a mathematics professor working out a problem for his pupils the first way he went on |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0003.wav | 418,764 | is death by crushing the second is death by asphyxiation i don't mention the possibility of death by starvation because the nautilus's provisions will certainly last longer than we will |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0004.wav | 453,324 | therefore let's concentrate on our chances of being crushed or asphyxiated as for asphyxiation captain i replied that isn't a cause for alarm because the air tanks are full true |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0005.wav | 505,324 | but they'll supply air for only two days now then we've been buried beneath the waters for thirty six hours and the nautilus's heavy atmosphere already needs renewing in another forty eight hours our reserve air will be used up |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0006.wav | 474,924 | well then captain let's free ourselves within forty eight hours we'll try to at least by cutting through one of these walls surrounding us which one i asked borings will tell us that |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0007.wav | 463,244 | i'm going to ground the nautilus on the lower shelf then my men will put on their diving suits and attack the thinnest of these ice walls can the panels in the lounge be left open without ill effect we're no longer in motion |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0008.wav | 490,764 | hissing sounds soon told me that water was being admitted into the ballast tanks the nautilus slowly settled and rested on the icy bottom at a depth of three hundred fifty meters the depth at which the lower shelf of ice lay submerged |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0009.wav | 428,204 | my friends i said we're in a serious predicament but i'm counting on your courage and energy sir the canadian replied this is no time to bore you with my complaints |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0010.wav | 466,764 | he can use me any way he wants he won't turn down your assistance come along ned i led the canadian to the room where the nautilus's men were putting on their diving suits i informed the captain of ned's proposition |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0011.wav | 226,444 | which was promptly accepted the canadian got into his underwater costume and was ready as soon as his fellow workers |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0012.wav | 486,764 | after ned was dressed i reentered the lounge whose windows had been uncovered stationed next to conseil i examined the strata surrounding and supporting the nautilus some moments later we saw a dozen crewmen set foot on the shelf of ice |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0013.wav | 478,764 | before digging into the ice the captain had to obtain borings to insure working in the best direction long bores were driven into the side walls but after fifteen meters the instruments were still impeded by the thickness of those walls |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0014.wav | 83,244 | more than four hundred meters high |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0015.wav | 464,684 | there we were separated from the sea by a ten meter barrier that's how thick the iceberg was from this point on it was an issue of cutting out a piece equal in surface area to the nautilus's waterline this meant detaching about |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0016.wav | 512,044 | six thousand five hundred cubic meters to dig a hole through which the ship could descend below this tract of ice work began immediately and was carried on with tireless tenacity instead of digging all around the nautilus which would have entailed even greater difficulties |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0017.wav | 394,924 | then his men simultaneously staked it off at several points around its circumference soon their picks were vigorously attacking this compact matter and huge chunks were loosened from its mass |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0018.wav | 293,164 | these chunks weighed less than the water and by an unusual effect of specific gravity each chunk took wing as it were to the roof of the tunnel |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0019.wav | 476,364 | but this hardly mattered so long as the lower surface kept growing thinner after two hours of energetic work ned land reentered exhausted he and his companions were replaced by new workmen including conseil and me |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0020.wav | 479,084 | the nautilus's chief officer supervised us the water struck me as unusually cold but i warmed up promptly while wielding my pick my movements were quite free although they were executed under a pressure of thirty atmospheres |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0021.wav | 389,484 | and the nautilus's atmosphere which was already charged with carbon dioxide the air hadn't been renewed in forty eight hours and its life giving qualities were considerably weakened meanwhile |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0022.wav | 424,044 | after twelve hours had gone by we had removed from the outlined surface area a slice of ice only one meter thick hence about six hundred cubic meters assuming the same work would be accomplished every twelve hours |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0023.wav | 462,444 | before the nautilus could return to the surface of the waves couldn't we all die of asphyxiation were this ship and everyone on board doomed to perish in this tomb of ice it was a dreadful state of affairs but we faced it head on |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0024.wav | 423,084 | each one of us determined to do his duty to the end during the night in line with my forecasts a new one meter slice was removed from this immense socket but in the morning wearing my diving suit |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0025.wav | 490,604 | when i noted that little by little the side walls were closing in on each other the liquid strata farthest from the trench not warmed by the movements of workmen and tools were showing a tendency to solidify in the face of this imminent new danger |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0026.wav | 221,164 | there was no point in dampening the energy they were putting into our arduous rescue work but when i returned on board |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0027.wav | 457,002 | i know he told me in that calm tone the most dreadful outlook couldn't change it's one more danger but i don't know any way of warding it off our sole chance for salvation |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0028.wav | 470,446 | is to work faster than the water solidifies we've got to get there first that's all get there first by then i should have been used to this type of talk for several hours that day i wielded my pick doggedly |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0029.wav | 422,764 | the work kept me going besides working meant leaving the nautilus which meant breathing the clean oxygen drawn from the air tanks and supplied by our equipment which meant leaving the thin foul air behind |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0030.wav | 498,284 | near evening one more meter had been dug from the trench when i returned on board i was wellnigh asphyxiated by the carbon dioxide saturating the air oh if only we had the chemical methods that would enable us to drive out this noxious gas |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0031.wav | 162,924 | there was no lack of oxygen all this water contained a considerable amount |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0032.wav | 505,484 | this life giving elastic fluid could have been restored to us i had thought it all out but to no avail because the carbon dioxide produced by our breathing permeated every part of the ship to absorb it we would need to fill containers with potassium hydroxide |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0033.wav | 210,924 | and shake them continually but this substance was missing on board and nothing else could replace it |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0034.wav | 476,364 | without this precaution we wouldn't have awakened the following morning the next day march twenty sixth i returned to my miner's trade working to remove the fifth meter the ice bank's side walls and underbelly had visibly thickened |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0035.wav | 491,084 | obviously they would come together before the nautilus could break free for an instant i was gripped by despair my pick nearly slipped from my hands what was the point of this digging if i was to die smothered and crushed by this water turning to stone |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0036.wav | 407,244 | a torture undreamed of by even the wildest savages i felt like i was lying in the jaws of a fearsome monster jaws irresistibly closing supervising our work |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0037.wav | 417,484 | working himself captain nemo passed near me just then i touched him with my hand and pointed to the walls of our prison the starboard wall had moved forward to a point less than four meters from the nautilus's hull |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0038.wav | 448,044 | the captain understood and gave me a signal to follow him we returned on board my diving suit removed i went with him to the lounge professor aronnax he told me this calls for heroic measures |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0039.wav | 344,204 | or we'll be sealed up in this solidified water as if it were cement yes i said but what can we do oh he exclaimed |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0040.wav | 500,044 | if only my nautilus were strong enough to stand that much pressure without being crushed well i asked not catching the captain's meaning don't you understand he went on that the congealing of this water |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0041.wav | 526,284 | could come to our rescue don't you see that by solidifying it could burst these tracts of ice imprisoning us just as its freezing can burst the hardest stones aren't you aware that this force could be the instrument of our salvation rather than our destruction |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0042.wav | 444,524 | i know it sir so we can't rely on nature to rescue us only our own efforts we must counteract this solidification we must hold it in check not only are the side walls closing in |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0043.wav | 502,604 | but there aren't ten feet of water ahead or astern of the nautilus all around us this freeze is gaining fast how long i asked will the oxygen in the air tanks enable us to breathe on board the captain looked me straight in the eye |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0044.wav | 457,164 | it was now the twenty sixth we had lived off the ship's stores for five days and all remaining breathable air had to be saved for the workmen even today as i write these lines my sensations are so intense |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0045.wav | 220,844 | that an involuntary terror sweeps over me and my lungs still seem short of air meanwhile |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0046.wav | 500,364 | boiling water i exclaimed yes sir we're shut up in a relatively confined area if the nautilus's pumps continually injected streams of boiling water into this space wouldn't that raise its temperature and delay its freezing |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0047.wav | 190,124 | it's worth trying i said resolutely so let's try it professor |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0048.wav | 483,724 | captain nemo led me to the galley where a huge distilling mechanism was at work supplying drinking water via evaporation the mechanism was loaded with water and the full electric heat of our batteries was thrown into coils awash in liquid |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0049.wav | 497,164 | in a few minutes the water reached one hundred degrees centigrade it was sent to the pumps while new water replaced it in the process the heat generated by our batteries was so intense that after simply going through the mechanism water drawn cold from the sea arrived |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0050.wav | 268,524 | boiling hot at the body of the pump the steaming water was injected into the icy water outside and after three hours had passed |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0051.wav | 69,004 | that was one degree gained |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0052.wav | 490,924 | after i monitored the operation's progress double checking it with many inspections i told the captain it's working i think so he answered me we've escaped being crushed now we have only asphyxiation to fear |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0053.wav | 119,404 | the injections couldn't get it to go a single degree higher |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0054.wav | 506,284 | i was finally assured that there was no danger of it solidifying by the next day march twenty seventh six meters of ice had been torn from the socket only four meters were left to be removed that still meant forty eight hours of work |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0055.wav | 506,924 | the air couldn't be renewed in the nautilus's interior accordingly that day it kept getting worse an unbearable heaviness weighed me down near three o'clock in the afternoon this agonizing sensation affected me to an intense degree |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0056.wav | 530,124 | yawns dislocated my jaws my lungs were gasping in their quest for that enkindling elastic fluid required for breathing now growing scarcer and scarcer my mind was in a daze i lay outstretched strength gone |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0057.wav | 465,804 | nearly unconscious my gallant conseil felt the same symptoms suffered the same sufferings yet never left my side he held my hand he kept encouraging me and i even heard him mutter |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0058.wav | 353,484 | to leave more air for master it brought tears to my eyes to hear him say these words since conditions inside were universally unbearable |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0059.wav | 503,564 | picks rang out on that bed of ice arms grew weary hands were rubbed raw but who cared about exhaustion what difference were wounds life sustaining air reached our lungs we could breathe we could breathe |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0060.wav | 365,164 | and yet nobody prolonged his underwater work beyond the time allotted him his shift over each man surrendered to a gasping companion the air tank that would revive him |
/data/libriadapt/en-in/clean/respeaker/train/405-130894-0061.wav | 478,924 | when his time was up he yielded his equipment to another and reentered the foul air on board always calm unflinching and uncomplaining that day the usual work was accomplished with even greater energy |
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