What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.