A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH - 29

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH By Jules Verne CHAPTER 29 ON THE WATERS--A RAFT VOYAGE On the thirteenth of August we were up betimes. There was no time to be lost. We now had to inaugurate ...Read Morenew kind of locomotion, which would have the advantage of being rapid and not fatiguing. A mast, made of two pieces of wood fastened together, to give additional strength, a yard made from another one, the sail a linen sheet from our bed. We were fortunately in no want of cordage, and the whole on trial appeared solid and seaworthy. Read Less