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So then, after a voyage long delayed by calms, then favored by winds from the northwest and from the southwest—a voyage which had not lasted less than seventy-four days—the "Pilgrim" had just run aground!
However, Mrs. Weldon. and her companions thanked Providence1, because they were in safety. In fact, it was on a continent, and not on one of the fatal isles3 of Polynesia, that the tempest had thrown them. Their return to their country, from any point of South America on which they should land, ought not, it seemed, to present serious difficulties.
As to the "Pilgrim," she was lost. She was only a carcass without value, of which the surf was going to disperse4 the débris in a few hours. It would be impossible to save anything. But if Dick Sand had not that joy of bringing back a vessel5 intact to his ship-owner, at least, thanks to him, those who sailed in her were safe and sound on some hospitable6 coast, and among them, the wife and child of James W. Weldon.
As to the question of knowing on what part of the American coast the schooner7 had been wrecked8, they might dispute it for a long time. Was it, as Dick Sand must suppose, on the shore of Peru? Perhaps, for he knew, even by the bearings of the Isle2 of Paques, that the "Pilgrim" had been thrown to the northeast under the action of the winds; and also, without doubt, under the influence of the currents of the equatorial zone. From the forty-third degree of latitude9, it had, indeed, been possible to drift to the fifteenth.
It was then important to determine, as soon as possible, the precise point of the coast where the schooner had just been lost. Granted that this coast was that of Peru, ports, towns and villages were not lacking, and consequently it would be easy to gain some inhabited place. As to this part of the coast, it seemed
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crest
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stranding
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botanist
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admiration
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longevity
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specimen
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profusion
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detonation
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smoker
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n.吸烟者,吸烟车厢,吸烟室 | |
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小跑,急走( trot的现在分词 ); 匆匆忙忙地走 | |
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triumphantly
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destined
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cavern
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winding
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requisites
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mingle
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persistence
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desolate
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radius
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extricating
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pensive
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a.沉思的,哀思的,忧沉的 | |
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repugnance
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wrecks
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n.沉船( wreck的名词复数 );(事故中)遭严重毁坏的汽车(或飞机等);(身体或精神上)受到严重损伤的人;状况非常糟糕的车辆(或建筑物等)v.毁坏[毁灭]某物( wreck的第三人称单数 );使(船舶)失事,使遇难,使下沉 | |
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repulse
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savages
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aggression
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entangle
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situated
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persistently
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geographical
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astronomically
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purely
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ascending
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demolishing
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dispersed
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literally
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