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CHAPTER XXXIV — How They Steered On Their Way
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When we quitted the Chamois for the brigantine, we must have been at least two hundred leagues to the westward1 of the spot, where we had abandoned the Arcturion. Though how far we might then have been, North or South of the Equator, I could not with any certainty divine.
But that we were not removed any considerable distance from the Line, seemed obvious. For in the starriest night no sign of the extreme Polar constellations2 was visible; though often we scanned the northern and southern horizon in search of them. So far as regards the aspect of the skies near the ocean's rim3, the difference of several degrees in one's latitude4 at sea, is readily perceived by a person long accustomed to surveying the heavens.
If correct in my supposition, concerning our longitude5 at the time here alluded6 to, and allowing for what little progress we had been making in the Parki, there now remained some one hundred leagues to sail, ere the country we sought would be found. But for obvious reasons, how long precisely7 we might continue to float out of sight of land, it was impossible to say. Calms, light breezes, and currents made every thing uncertain. Nor had we any method of estimating our due westward progress, except by what is called Dead Reckoning,—the computation of the knots run hourly; allowances' being made for the supposed deviations8 from our course, by reason of the ocean streams; which at times in this quarter of the Pacific run with very great velocity9.
Now, in many respects we could not but feel safer aboard the Parki than in the Chamois. The sense of danger is less vivid, the greater the number of lives involved. He who is ready to despair in
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westward
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latitude
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longitude
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alluded
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precisely
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deviations
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velocity
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solitary
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peril
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countenance
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consolation
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planks
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vigilant
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impunity
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temerity
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joyous
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misgivings
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apprehensions
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nay
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Augmented
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remissness
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murky
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steer
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prow
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doze
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mere
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appalling
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stature
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savage
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drowsiness
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drowsy
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watchfulness
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警惕,留心; 警觉(性) | |
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dispensed
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perversely
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obtuse
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lulled
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steered
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微睡,睡眠(slumber的现在分词形式) | |
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allotted
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分配,拨给,摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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acquitted
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standing
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allured
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steering
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rotation
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guardian
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mighty
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extravagant
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unintelligible
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worthy
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repose
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decided
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solicited
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spouse
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abstaining
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戒(尤指酒),戒除( abstain的现在分词 ); 弃权(不投票) | |
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admiration
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sufficiently
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admonished
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onward
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eastward
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eastwardly
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obstructing
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