An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
[ Redactor’s Note: An Antarctic Mystery (Number V046 in
the T&M numerical listing of Verne’s works, is a translation of Le Sphinx
de Glaces (1897) translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey who also translated other
Verne works.
AN
ANTARCTIC MYSTERY
BY
JULES VERNE
TRANSLATED BY MRS. CASHEL HOEY
ILLUSTRATED
1899
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Tasman to the rescue
| frontispiece
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| The approach of the Halbrane
| 11
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| Going aboard the Halbrane
| 29
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| Cook’s route was effectively barred by ice floes
| 83
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| Taking in sail under difficulties
| 103
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| “There, look there! That’s a fin-back!”
| 117
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| Hunt to the rescue
| 127
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| Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm
| 139
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| Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar
| 161
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| Dirk Peters shows the way
| 179
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| The half-breed in the crow’s nest
| 189
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| The Halbrane fast in the iceberg
| 227
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| The Halbrane, staved in, broken up
| 253
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| “I was afraid; I got away from him”
| 267
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| William Guy
| 299
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| An Antarctic Mystery
| 321
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| The Parcuta
| 329 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Chapter I.
| The Kerguelen Islands.
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| Chapter II.
| The Schooner Halbrane
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| Chapter III.
| Captain Len Guy
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| Chapter IV.
| From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
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| Chapter V.
| Edgar Poe’s Romance
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| Chapter VI.
| An Ocean Waif
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| Chapter VII.
| Tristan D’Acunha
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| Chapter VIII.
| Bound for the Falklands
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| Chapter IX.
| Fitting out the Halbrane
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| Chapter X.
| The Outset of the Enterprise
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| Chapter XI.
| From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle
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| Chapter XII.
| Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall
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| Chapter XIII.
| Along the Front of the Icebergs
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| Chapter XIV.
| A Voice in a Dream
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| Chapter XV.
| Bennet Islet
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| Chapter XVI.
| Tsalal Island
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| Chapter XVII.
| And Pym
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| Chapter XVIII.
| A Revelation
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| Chapter XIX.
| Land?
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| Chapter XX.
| “Unmerciful Disaster"
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| Chapter XXI.
| Amid the Mists
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| Chapter XXII.
| In Camp
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| Chapter XXIII.
| Found at Last
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| Chapter XXIV.
| Eleven Years in a Few Pages
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| Chapter XXV.
| “We Were the First"
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| Chapter XXVI.
| A Little Remnant |
AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY
(Also called THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS)
