He dragged him, half-suffocated, beyond the influence of the vapours.
[Frontispiece.
KÉRABAN THE INFLEXIBLE
(PART I.)
THE
CAPTAIN OF THE GUIDARA
BY
JULES VERNE
AUTHOR OF "FIVE WEEKS IN A BALLOON," "ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS," ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
London
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET
1887
[All rights reserved]
LONDON:
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN'S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD, E.C.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PAGE - How Van Mitten and his valet walked and talked
9 CHAPTER II. - How Scarpante the steward and Captain Yarhud discussed projects with which the reader must become acquainted
21 CHAPTER III. - How Kéraban met Van Mitten, and was greatly surprised at his appearance
30 CHAPTER IV. - Showing how Seigneur Kéraban, more headstrong than ever, came into collision with the Turkish authorities
39 CHAPTER V. - How Seigneur Kéraban discussed his journey, and how he quitted Constantinople
47 CHAPTER VI. - Showing how the travellers encountered some difficulties, chiefly in the delta of the Danube
55 CHAPTER VII. - In which the horses of the chaise do from fear what they would not do for the whip
65 CHAPTER VIII. - In which the reader will be pleased to become acquainted with the fair Amasia, and her intended husband, Ahmet
76 CHAPTER IX. - Showing how Captain Yarhud very nearly succeeded in his enterprise
85 CHAPTER X. - In which Ahmet, in deference to circumstances, makes an energetic resolution
93 CHAPTER XI. - In which a somewhat dramatic incident occurs in the fantastic history of the journey
101 CHAPTER XII. - In which Van Mitten discourses on tulips for, we trust, the benefit of the reader
110 CHAPTER XIII. - Showing how our travellers crossed the ancient Taurida, and with what team they quitted it
121 CHAPTER XIV. - In which Kéraban proves that he is stronger in geography than his nephew Ahmet believed
132 CHAPTER XV. - In which Kéraban, Ahmet, Van Mitten, and their servants play the part of Salamanders
142 CHAPTER XVI. - In which the relative merits of the tobaccos of Persia and Asia Minor are discussed
153 CHAPTER XVII. - Wherein is related a very curious adventure, which terminates the first part of this history
164.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- He dragged him, half-suffocated, beyond the influence of the vapours
Frontispiece. - "Are you certain of your crew?"
24 - The tremendously steep slopes and awkward corners
59 - It was a regular rain of bulbs
118 - The immense illumination quite filled the plain
148 - Kéraban walked up to the chief cavalier, and put his hand on the horse's bridle
172
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