'The sea, as Aristotle asserted, and as thousands of despairing wrecked men have found, is an inhospitapble prairie for those who are on it without the necessary elements of a ship.'Narrator
'It was neither a bear, nor an elephant, nor a tiger, nor a buffalo, nor an alligator. It was Brix!'Jacques Paganel
'A beautiful country, my dear madam—very rich, very fertile! In its forests, in its fields, in its rivers, on its mountains, wealth is everywhere. You see this when you are in New Zealand.'Robert Grant
'There are in all four millions of inhabitants, which makes eight to every English square mile.'Narrator
'Faith, they are koaties!—about a hundred of them. It's four times too many, but no matter! Let's charge them!'Captain McNabbs
'Oh, quite so! Make your observations, Mr. Paganel; it is important to know which way the wind blows.'John Mangles
'That land at the foot of the mountains is Patagonia; and yonder, as it dimly peeps from the mists, is the long-sought-for goal, where the Captain Grant must be living with his two sailors.'Narrator
'Auch! Let us go on to the end. Who knows if we shall not find the captain alive, after all!'Captain McNabbs
'Long life to the sun! It has been an eclipse of the sun, and I, like a true ninny, never thought of it!'Jacques Paganel
'Our task is done, my friend. The providential document has guided our steps hither, and the expedition of the Duncan has not been undertaken in vain.'Glenarvan