Coast
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Traveling in the lead, the Compass ran afoul of breakers on the southerly
coast.
They headed to the Solomon Islands, and they perished with all hands on the westerly
coast
of the chief island in that group, between Cape Deception and Cape Satisfaction!""And how do you know all this?"
Before the Nautilus's spur there stretched the dangerous waterways of the Coral Sea, off the northeast
coast
of Australia.
On January 4, two days after crossing the Coral Sea, we raised the
coast
of Papua.
In a few minutes we were a gunshot away from the
coast.
Ned Land went westward up the coast; then, fording some stream beds, he reached open plains that were bordered by wonderful forests.
By then the Nautilus lay hundreds of miles from the nearest
coast!
To reach it we had to go all the way up Ceylon's west
coast.
I haven't let the Nautilus pull too near the coast, and we're fairly well out from the Mannar oysterbank.
Going up Ceylon's west
coast
during the night, the Nautilus lay west of the bay, or rather that gulf formed by the mainland and Mannar Island.
Near 5:30 the first glimmers of light on the horizon defined the upper lines of the
coast
with greater distinctness.
Here, under these clear waves, this crab raced around with matchless agility, while green turtles from the species frequenting the Malabar
coast
moved sluggishly among the crumbling rocks.
I glimpsed the octagonal minarets of this town, which used to be one of the wealthiest, busiest commercial centers along this coast, as the Arab historian Idrisi tells it.
What an indescribable sight, and what a variety of settings and scenery where these reefs and volcanic islands leveled off by the Libyan
coast!
This was off the
coast
of Tihama, and there such zoophyte displays not only flourished below sea level but they also fashioned picturesque networks that unreeled as high as ten fathoms above it; the latter were more whimsical but less colorful than the former, which kept their bloom thanks to the moist vitality of the waters.
But their waters of choice are the Red Sea and the Mediterranean near the Greek Islands or the
coast
of Syria.
So I called Conseil to my side, while at an average depth of eight to nine meters, the Nautilus slowly skimmed every beautiful rock on the easterly
coast.
On February 9 the Nautilus cruised in the widest part of the Red Sea, measuring 190 miles straight across from Suakin on the west
coast
to Qunfidha on the east
coast.
A few months later off the
coast
of Syria, I recaptured a few specimens of my fish, adorned with their telltale rings.
The same evening, at latitude 21 degrees 30' north, the Nautilus was afloat on the surface of the sea and drawing nearer to the Arab
coast.
The
coast
to the east looked like a slightly blurred mass in a damp fog.
I stared in silence at the high, sheer wall we were skirting just then, the firm base of the sandy mountains on the
coast.
"That flat coastline curving southward is the
coast
of Egypt."
"One that leads the Nautilus on a cloudy night within a short distance of some European coast."
I have no idea, but usually he stayed in midwater and well out from any
coast.
By then we were passing between Sicily and the
coast
of Tunisia.
From the
coast
of Algiers to the beaches of Provence, how many ships have wrecked, how many vessels have vanished!
We're going up the
coast
of Portugal.
This evening we'll be just a few miles off the
coast
of Spain.
I wanted to see if the Nautilus's heading was actually taking us closer to the
coast
or spiriting us farther away.
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