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translation) by Jules Verne Chapter X Where, with telescope at
the eye, and sounding line in hand, one seeks to find some
vestiges of the province of Algiers.   The Dobryna, a strong
craft of 200 tons burden, had been built in the famous ship-
building yards in the Isle of Wight. Her sea-going qualities
were excellent, and would have amply sufficed for a
circumnavigation of the globe; in fact, the ships in which
Columbus and Magellan took their voyages across the Atlantic
were far inferior both in size and in construction. Her store-
compartments were capacious, and carried provisions enough for
several months, so that she was quite capable of making the
entire circuit of the Mediterranean without any necessity for
re-victualling. Neither was there any occasion for her to take
in fresh ballast at Gourbi Island. The weight of the water had
diminished in precisely the same ratio as that of al