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Good evening. Tonight, I'll be reading chapters 18-20 of A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne. So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 18 The Wrong Road

Next day, our departure took place at a very early hour. There was no time for the least delay.

According to my account, we had five days hard work to get back to the place where the galleries divided.

I can never tell all the sufferings we endured upon our return. My uncle bore them like a man who

has been in the wrong, that is, with concentrated and suppressed anger, and with all the resignation

of his specific character, and I, I confess that I did nothing but complain and despair.

I had no heart for this bad fortune, but there was one consolation. Defeat at the onset would probably

upset the whole journey. As I expected from the first, our supply of water gave completely out

on our first day's march. Our provision of liquids was reduced to our supply of skieden,

but this horrible nay, I will say it. This infernal liquor burnt the throat,

and I could not even bear the sight of it. I found the temperature to be stifling.

I was paralyzed with fatigue. More than once I was about to fall insensible to the ground.

The whole party then halted, and the worthy Icelander and my excellent uncle did their best to

console and comfort me. I could, however, plainly see that my uncle was contending painfully

against the extreme fatigue of our journey, and the awful torture generated by the absence of water.

At length, a time came when I ceased to recollect anything, when all was one awful, hideous, fantastic dream.

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