filename
stringlengths
14
82
segments
listlengths
0
20
audio_token
listlengths
1
1
audio_duration
float64
0.52
475
equator_53_twain_64kb_0010
[ { "end": 17.056, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "He proposed an exchange of autographs a delicate attention which made me believe in him, but I had been having my doubts before. He wrote his in his book and I have a reverent regard for that book though the words run from right to left and so I can't re...
[ [ [ 1991, 1383, 3433, 3778, 1582, 675, 1022, 3271, 2548, 2378, 618, 1022, 2077, 2205, 3983, 3896, 314, 2679, 240, 3506, 1894, 3451, 3283, 3279, 3449, 1268, ...
230.16
equator_22_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 20.759, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "I saw the same man leap from the ground and in going over he dipped his head, unaided by his hands, into a hat placed in an inverted position on the top of the head of another man sitting upright on horseback, both man and horse being of the average size...
[ [ [ 2325, 4007, 1584, 4007, 476, 1079, 3822, 2399, 3822, 2686, 3713, 2009, 1550, 1758, 3088, 3438, 930, 3012, 2377, 3276, 3078, 315, 4072, 3213, 877, 3131, ...
57.76
equator_08_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 28.712, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "otherwise they were just the same. He said that the only game bird in Australia was the wombat, and the only song bird the larikin and that both were protected by government. The most beautiful of the native birds was the Bird of Paradise next came the t...
[ [ [ 2683, 2756, 1976, 1251, 1962, 2934, 772, 955, 1466, 2054, 293, 2112, 2905, 1391, 2074, 2180, 542, 3463, 156, 2806, 2562, 1940, 481, 2904, 1068, 142, ...
28.72
equator_54_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 15.913, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "he laid himself down to die and his death, I believe, was very sudden for he was a short, full, sanguine man his strength was great and, I imagine, had he not retired with me I should never have been able to force my way." ] }, { "end": 43.93...
[ [ [ 2339, 1484, 2513, 2226, 3353, 2692, 1991, 291, 3612, 446, 2149, 3205, 2443, 3829, 2007, 3062, 3794, 785, 448, 2130, 3777, 53, 3161, 185, 2015, 614, ...
79.44
equator_15_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 23.933, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "we all know now, but not a dozen people knew then and the dozen kept the mystery to themselves and allowed the most intricate and fascinating and marvelous real life romance that has ever been played upon the world stage to unfold itself serenely, act by...
[ [ [ 1588, 1003, 3353, 1257, 1991, 3906, 718, 3353, 1484, 1418, 1152, 3063, 3271, 3908, 2577, 473, 241, 519, 2287, 710, 2331, 2674, 814, 920, 3506, 690, ...
37.92
equator_10_twain_64kb_0005
[ { "end": 23.114, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "the incidents quoted above are mere hints, mere suggestions of what convict life was like they are but a couple of details tossed into view out of a shoreless sea of such or, to change the figure, they are but a pair of flaming steeples photographed from...
[ [ [ 566, 4014, 3332, 1400, 4014, 2513, 1440, 3983, 2077, 2097, 3353, 1869, 480, 547, 3564, 71, 2235, 2929, 3928, 434, 3099, 3337, 3519, 3929, 1623, 906, ...
23.12
equator_23_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 21.101, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "alongside the bank and a little way back in the garden, there is a row of soaring fountain sprays of delicate feathery foliage quivering in the breeze, and mottled with flashes of light that shift and play through the mass like flashlights through an opa...
[ [ [ 179, 2742, 473, 1718, 3645, 2069, 3453, 3358, 3090, 850, 3467, 2552, 92, 3085, 3144, 1523, 1857, 1135, 608, 728, 3212, 2656, 411, 1810, 1240, 3948, ...
41.76
equator_34_twain_64kb_0001
[ { "end": 18.37, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "november twenty seventh. Today we reached Gisburne, and anchored in a big bay. There was a heavy sea on, so we remained on board. We were a mile from shore a little steam tug put out from the land she was an object of thrilling interest she would climb to...
[ [ [ 660, 3820, 2232, 3573, 2641, 2052, 361, 2345, 3324, 944, 3316, 491, 2415, 2245, 209, 2580, 2878, 1869, 90, 3298, 1310, 3269, 2989, 3234, 3202, 494, ...
114.8
equator_29_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 22.278, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "if the rock bound coasts, sullen, defiant, and lowering, seemed uninviting, these were occasionally broken into charmingly alluring coves floored with golden sand, clad with evergreen shrubbery and adorned with every variety of indigenous wattle, she oak...
[ [ [ 675, 1842, 3353, 3654, 3731, 1624, 1604, 3736, 628, 1051, 2835, 2287, 3543, 1652, 446, 538, 1257, 2209, 2620, 2182, 1746, 2577, 1890, 1386, 2629, 1148, ...
39.92
equator_58_twain_64kb_0005
[ { "end": 18.439, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "the mutiny broke out so suddenly and spread with such rapidity that there was but little time for occupants of weak outlying stations to escape to places of safety. Attempts were made, of course, but they were attended by hardships as bitter as death in ...
[ [ [ 317, 385, 3027, 2692, 2639, 3271, 4083, 1418, 1152, 1856, 692, 1873, 3844, 2337, 3153, 1229, 3921, 2264, 2550, 2728, 2083, 1934, 3543, 259, 1925, 3545, ...
47.6
equator_30_twain_64kb_0005
[ { "end": 29.275, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This caterpillar was in the act of loyally carrying out a law inflicted upon him by nature a law purposely inflicted upon him to get him into trouble a law which was a trap. In pursuance of this law he made the proper preparations for turning himself int...
[ [ [ 2278, 2700, 69, 2855, 517, 314, 4007, 60, 1435, 2264, 3439, 3794, 2296, 2728, 3543, 538, 3249, 1276, 2808, 2887, 368, 283, 498, 1502, 1803, 1436, ...
75.2
equator_59_twain_64kb_0028
[ { "end": 22.039, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "In time the trunk and every branch and twig are encased in hard, pure ice so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass glass that is crystal clear all along the under side of every branch and twig is a comb of little icicles the frozen d...
[ [ [ 2266, 3439, 1603, 3555, 654, 225, 1051, 2024, 3913, 1574, 1211, 3958, 3579, 2614, 1112, 2816, 3029, 2751, 2454, 1767, 54, 3375, 3995, 55, 2871, 2947, ...
54.48
equator_51_twain_64kb_0006
[ { "end": 17.5, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "arrange for yours there and if you like to look at idols among the pack and jam of temples, there you will find enough to stock a museum. You will begin to commit sins now with a fresh new vivacity therefore it will be well to go frequently to a place wher...
[ [ [ 1824, 2495, 2454, 3863, 1511, 3830, 1328, 153, 2258, 3661, 1686, 3877, 3413, 580, 3242, 1139, 2210, 2194, 2042, 2015, 2724, 500, 987, 1495, 2596, 2015, ...
117.12
equator_65_twain_64kb_0006
[ { "end": 21.186, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "the cactus tree, candelabrum like, and one twisted like gray writhing serpents the flat crown should be flat roof half a dozen naked branches full of elbows slant upward like artificial supports, and fling a roof of delicate foliage out in a horizontal p...
[ [ [ 3948, 718, 2089, 3612, 317, 2229, 1131, 3353, 1842, 459, 2100, 3645, 1393, 2073, 2166, 2087, 4062, 639, 1158, 650, 3936, 995, 2311, 2597, 2092, 2437, ...
66.24
equator_60_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 29.189, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "he was a born boss and loved to command and to jaw and dispute with inferiors, and harry them and bullyrag them. He was fine at the railway station yes, he was at his finest there he would shoulder and plunge and paw his violent way through the packed mu...
[ [ [ 2339, 3896, 2372, 2207, 1003, 3757, 2833, 1805, 1119, 2281, 2743, 52, 2535, 2077, 2681, 3427, 2560, 1554, 3929, 3125, 3080, 3351, 380, 741, 3416, 3580, ...
121.12
equator_64_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 26.084, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "flocks of black women passed along, carrying outrageously heavy bags of freight on their heads. The quiver of their leg as the foot was planted and the strain exhibited by their bodies showed what a tax upon their strength the load was. They were stevedo...
[ [ [ 1304, 1997, 69, 3927, 60, 2359, 2220, 1502, 2310, 2077, 465, 1567, 630, 1399, 394, 3549, 3613, 1280, 678, 3660, 15, 577, 424, 3549, 1005, 905, 288...
26.08
equator_67_twain_64kb_0016
[ { "end": 29.701, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Jamieson hoisted a white flag and surrendered. There is a story, which may not be true, about an ignorant Boer farmer there who thought that this white flag was the national flag of England. He had been at Bronkhorst and Langsneck and Ingo and Amajuba, a...
[ [ [ 1669, 3540, 31, 3649, 1784, 1821, 3101, 222, 3176, 3917, 593, 1987, 2648, 1579, 759, 2213, 759, 1121, 1795, 1084, 814, 1935, 2109, 1176, 3306, 3812, ...
50.88
equator_08_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 16.408, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "What a strange and romantic episode it is, and how one is tortured with curiosity to know whence those mysterious creatures came those men without a country errant waifs who cannot name their lost home wandering children of nowhere" ] } ]
[ [ [ 597, 3734, 1628, 4007, 476, 3439, 1051, 2991, 1359, 2264, 3187, 2325, 2220, 541, 3429, 4008, 869, 677, 409, 3566, 2960, 1677, 469, 2064, 1896, 3746, ...
16.4
equator_10_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 26.084, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "English law was hard hearted in those days for trifling offences which in our day would be punished by a small fine or a few days' confinement men, women, and boys were sent to this other end of the earth to serve terms of seven and fourteen years, and f...
[ [ [ 3248, 898, 2458, 907, 1560, 3756, 1268, 3628, 2254, 427, 255, 1101, 1962, 3936, 3531, 3634, 352, 1199, 2104, 2479, 2541, 1217, 2339, 2580, 1951, 520, ...
49.04
equator_62_twain_64kb_0008
[ { "end": 15.981, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "she has given him the thin skin the meagre skin which is stretched over the remaining one fifth the naked bones stick up through it in most places. On the one half of this domain he can raise snow, ice, sand, rocks and nothing else." ] }, { "...
[ [ [ 919, 2548, 3440, 1484, 2742, 2339, 2372, 3765, 3622, 4085, 3326, 397, 1736, 870, 2867, 1525, 820, 3748, 262, 122, 4023, 557, 3137, 746, 816, 1427, ...
49.04
equator_45_twain_64kb_0006
[ { "end": 27.363, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "In the train, during a part of the return journey from Baroda, we had the company of a gentleman who had with him a remarkable looking dog. I had not seen one of its kind before as far as I could remember though of course I might have seen one and not no...
[ [ [ 2805, 3583, 3353, 2226, 3557, 2339, 1528, 1269, 1484, 554, 3563, 1864, 476, 2754, 1923, 785, 1209, 3519, 2417, 2381, 439, 2139, 587, 324, 1281, 433, ...
36.48
equator_06_twain_64kb_0001
[ { "end": 22.329, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Captain Waughn is crystal clear on one point he does not approve of missionaries. They obstruct his business. They make recruiting, as he calls it slave catching, as they call it in their frank way a trouble when it ought to be just a picnic and a pleasu...
[ [ [ 3794, 1051, 547, 1530, 1649, 3941, 547, 740, 471, 3744, 3111, 1346, 1143, 626, 3860, 1253, 2642, 1653, 3689, 584, 1047, 780, 1897, 1113, 1804, 3895, ...
52.32
equator_40_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 26.476, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "behind the procession followed a dog, which was led in a leash. When the mourners had reached the neighborhood of the tower neither they nor any other human being but the bearers of the dead must approach within thirty feet of it they turned and went bac...
[ [ [ 3014, 1131, 703, 3901, 4025, 2798, 4007, 2264, 1172, 1855, 3699, 2441, 2122, 474, 3709, 3880, 1290, 1375, 2697, 3148, 3061, 1105, 469, 1068, 2197, 1133,...
38.16
equator_58_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 23.404, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "In the boat where I was to have gone, says Mrs Bradshaw, confirmed throughout by Mrs Sets, was the schoolmistress and twenty two misses. General Wheeler came last in a palqui. They carried him into the water near the boat. I stood close by. He said Carry...
[ [ [ 2584, 2388, 2166, 3645, 2331, 342, 3620, 3029, 3564, 2083, 2757, 2668, 2510, 3641, 1831, 2104, 3819, 2893, 900, 1653, 2552, 1306, 3279, 2681, 654, 913, ...
46.4
equator_13_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 29.957, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "The deal went through, and secured to the young stranger the first fortune he ever pocketed. The people of Sydney ought to be afraid of the sharks, but for some reason they do not seem to be. On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometime...
[ [ [ 1582, 3913, 317, 3555, 94, 2220, 3108, 2536, 1022, 3593, 276, 869, 519, 597, 3863, 3283, 337, 2689, 2428, 2280, 538, 3115, 897, 2790, 3451, 1505, ...
34.4
equator_02_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 9.019, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "his legs almost gave way under him the horse was walking leisurely along the road Brown trotted after it, saying Whoa Whoa There's a good fellow" ] }, { "end": 35.623, "start": 9.531, "text": [ "but whenever he got near enough to...
[ [ [ 2984, 2226, 3332, 4014, 3271, 2339, 1759, 1430, 3622, 3757, 2067, 1516, 2067, 2685, 3650, 3080, 1369, 1133, 2544, 1373, 2209, 33, 398, 3064, 2243, 1121,...
133.2
equator_19_twain_64kb_0005
[ { "end": 29.394, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "South Australia built the line, and did it in eighteen seventy one, too, when her population numbered only one hundred and eighty five thousand. It was a great work, for there were no roads, no paths. One thousand three hundred miles of the route had bee...
[ [ [ 3568, 3734, 3027, 198, 316, 870, 2997, 2664, 1020, 1874, 81, 4056, 3462, 741, 3840, 2890, 535, 2014, 647, 2978, 3932, 3655, 2705, 1390, 3470, 2352, ...
54.32
equator_08_twain_64kb_0010
[ { "end": 28.814, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "you can call it anything you want to and be right it is a fish for it lives in the river half the time. It is a land animal, for it resides on the land half the time it is an amphibian, since it likes both and does not know which it prefers it is a hiber...
[ [ [ 818, 2636, 3582, 43, 2264, 2425, 1339, 1468, 1172, 2728, 2496, 731, 2556, 2751, 1443, 427, 290, 690, 1972, 1663, 3072, 1714, 3921, 854, 3095, 573, ...
83.68
equator_68_twain_64kb_0021
[ { "end": 22.022, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "those reformers detested that bore prison they were not used to cramped quarters and tedious hours, and weary idleness, and early to bed, and limited movement, and arbitrary and irritating rules, and the absence of the luxuries which wealth comforts the ...
[ [ [ 3564, 3154, 3638, 2647, 2130, 59, 1002, 1870, 3173, 3462, 1468, 626, 2832, 10, 122, 3134, 3080, 3950, 1354, 3525, 3943, 4028, 2743, 2105, 3156, 1654, ...
82.8
equator_67_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 12.568, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "they did such of these things as they could they tried to do them all in fact, did do them all but only in turn, not simultaneously. In the nature of things they could not be made to" ] }, { "end": 36.493, "start": 12.978, "text": [ ...
[ [ [ 2412, 1484, 2513, 3829, 703, 2692, 2577, 55, 2226, 3864, 1257, 383, 504, 927, 2296, 3121, 1429, 3638, 2649, 2506, 3036, 3393, 624, 3935, 733, 3869, ...
50.72
equator_64_twain_64kb_0016
[ { "end": 26.408, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "The stroke of business was in the elephant line. Jamarak had contracted to deliver to Barnum, in New York, eighteen elephants for three hundred and sixty thousand dollars in time for the next season's opening. Then it occurred to mister Barnum that he ne...
[ [ [ 909, 2325, 3642, 3913, 504, 603, 1530, 317, 2205, 1327, 1588, 3555, 3757, 3041, 2943, 54, 2205, 2378, 1588, 2908, 2984, 718, 2378, 2339, 2908, 54, ...
53.84
equator_07_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 18.166, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "In old times the Fijians were fierce fighters they were very religious and worshipped idols. The big chiefs were proud and haughty, and they were men of great style in many ways. All chiefs had several wives the biggest chiefs sometimes had as many as fi...
[ [ [ 2378, 1022, 3582, 2810, 3480, 980, 3555, 1893, 342, 1051, 3730, 3062, 356, 970, 1735, 2992, 2681, 3425, 447, 1021, 744, 3879, 1975, 3741, 834, 2632, ...
63.12
equator_63_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 28.933, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "whole streets in Port Louis were laid flat, wrecked. During a minute and a half the wind blew one hundred and twenty three miles an hour no official record made after that, when it may have reached a hundred and fifty. It cut down an obelisk. It carried ...
[ [ [ 3822, 1194, 945, 1310, 3620, 3820, 207, 2947, 436, 3149, 1833, 1425, 296, 3056, 2285, 2068, 1241, 1217, 2564, 2429, 2074, 3410, 1176, 3325, 3111, 3252, ...
99.36
equator_43_twain_64kb_0017
[ { "end": 16.34, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "But there were eighty of them. Where there are eighty nations and several hundred governments, fighting and quarreling must be the common business of life unity of purpose and policy are impossible out of such elements supremacy in the world cannot come."...
[ [ [ 567, 1003, 2714, 2226, 818, 554, 1119, 291, 1969, 317, 1661, 3829, 2513, 1234, 1991, 291, 2097, 3271, 1162, 1327, 374, 3645, 476, 927, 2622, 3142, ...
51.44
equator_37_twain_64kb_0013
[ { "end": 26.817, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "In this palatial ship the passengers dress for dinner. The ladies' toilettes make a fine display of color, and this is in keeping with the elegance of the vessel's furnishings and the flooding brilliancies of the electric light. On the stormy Atlantic on...
[ [ [ 4025, 3734, 1893, 3564, 193, 4008, 4025, 1393, 1889, 193, 4008, 597, 2012, 3803, 2229, 1260, 1928, 2924, 3105, 3634, 25, 2454, 3833, 2569, 1081, 1225, ...
57.84
equator_13_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 28.183, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "but there are times for mourning, and we will attend to this case further on. Other matters are pressing now. I will go down and set the machinery in motion in a quiet way and buy the crop. It will cheer the drooping spirits of the boys in a transitory w...
[ [ [ 4007, 3734, 2873, 3645, 3891, 857, 524, 324, 2616, 923, 2753, 284, 2779, 156, 2154, 3573, 1065, 2884, 1757, 1720, 2413, 1158, 2960, 1856, 1238, 2278, ...
49.2
equator_13_twain_64kb_0016
[ { "end": 18.985, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "tragedies have happened more than once. While I was in Sydney it was reported that a boy fell out of a boat in the mouth of the Parramatta River and screamed for help and a boy jumped overboard from another boat to save him from the assembling sharks, bu...
[ [ [ 3112, 3848, 1519, 2063, 1920, 790, 1373, 1037, 17, 2759, 3155, 325, 412, 1989, 2590, 1860, 1700, 2230, 883, 103, 1587, 1001, 2382, 3195, 337, 2924, ...
39.76
equator_58_twain_64kb_0013
[ { "end": 21.988, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "they came forth helpless but suspecting no treachery the Nana's host closed around them, and at a signal from a trumpet the massacre began about two hundred women and children were spared for the present, but all the men except three or four were killed....
[ [ [ 2984, 1327, 2208, 1991, 317, 3656, 4014, 3884, 3302, 514, 3891, 198, 1173, 2031, 3607, 1809, 2596, 3002, 1656, 984, 2473, 3778, 1873, 1188, 840, 482, ...
50.32
equator_58_twain_64kb_0000
[ { "end": 18.763, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This is Chapter fifty eight of FOLLOWING the Equator This Liebervaux recording is in the public domain. Following the equator by Mark Twain, Chapter fifty eight THE GREAT MUTINY THE Massacre in Cawnpore Terrible Scenes in Lucknow THE RESIDENCY The" ]...
[ [ [ 118, 2585, 3757, 399, 3307, 3604, 3318, 2629, 3108, 459, 3041, 198, 2412, 2205, 1894, 60, 2325, 60, 2278, 2070, 3067, 3108, 3642, 2943, 1614, 2871, ...
30.96
equator_48_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 16.954, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "They are kindly people, the natives. The face and the bearing that indicate a surly spirit and a bad heart seem to me to be so rare among Indians, so nearly nonexistent in fact, that I sometimes wondered if Thuggee wasn't a dream and not a reality." ...
[ [ [ 919, 1131, 3353, 1484, 962, 3454, 1131, 3433, 1530, 480, 519, 3405, 2005, 2822, 1505, 3022, 3377, 3036, 3524, 3179, 2130, 2609, 3189, 3630, 431, 3938, ...
31.84
equator_57_twain_64kb_0004
[ { "end": 25.845, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "As strikingly uniform as are the statistics of suicide, they are not any more so than are those of the tiger's annual output of slaughtered human beings in India. The government's work is quite uniform, too it about doubles the tiger's average. In six ye...
[ [ [ 1997, 2264, 1315, 342, 1492, 2051, 3773, 3029, 3794, 2139, 676, 2883, 601, 823, 2084, 3633, 3981, 3549, 2437, 2484, 1907, 3532, 1573, 1416, 4003, 3950, ...
51.28
equator_60_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 18.968, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "we drifted as far as Raalpindi, away up on the Afghan frontier. I think it was the Afghan frontier, but it may have been Herzegovina. It was around there somewhere, and down again to Delhi, to see the ancient architectural wonders there, and in old Delhi...
[ [ [ 919, 2226, 179, 4014, 3917, 317, 2577, 2716, 3153, 2585, 3974, 2058, 1694, 3807, 2084, 3233, 772, 605, 3284, 4092, 1072, 581, 2681, 2479, 669, 2765, ...
30.96
equator_27_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 27.705, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Another scheme was to drive the natives into a corner of the island and fence them in by a cordon of men placed in line across the country. But the natives managed to slip through constantly and continue their murders and arsons. The governor warned thes...
[ [ [ 3981, 43, 2585, 1693, 3176, 3525, 1459, 2637, 1472, 2379, 2647, 2924, 955, 729, 3176, 2448, 2701, 3205, 2820, 1172, 393, 1951, 987, 2168, 327, 3034, ...
56.8
equator_22_twain_64kb_0009
[ { "end": 21.681, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "As he walks through the bush his step is light, elastic, and noiseless. Every track on the earth catches his keen eye a leaf or fragment of a stick turned, or a blade of grass recently bent by the tread of one of the lower animals instantly arrests his a...
[ [ [ 1503, 3449, 1430, 2454, 2662, 274, 4051, 2083, 3921, 2895, 1126, 2855, 3749, 2805, 1120, 1574, 3024, 3243, 3401, 2154, 1984, 1384, 1704, 3311, 1213, 212...
56.56
equator_55_twain_64kb_0024
[ { "end": 27.568, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "through our preacher we do much of our praying by proxy. We do not whirl him around a stick as they do, but that is merely a detail. The swarm swung briskly by, hour after hour, a strange and striking pageant. It was wasted there, and it seemed a pity it...
[ [ [ 3917, 240, 3271, 2908, 2943, 3149, 3326, 1140, 1310, 3863, 1694, 337, 3488, 344, 2513, 3953, 3486, 3191, 3202, 1883, 2174, 3762, 3959, 166, 3624, 3099, ...
47.84
equator_67_twain_64kb_0020
[ { "end": 20.384, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Jamison should have had two hundred and forty thousand men, whereas he merely had five hundred and thirty boys. From a military point of view, backed by the facts of history, I conceive that Jamieson's military judgment was at fault. Another thing Jamiso...
[ [ [ 3015, 2669, 357, 2377, 1955, 2552, 3033, 1376, 3762, 3450, 2519, 1568, 242, 1578, 2311, 2738, 1736, 2648, 3118, 1390, 2280, 639, 2850, 4054, 744, 3566, ...
128.64
equator_06_twain_64kb_0010
[ { "end": 13.046, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Regulation thirty one forbids these coercions the law requires that he shall be allowed to go free and another clause of it requires the recruiter to send him ashore, per boat, because of the prevalence of sharks." ] } ]
[ [ [ 2325, 3514, 677, 4044, 2465, 355, 3741, 1039, 0, 502, 4028, 2125, 1924, 3931, 1449, 32, 2382, 1150, 1999, 1975, 2470, 3090, 102, 863, 1478, 2294, ...
13.04
equator_24_twain_64kb_0000
[ { "end": 25.026, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This is chapter twenty four of Following the Equator. This Liebervox recording is in the public domain FOLLOLLOWING THE Equator by MARK TWAIN, CHAPTER twenty four. Road TO BALARAT THE CITY GREAT GOLD STRIKE. eighteen fifty one. Rush for Australia. Great ...
[ [ [ 3736, 1530, 3422, 3555, 3589, 3731, 3153, 2536, 1842, 1126, 2542, 3108, 3891, 1079, 4007, 1393, 2728, 2070, 1119, 541, 483, 773, 2084, 3777, 4033, 1939,...
42
equator_50_twain_64kb_0011
[ { "end": 27.176, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "From a Hindoo statement quoted in Reverend Mr Parker's compact and lucid guide to Benares, I find that the site of the town was the beginning place of the creation. It was merely an upright lingam, at first, no larger than a stove pipe, and stood in the ...
[ [ [ 2695, 3178, 2359, 493, 2846, 1199, 504, 703, 926, 1588, 54, 1131, 291, 1484, 317, 197, 2981, 1229, 198, 1926, 3563, 3829, 1335, 1826, 1900, 1331, ...
37.68
equator_05_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 24.838, "start": 0.555, "text": [ "I shall always honor that great name for the salvation it brought me in this time of my sore need. It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation played with confidence stands a good chance to deceive. There are people who think that honesty is alway...
[ [ [ 4025, 1051, 1393, 597, 2175, 2943, 3794, 654, 1530, 3716, 1582, 1310, 654, 1530, 1614, 2007, 2855, 2929, 1842, 2682, 2339, 3555, 3642, 2149, 385, 3353, ...
31.36
equator_40_twain_64kb_0006
[ { "end": 23.285, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Presently there was a slight stir among the score of persons present, and all moved reverently out of the path and ceased from talking. A funeral procession entered the great gate, marching to and two, and moved silently by toward the tower. The corpse l...
[ [ [ 2739, 337, 2930, 3807, 1524, 246, 3302, 3163, 2497, 2003, 881, 3890, 437, 3624, 2756, 3259, 1233, 1789, 3748, 3118, 3214, 3646, 2711, 3721, 2442, 421, ...
41.28
equator_50_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 28.524, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "missionaries need to be well equipped with hope and confidence, and this equipment they seem to have always had in all parts of the world. Mr Parker has it it enables him to get a favourable outlook out of statistics which might add up differently with o...
[ [ [ 1991, 2205, 3271, 2685, 3411, 71, 3564, 39, 207, 3524, 3549, 2577, 68, 2057, 386, 1913, 3729, 2036, 2982, 3651, 3748, 3991, 3265, 2962, 3607, 3200, ...
57.76
equator_60_twain_64kb_0020
[ { "end": 7.244, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "and the city itself is a curiosity. Any Indian city is that, but this one is not like any other that we saw," ] }, { "end": 35.691, "start": 7.585, "text": [ "it is shut up in a lofty turreted wall the main body of it is divided ...
[ [ [ 1236, 2682, 3656, 2226, 54, 319, 3622, 1281, 1919, 54, 2207, 3819, 2443, 1856, 2402, 3687, 1714, 1021, 2773, 2645, 663, 1640, 3507, 1860, 2259, 2130, ...
56.88
equator_65_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 23.712, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "It all seemed strange, incredible, impossible but La Troppe knew the race he knew the powerful attraction of unattractiveness he knew that no life could be imagined how soever comfortless and forbidding but somebody would want to try it. This parent esta...
[ [ [ 291, 3622, 3353, 1257, 2945, 319, 2639, 2513, 1713, 962, 319, 3153, 476, 3645, 2525, 505, 4065, 1209, 974, 2156, 875, 3328, 2778, 3046, 3813, 166, ...
54.48
equator_14_twain_64kb_0011
[ { "end": 27.312, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "We saw birds, but not a kangaroo, not an Emu, not an Ornithrynchus, not a lecturer, not a native indeed, the land seemed quite destitute of game but I have misused the word native in Australia it is applied to Australian born whites only. I should have s...
[ [ [ 1663, 3555, 3271, 392, 554, 2692, 524, 3397, 3302, 2183, 1152, 2935, 3353, 4014, 962, 3739, 2781, 519, 3405, 2616, 3636, 293, 1999, 906, 3686, 2924, ...
47.52
equator_36_twain_64kb_0000
[ { "end": 29.633, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This is Chapter thirty six of FOLLOWING the Equator this Liebervox recording is in the public domain FOLLOWING the Equator by Mark Twain CHAPTER thirty six THE POEMS OF MRS. Moore. The Sad Fate of William Upson. A Fellow Traveller Imitating the Prince of...
[ [ [ 118, 3154, 316, 2454, 3582, 2436, 924, 1447, 3913, 3915, 1864, 2911, 1371, 3794, 2109, 2278, 2070, 1126, 2058, 2296, 2728, 2264, 1694, 342, 2083, 661, ...
41.68
equator_58_twain_64kb_0024
[ { "end": 11.954, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "ten days before the Outbreak, may tenth, of the mutiny, all was serene at Lucknow, the huge capital of Ood, the kingdom which had recently been seized by the India Company," ] }, { "end": 34.753, "start": 12.585, "text": [ "ther...
[ [ [ 480, 4007, 60, 342, 2264, 589, 4007, 2296, 3474, 3620, 1997, 3370, 1208, 3644, 1897, 3538, 2484, 2949, 347, 2169, 52, 3038, 2471, 768, 3944, 3851, ...
86
equator_46_twain_64kb_0011
[ { "end": 29.394, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "to save his neck was informer and furnished these facts. Several things are noticeable about his resume. one. Business brevity. two. Absence of emotion. three. Smallness of the parties encountered by the sixty. four. Variety in character and quality of t...
[ [ [ 584, 3405, 3095, 1400, 1477, 1242, 1364, 2889, 2733, 1556, 339, 1766, 1522, 1403, 3857, 2278, 3655, 2236, 3006, 1000, 2031, 1897, 3630, 2548, 1260, 2734...
58.56
equator_63_twain_64kb_0016
[ { "end": 28.268, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "The Sandwich Islands remain my ideal of the perfect thing in the matter of tropical islands. I would add another store to Mauna Loa's sixteen thousand feet if I could, and make it particularly bold and steep and craggy and forbidding and snowy and I woul...
[ [ [ 1759, 1383, 1661, 1003, 3896, 2339, 2908, 1269, 2226, 1991, 1152, 240, 3397, 2908, 3981, 2337, 587, 2542, 597, 3863, 2440, 2287, 1345, 685, 1814, 3621, ...
32.72
equator_18_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 22.927, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "color everywhere, and the air fine and fresh, the skies blue, and not a shred of cloud to mar the downpour of the brilliant sunshine and finally the mountain gateway opened, and the immense plain lay spread out below and stretching away into dim distance...
[ [ [ 342, 2058, 3642, 1700, 1893, 3755, 2754, 3689, 3829, 490, 1465, 382, 3420, 2310, 1267, 4082, 2169, 77, 3707, 1649, 2144, 2227, 3487, 1514, 1319, 1665, ...
50.24
equator_47_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 14.701, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "so many, many times this official report leaves one's curiosity unsatisfied. For instance, here is a little paragraph out of the record of a certain band of a hundred and ninety three thugs which has that defect" ] }, { "end": 32.346, "st...
[ [ [ 3794, 3498, 975, 1339, 985, 3651, 344, 1874, 3150, 2077, 664, 2763, 2664, 2033, 334, 3287, 2750, 2849, 3410, 3078, 293, 464, 3410, 456, 409, 2960, ...
47.92
equator_64_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 15.725, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "a bold headland, precipitous wall, a hundred and fifty feet high, very strong, red color, stretching a mile or so. A man said it was Portuguese blood battle fought here with the natives last year. I think this doubtful." ] }, { "end": 35.401,...
[ [ [ 909, 3108, 3753, 3153, 1229, 4008, 1051, 2005, 1022, 2430, 3287, 2114, 2112, 227, 3539, 470, 893, 2647, 1710, 480, 664, 1328, 3470, 1993, 873, 394, ...
53.68
equator_44_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 24.65, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "january thirtieth What a spectacle the railway station was at train time It was a very large station, yet when we arrived it seemed as if the whole world was present half of it inside, the other half outside, and both halves bearing mountainous head loads...
[ [ [ 3636, 1435, 2999, 2101, 1967, 2798, 3857, 1355, 1022, 2688, 968, 1579, 705, 325, 3717, 2563, 3266, 2322, 814, 559, 305, 1999, 1509, 3400, 3920, 2881, ...
56.48
equator_54_twain_64kb_0000
[ { "end": 24.36, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This is Chapter fifty four of Following the Equator. This Lieberwaux recording is in the public domain FOLLOWING THE Equator by Mark Twain, CHAPTER fifty four BY RAIL TO CALCUTA. POPULATION THE CITY OF PALACES. A Fluted Candlestick, OCTERLONEY. Newspaper ...
[ [ [ 1125, 1524, 654, 3411, 2755, 1867, 193, 677, 869, 2616, 1889, 3620, 126, 3251, 2616, 3439, 2895, 1926, 869, 4025, 2696, 3887, 3314, 2382, 153, 1550, ...
55.84
equator_29_twain_64kb_0011
[ { "end": 23.968, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Hobart has a peculiarity it is the neatest town that the sun shines on and I incline to believe that it is also the cleanest. However that may be, its supremacy in neatness is not to be questioned. There cannot be another town in the world that has no sh...
[ [ [ 3983, 1383, 3271, 1119, 1418, 2339, 2908, 3292, 926, 3387, 3433, 3710, 3068, 4090, 909, 2402, 3108, 1603, 860, 2742, 2227, 4082, 847, 273, 3044, 1925, ...
92.32
equator_43_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 29.906, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Famine is India's specialty elsewhere famines are inconsequential incidents in India they are devastating cataclysms in one case they annihilate hundreds in the other millions. India has two million gods and worships them all in religion all other countr...
[ [ [ 2194, 3093, 3503, 478, 1769, 1804, 1430, 114, 3824, 304, 3609, 3658, 295, 506, 352, 2382, 2920, 3328, 1301, 3112, 1861, 1992, 309, 3905, 3508, 1225, ...
47.12
equator_55_twain_64kb_0004
[ { "end": 20.52, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "villages no end of villages, not three hundred yards apart, and dozens and dozens of them in sight all the time. A mighty city, hundreds of miles long, hundreds of miles broad, made all of villages, the biggest city on the earth, and as populous as a Euro...
[ [ [ 1555, 1115, 446, 3931, 1724, 795, 537, 564, 1337, 746, 3467, 1408, 4038, 402, 3565, 1649, 906, 30, 640, 3411, 2345, 2296, 2867, 1050, 109, 1463, 4...
48.56
equator_37_twain_64kb_0006
[ { "end": 18.899, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "lying here at anchor all day Albany, King George's Sound, Western Australia. It is a perfectly land locked harbor, or roadstead, spacious to look at, but not deep water. Desolate looking rocks and scarred hills plenty of ships arriving now, rushing to th...
[ [ [ 632, 562, 4075, 722, 3761, 3922, 3061, 2778, 2766, 2222, 3465, 3952, 3179, 701, 952, 1373, 2424, 1221, 1427, 1797, 1630, 3502, 3124, 970, 2899, 2036, ...
55.44
equator_69_twain_64kb_0009
[ { "end": 17.773, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Originally the diamond deposits were the property of the Orange Free State but a judicious rectification of the boundary line shifted them over into the British territory of Cape Colony. A high official of the Free State told me that the sum of four hund...
[ [ [ 3564, 2662, 411, 2793, 3624, 1644, 1600, 864, 2471, 1244, 2962, 2768, 835, 3468, 185, 2606, 650, 1729, 2867, 3994, 2599, 546, 1775, 1382, 2976, 2496, ...
46.96
equator_02_twain_64kb_0021
[ { "end": 23.404, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Mary was reaching for the lap robe Brown must decide. There was no time to be lost. Of course none but a happy ending of the story would be accepted by the jury the Finnish must find Brown in high credit with the ladies, his behavior without blemish, his...
[ [ [ 773, 3564, 547, 959, 561, 166, 3803, 645, 560, 1866, 1753, 3293, 2532, 3971, 1506, 2854, 826, 3511, 2947, 3900, 2054, 1101, 2879, 2104, 1269, 1646, ...
54.32
equator_65_twain_64kb_0008
[ { "end": 15.009, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "everything neat and trim and clean like the town the loveliest trees and the greatest variety I have ever seen anywhere except approaching Darjeeling. Have not heard any one call Natal the garden of South Africa, but that is what it probably is." ] ...
[ [ [ 3911, 3322, 1750, 972, 1787, 1131, 3549, 2868, 1874, 3333, 3011, 2154, 2606, 433, 1931, 308, 1339, 971, 3945, 3303, 1697, 3303, 3089, 639, 1744, 1779, ...
55.92
equator_62_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 29.258, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "then I happen to notice the figures of the day's run. On that day there happened to be talk at dinner about the speed of modern ships. I was the only passenger present who knew this ship's gate. Necessarily the Atlantic custom of betting on the ship's ru...
[ [ [ 566, 1713, 2129, 554, 3819, 1175, 1815, 2662, 2226, 3583, 2380, 71, 1554, 1024, 2475, 1240, 5, 3342, 2401, 2354, 1550, 2497, 2849, 1261, 3258, 1947, ...
36.8
equator_46_twain_64kb_0008
[ { "end": 18.183, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Considering their numbers, their catch was not extraordinary, particularly when you consider that they were not in the least fastidious, but took anybody they could get, whether rich or poor, and sometimes even killed children. Now and then they killed w...
[ [ [ 183, 1298, 3735, 574, 2708, 3651, 1121, 2512, 1345, 3293, 380, 2658, 3293, 929, 524, 405, 320, 1497, 3229, 1064, 1016, 1436, 3610, 4013, 3125, 3934, ...
47.12
equator_48_twain_64kb_0014
[ { "end": 24.138, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "He assured her that it was his desire and duty to save her, and to urge her to live, and to keep her family from the disgrace of being thought her murderers. But she said she, was not afraid of their being thought so that they had all, like good children...
[ [ [ 3175, 1082, 3571, 2908, 675, 2550, 207, 2984, 1003, 2077, 3749, 1234, 3950, 676, 3014, 4015, 1842, 3948, 2981, 480, 785, 3945, 2867, 2696, 3641, 3507, ...
73.52
equator_69_twain_64kb_0005
[ { "end": 29.872, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "there are many strange things in human history one of the strangest is that the sparkling diamonds laid there so long without exciting any one's interest. The revelation came at last by accident. In a boar's hut out in the wide solitude of the plains, a ...
[ [ [ 1169, 3794, 374, 869, 2005, 2166, 1051, 3589, 2278, 2385, 3329, 3040, 1021, 405, 2232, 1305, 2783, 3817, 772, 2765, 1087, 2392, 3965, 1773, 3146, 2234, ...
68
equator_38_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 23.78, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Our rooms were high up on the front a white man he was a burly German went up with us and brought three natives along to see to arranging things. About fourteen others followed in procession, with the hand baggage. Each carried an article, and only one a ...
[ [ [ 962, 2718, 3290, 3583, 2272, 1079, 3514, 985, 342, 1288, 1130, 1520, 3887, 2072, 2233, 3441, 3949, 1084, 1523, 1241, 2200, 1247, 2509, 3741, 857, 1159, ...
209.76
equator_23_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 20.794, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Horsham, october seventeenth. At the hotel the weather divine. Across the way, in front of the London bank of Australia, is a very handsome cottonwood it is in opulent leaf, and every leaf perfect the full power of the onrushing spring is upon it, and I ...
[ [ [ 3794, 710, 2991, 3794, 94, 3778, 1194, 3986, 2665, 4082, 15, 2500, 3011, 3412, 31, 1376, 3153, 2556, 3665, 2394, 2759, 838, 1110, 1650, 1868, 1463, ...
20.8
equator_67_twain_64kb_0004
[ { "end": 12.602, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Besides, I hope I am mistaken. For, if I am, then there is argument that the reformers were privately not serious, but were only trying to scare the Boer government into granting the desired reforms" ] }, { "end": 37.108, "start": 13.046,...
[ [ [ 1524, 2700, 1368, 3913, 671, 3007, 4033, 3379, 3472, 797, 3695, 2517, 3510, 895, 1972, 1105, 125, 1828, 247, 421, 741, 331, 3844, 3202, 339, 3289, ...
258.08
equator_24_twain_64kb_0001
[ { "end": 13.609, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Frequently in Australia one has cloud effects of an unfamiliar sort. We had this kind of scenery finely staged all the way to Ballarat consequently we saw more sky than country on that journey," ] }, { "end": 39.718, "start": 14.138, ...
[ [ [ 3642, 1449, 3013, 2462, 1335, 2311, 1900, 2208, 926, 3566, 1446, 3140, 793, 2015, 1293, 3099, 1483, 3468, 598, 3555, 611, 121, 3122, 1345, 378, 3380, ...
52.32
equator_63_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 24.445, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "This daily paper has a meteorological report which tells you what the weather was day before yesterday. One is never pestered by a beggar or a pedlar in this town, so far as I can see. This is pleasantly different from India. april twenty. To such as bel...
[ [ [ 524, 2287, 3731, 2855, 517, 3480, 2458, 1926, 342, 2264, 260, 3568, 476, 2728, 3620, 1126, 1714, 3777, 227, 4, 1217, 2992, 1416, 1938, 2077, 430, ...
39.04
equator_55_twain_64kb_0003
[ { "end": 21.817, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "and there are frequent groves of palm and an effective accent is given to the landscape by isolated individuals of this picturesque family, towering, clean stemmed, their plumes broken and hanging ragged nature's imitation of an umbrella that has been ou...
[ [ [ 919, 1162, 2208, 1131, 3619, 2659, 514, 2967, 2270, 2953, 1246, 3321, 2484, 4092, 924, 1103, 3195, 2150, 955, 2099, 2244, 1431, 1724, 2614, 308, 2695, ...
37.44
equator_17_twain_64kb_0009
[ { "end": 25.742, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "a luminous sagacity, and a minuteness and accuracy of observation in the matter of detective work not found in nearly so remarkable a degree in any other people white or colored. In an official account of the blacks of Australia, published by the Governm...
[ [ [ 566, 2953, 3292, 2682, 2570, 2585, 2878, 463, 2397, 2990, 3363, 2878, 89, 1880, 3986, 2885, 744, 4012, 2440, 3137, 3280, 2804, 3538, 486, 2471, 3127, ...
44.8
equator_69_twain_64kb_0022
[ { "end": 21.442, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "One may take his choice. They are all the same price. One fact is sure he keeps his prominence and a vast following, no matter what he does. He deceives the Duke of Fife it is the Duke's word but that does not destroy the Duke's loyalty to him. He tricks...
[ [ [ 4085, 4025, 2536, 2855, 1229, 2372, 2325, 654, 2278, 2616, 4083, 2368, 654, 241, 2070, 547, 2058, 2296, 1435, 4007, 2303, 356, 2289, 3652, 2233, 3387, ...
84.08
equator_18_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 23.08, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "There was another tree of striking aspect, a kind of pine, we were told its foliage was as fine as hair, apparently, and its mass sphere itself above the naked straight stem like an explosion of misty smoke. It was not a sociable sort it did not gather in...
[ [ [ 675, 926, 179, 3612, 3057, 1152, 2935, 2286, 3896, 1904, 1199, 2781, 2139, 2981, 1051, 1867, 1567, 3030, 435, 2234, 539, 1087, 3912, 929, 1027, 1993, ...
166.64
equator_51_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 21.049, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "I do not claim that the pilgrims do their acts of worship in the order and sequence above charted out in this itinerary of mine, but I think logic suggests that they ought to do so. Instead of a helter skelter worship, we then have a definite starting pl...
[ [ [ 4025, 1051, 3029, 597, 3714, 2991, 1051, 2331, 541, 3620, 2296, 4007, 2070, 1933, 1679, 3938, 577, 2280, 3148, 1185, 1662, 2092, 1782, 466, 3737, 3943, ...
134
equator_49_twain_64kb_0017
[ { "end": 22.261, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "The bungalows, dwellings, stand well back in the seclusion and privacy of large enclosed compounds private grounds, as we should say and in the shade and shelter of trees. Even the photographer and the prosperous merchant ply their industries in the eleg...
[ [ [ 2412, 243, 3739, 3493, 1663, 2887, 1484, 2339, 2311, 1842, 1281, 3205, 818, 1078, 1131, 3884, 3604, 2577, 1148, 2855, 2070, 1721, 1051, 2083, 821, 1694,...
43.2
equator_46_twain_64kb_0017
[ { "end": 20.401, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "after murdering four sepoys, going on toward Indor, met four strolling players, and persuaded them to come with us, on the pretense that we would see their performance at the next stage, murdered them at a temple near Bopal. Second instance At Deohuti, j...
[ [ [ 1716, 1724, 1843, 8, 3425, 339, 2288, 2551, 422, 2478, 2421, 1091, 2738, 1898, 2911, 2278, 258, 3736, 1257, 740, 2270, 110, 2776, 110, 3419, 795, ...
20.4
equator_50_twain_64kb_0020
[ { "end": 25.145, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Holy Kashi, hail to the Hail, hail, hail The weary pilgrim, scarcely able to stand with age and weakness, blinded by the dust and heat, and almost dead with fatigue, crawls out of the oven like railway carriage and as soon as his feet touch the ground he...
[ [ [ 2058, 710, 3914, 3564, 94, 1991, 1162, 1078, 486, 4082, 2249, 976, 1880, 2061, 223, 2957, 3298, 352, 1979, 2722, 952, 1469, 3929, 1550, 3628, 809, ...
59.28
equator_39_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 13.524, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "As I was saying, the bearer's recommendations were all from American tourists, and Saint Peter would have admitted him to the fields of the blessed on them I mean if he is as unfamiliar with our people and our ways as I suppose he is" ] } ]
[ [ [ 1663, 3913, 95, 1002, 3983, 675, 1234, 1630, 2359, 554, 2476, 3205, 3014, 3950, 2953, 2513, 4014, 3480, 2139, 3645, 1926, 1541, 4074, 2235, 3549, 3415, ...
13.52
equator_55_twain_64kb_0015
[ { "end": 28.166, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "After a while we stopped at a little wooden coop of a station just within the curtain of the sombre jungle a place with a deep and dense forest of great trees and scrub and vines all about it. The Royal Bengal tiger is in great force there, and is very b...
[ [ [ 209, 829, 2987, 1591, 1497, 3112, 1021, 2477, 840, 228, 1400, 472, 3108, 2682, 3950, 1901, 286, 2111, 3522, 2670, 2117, 240, 3682, 1977, 1972, 1288, ...
28.16
equator_50_twain_64kb_0016
[ { "end": 19.258, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion. I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindoo theology, but the difficulties were too great, the matter was too intricate even the mere A B C of it is...
[ [ [ 3353, 1131, 3599, 926, 962, 2337, 426, 476, 3108, 91, 91, 2180, 242, 2498, 1767, 3341, 3303, 1199, 639, 2876, 3545, 3070, 3407, 3885, 3719, 2995, ...
32.96
equator_59_twain_64kb_0025
[ { "end": 20.384, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "supported by colonnades of moonlight. It is a mistake for a person with an unregulated imagination to go and look at an illustrious world's wonder. I suppose that many, many years ago I gathered the idea that the Taj's place in the achievements of man wa...
[ [ [ 2558, 43, 2333, 1855, 1004, 2664, 3880, 1823, 1674, 3452, 2702, 863, 576, 1508, 3040, 120, 870, 926, 1078, 955, 1109, 3088, 331, 3470, 3039, 1972, ...
36.24
equator_43_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 28.336, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "the dupe sees no objection, and on the appointed day receives RS seven thousand from the swindler, which he hands over to the confederate. The latter is profuse in his thanks, and executes a promissory note for RS ten thousand, payable to bearer. The swi...
[ [ [ 2294, 1003, 1152, 1873, 3896, 1430, 2097, 1912, 3303, 2935, 3599, 2639, 1229, 2278, 3405, 1694, 3733, 2688, 2543, 1319, 31, 2523, 1037, 753, 301, 1884, ...
74.64
equator_42_twain_64kb_0008
[ { "end": 24.394, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "Another says that three hundred and twenty five thousand of the people have fled the city and are carrying the plague to the country. Three days later comes the news The population is reduced by half. The refugees have carried the disease to Karachi two ...
[ [ [ 1603, 3555, 3014, 1842, 1759, 1588, 2639, 2229, 1842, 2154, 1661, 2781, 2139, 403, 2264, 2333, 2484, 2103, 2280, 800, 970, 1429, 2414, 1261, 3870, 3196,...
24.4
equator_33_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 19.104, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "a harmless old laboring man came wandering along and as his presence was an embarrassment, they choked him, hid him, and then resumed their watch for the four. They had to wait awhile, but eventually everything turned out as they desired. That dark episo...
[ [ [ 566, 2953, 1679, 317, 2737, 1339, 3037, 3689, 3356, 1948, 369, 2904, 3045, 3462, 3519, 3254, 3906, 1223, 2134, 3383, 1131, 3967, 210, 3130, 3373, 699, ...
53.2
equator_49_twain_64kb_0007
[ { "end": 26.766, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "where there are Mohammedans there are generally a few sorry tombs outside the village that have a decayed and neglected look. The villages interested me because of things which Major Sleman says about them in his books particularly what he says about the...
[ [ [ 2183, 1131, 3739, 3205, 1849, 3292, 823, 3450, 70, 3794, 476, 869, 2055, 586, 2084, 214, 3363, 3554, 3157, 1176, 3686, 1006, 3090, 603, 1135, 2608, ...
33.28
equator_68_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 24.258, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "The Duke of Fife has borne testimony that Mr Rhodes deceived him. That is also what Mr Rhodes did with the Reformers. He got them into trouble, and then stayed out himself. A judicious man he has always been that. As to this there was a moment of doubt o...
[ [ [ 1152, 718, 3292, 1440, 3166, 2442, 3829, 3068, 3864, 392, 888, 541, 480, 1614, 3794, 2296, 2281, 3543, 3488, 3389, 1857, 2358, 201, 2380, 4044, 2450, ...
50
equator_64_twain_64kb_0004
[ { "end": 16.51, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "a fair great ship in sight, almost the first we have seen in these weeks of lonely voyaging. We are now in the Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and South Africa, sailing straight west for Delagoa Bay. Last night the burly chief engineer, middle aged...
[ [ [ 1582, 3555, 3739, 2205, 2395, 1759, 1169, 3027, 597, 617, 1041, 3166, 149, 2052, 3932, 2711, 598, 3748, 2566, 55, 3864, 1148, 3898, 1234, 1496, 3413, ...
84.4
equator_65_twain_64kb_0002
[ { "end": 9.275, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "evening. At four PM it was unpleasantly warm. Half hour after sunset one needed a spring overcoat by eight a winter one." ] } ]
[ [ [ 1167, 1051, 1441, 3568, 2798, 1592, 1901, 1797, 3486, 2681, 519, 3468, 538, 1003, 73, 1652, 1183, 259, 1601, 1416, 3582, 668, 733, 2850, 1273, 357, ...
9.28
equator_55_twain_64kb_0012
[ { "end": 11.92, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "without complaint or murmur, the drowned women patiently carried out the orders, lifting the immense baskets of soggy wrung out clothing into the cart and stowing them to the man's satisfaction" ] } ]
[ [ [ 1730, 4025, 3067, 2855, 2175, 1126, 4025, 2296, 342, 2264, 70, 3241, 713, 2904, 321, 2779, 262, 955, 3306, 698, 521, 2890, 755, 3487, 709, 1024, 3...
11.92