Korsika is 'n selfstandige naamwoord wat verwys na 'n bergagtige eiland in die Middellandse See, suidoos van Frankryk. Dit is 'n administratiewe streek van Frankryk en het 'n unieke kultuur, taal en geskiedenis.
La Jeune Amélie left it three-quarters of a league to the larboard and kept on for Corsica.
Franz was sitting on the spot where he was on the previous evening when his mysterious host had invited him to supper and he saw the little yacht, now like a sea-gull on the wave, continuing her flight towards Corsica.
The master was to get all this out of Leghorn free of duties, and land it on the shores of Corsica, where certain speculators undertook to forward the cargo to France.
The first was just disappearing in the straits of Bonifacio the other, following an opposite direction, was about to round the Island of Corsica.
The abbé did not know the Island of Monte Cristo but Dantès knew it, and had often passed it, situated twenty-five miles from Pianosa, between Corsica and the Island of Elba, and had once touched there.
The very name assumed by his host of Monte Cristo and again repeated by the landlord of the Hôtel de Londres, abundantly proved to him that his island friend was playing his philanthropic part on the shores of Piombino, Civita Vecchia, Ostia, and Gaëta, as on those of Corsica, Tuscany, and Spain and further, Franz bethought him of having heard his singular entertainer speak both of Tunis and Palermo, proving thereby how largely his circle of acquaintances extended.
Some insisted she was making for Corsica, others the Island of Elba bets were offered to any amount that she was bound for Spain while Africa was positively reported by many persons as her intended course but no one thought of Monte Cristo.
They were within fifteen miles of Monte Cristo when the sun began to set behind Corsica, whose mountains appeared against the sky, showing their rugged peaks in bold relief this mass of rock, like the giant Adamastor, rose dead ahead, a formidable barrier, and intercepting the light that gilded its massive peaks so that the voyagers were in shadow.
In fact, the pursuing vessel had almost overtaken them when, fortunately, night came on, and enabled them to double the Cape of Corsica, and so elude all further pursuit.
But it was not upon Corsica, the very houses of which he could distinguish or on Sardinia or on the Island of Elba, with its historical associations or upon the almost imperceptible line that to the experienced eye of a sailor alone revealed the coast of Genoa the proud, and Leghorn the commercial, that he gazed.
