That day the Nautilus crossed a singular part of the Atlantic Ocean. No one can be ignorant of the existence of a current of warm
The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, “the great sea” of the Hebrews, “the sea” of the Greeks, the “mare nostrum” of the Romans, bordered
The next day I woke with my head singularly clear. To my great surprise, I was in my own room. My companions, no doubt, had
The next morning, the 18th of November, I had quite recovered from my fatigues of the day before, and I went up on to the
The Astronomer said, “You think the noise was their ship landing?” “Don’t you think it could be?” “If it were, they may all be dead.”
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I was much impressed on touching land. Ned Land tried the soil with his feet, as if to take possession of it. However, it was
This cell was, to speak correctly, the arsenal and wardrobe of the Nautilus. A dozen diving apparatuses hung from the partition waiting our use. Ned
A moment after we were seated on a divan in the saloon smoking. The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and
It was different, looking at them as though they were “people.” As animals, they had been interesting; as “people,” horrible. Their eyes, which were neutral
Lunch was half over when Slim dashed into the dining room. For a moment, he stood abashed, and then he said in what was almost
The swaying had come to a halt and it was dark. The Explorer was not comfortable in the alien air. It felt as thick as
The panels had closed on this dreadful vision, but light had not returned to the saloon: all was silence and darkness within the Nautilus. At
The Atlantic! a vast sheet of water whose superficial area covers twenty-five millions of square miles, the length of which is nine thousand miles, with
On the 28th of February, when at noon the Nautilus came to the surface of the sea, in 9@ 4′ N. lat., there was land
The Merchant said, “Will we be taking off soon?” “Half an hour,” said the Explorer. It was going to be a lonely trip back. All
The Industrialist stared, looked at the Astronomer, turned to stare again. “Those?” “Those,” said the Astronomer. “I have no doubt we appear strange and repulsive
Thus ends the voyage under the seas. What passed during that night– how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom– how Ned Land,
The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange
In consequence of the storm, we had been thrown eastward once more. All hope of escape on the shores of New York or St. Lawrence
This dreadful scene on April 20 none of us will ever be able to forget. I wrote it up in a state of intense excitement.