Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

tened on to the platform. Three miles to the south the dim outline of Pelusium was to be seen.

e Canadian, in a slightly jovia

g on its surfac

Conseil, "thi

a few minutes we have pass

eve it," repli

ounds off to the south is the Egyptian coast. And you who have such goo

an looked

man. We are in the Mediterranean. Good! Now, if you please, le

to let him talk, as he wished it; so we all three went and sat down ne

sten; what have

ore Captain Nemo's caprices drag us once more to the bottom of the

erty of my companions, but I certainl

k of submarine depths in its very element. Should I ever again have such an opportunity of observing the wonders of the ocean? No, c

d of being on board? Are you sorry that dest

ments without answering. Then

s. I shall be glad to have made it; but, now that it

ome to an

e and

or, rather, I suppose it will end when t

hope for?" deman

well six months hence as now by w

e shall we be in six months, i

the air, or as an express on the land. It does not fear frequented seas; who can say that it may not be

foundation. You speak in the future, `We shall be there! we shall be h

lt myself beaten on that ground. I knew no

ossibility: if Captain Nemo should this day

know," I

made you this day was never to

aptain Nemo's good-will. Common prudence forbids him to set us at liberty. On the o

nnax, that is

, and our first attempt must succeed; if it fails, we shall

all attempts at flight, whether in two years' time, or in two days'. But the ques

you tell me what you mean

ght, will bring the Nautilus a short

y and save yours

he vessel was floating at the time. Not if the ban

n that

s worked. We must get inside, and the bolts once drawn, we shall come to the surfa

portunity; but do not forget

not forg

ou like to know what I

ly, M. A

-I think that this favourable oppo

y n

iven up all hope of regaining our liberty, and he will be on his

ed Ned Land, shaking

word on the subject. The day that you are ready, come and l

equented seas? or did he only wish to hide himself from the numerous vessels, of all nations, which ploughed the Mediterranean? I could not tell; but we were oftener between waters and far from the coast. Or, if the N

of Carpathos, one of the Sporades, by Cap

io Neptuni g

eus Pr

to a spot on t

flocks, now the Island of Scarpanto, situated between Rhodes and Crete.

e course of the Nautilus, I found that we were going towards Candia, the ancient Isle of Crete. At the time I embarked on the Abraham Lincoln, the whole of this island had risen in insurrection a

preoccupied. Then, contrary to his custom, he ordered both panels to be opened, and, going from one to the other, observed the mass

hern purse. It was not a body abandoned to the waves; it was a living man, swim

in Nemo, and in an agi

d! He must be sav

wer me, but came and le

ith his face flattened against

e diver answered with his hand, mounted immediately t

ca. He is well known in all the Cyclades. A bold diver! water is his element, and he lives

w him, C

t, M. A

nel of the saloon. Near this piece of furniture, I saw a chest bound with iron, on the

y presence, opened the piece of furniture, a so

al, which represented an enormous sum? Where did the Captain

rranged them methodically in the chest, which he filled entirely. I estimated th

tain wrote an address on the lid, in charact

rs of the crew. Four men appeared, and, not without some trouble, pushed the chest out

, Captain Nemo

e saying, si

ing nothin

ill allow me, I will

turned and le

ng link between the apparition of the diver and the chest filled with gold. Soon, I felt by certain mo

stening the pinnace and launching it upon the waves. For one in

was renewed; the boat was hoisted on board, replaced in i

their address. To what point of the contin

s of the night, which had excited my curiosity to the highes

take his millions t

oment-(ought I to attribute it to some peculiar idiosyncrasy)-I felt so great a heat that I was obliged to take off my coat. It was strange, for we were under low latitudes; and even the

e temperature rose to such

fire on board?

mo entered; he approached the thermometer

-two d

I replied; "and if it gets m

not get better if

ce it as you

rther from the stove

outward

floating in a curre

sible!" I

oo

s curling amid the waves, which boiled like water in a copper. I placed my hand on o

re we?"

he Captain. "I wished to give you a sight of

at the formation of thes

time to our days the Plutonian work has been suspended. But on the 3rd of February, 1866, a new island, which they named George Island, emerged from the midst of the sulphurous vapour near Nea Kamenni, and settled again the 6th of the same month. Seven days after, the 13th of February, the Island of Aphroessa appeared, leaving between Nea Kamenni and itself a canal ten yards broad. I was in these seas when the phenomenon

which we are at th

owing me a map of the Archipelago. "Yo

d, owing to the presence of salts of iron. In spite of the ship's being hermetically sealed, an insupportable smell of sulphur filled the sa

r in this boiling water

dent," replied the i

ter of an hour after we were breathing fresh air on the surface. The thought then struck me that, if Ned La

andria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some dis