Chapter 9 The next morning, the 19th of February, I saw the Canadian enter my room. I expected this visit. He looked very disappointed.“Well, sir?” said he.“Well, Ned, fortune was against us yesterday.”“Yes; that Captain must needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leaving his vessel.”“Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers.”“His bankers!”“Or […]

Chapter 8 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 a mean breadth of two thousand seven hundred – an ocean whose parallel winding shores embrace an immense circumference, watered by the largest rivers of the world, the

Chapter 7 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 by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground

Chapter 6 The next day, the 12th of February, at the dawn of day, the Nautilus rose to the surface. I hastened on to the platform. Three miles to the south the dim outline of Pelusium was to be seen. A torrent had carried us from one sea to another. About seven o’clock Ned and

Chapter 5 That same evening, in 21° 30’ N. lat., the Nautilus floated on the surface of the sea, approaching the Arabian coast. I saw Djeddah, the most important counting-house of Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and India. I distinguished clearly enough its buildings, the vessels anchored at the quays, and those whose draught of water obliged

Chapter 4 In the course of the day of the 29th of January, the island of Ceylon disappeared under the horizon, and the Nautilus, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, slid into the labyrinth of canals which separate the Maldives from the Indian Laccadives. It coasted even the Island of Kiltan, a land

Chapter 3 The next morning at four o’clock I was awakened by the steward whom Captain Nemo had placed at my service. I rose hurriedly, dressed, and went into the saloon.Captain Nemo was awaiting me.“M. Aronnax,” said he, “are you ready to start?”“I am ready.”“Then please to follow me.”“And my companions, Captain?”“They have been told

Chapter 2 On the 28th of January, when at noon the Nautilus came to the surface of the sea, in 9° 4’ N. lat., there was land in sight about eight miles to westward. The first thing I noticed was a range of mountains about two thousand feet high, the shapes of which were most

Chapter 1 We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo’s life was passing, even to his grave, which he had

Chapter 23 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 been reinstated in their cabin, without having perceived it any more than I. Of what had passed during the night they were as ignorant as I was, and

Chapter 22 The following day, 10th January, the Nautilus continued her course between two seas, but with such remarkable speed that I could not estimate it at less than thirty-five miles an hour. The rapidity of her screw was such that I could neither follow nor count its revolutions. When I reflected that this marvellous

Chapter 21 We looked at the edge of the forest without rising, my hand stopping in the action of putting it to my mouth, Ned Land’s completing its office.“Stones do not fall from the sky,” remarked Conseil, “or they would merit the name aerolites.”A second stone, carefully aimed, that made a savoury pigeon’s leg fall

Chapter 20 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 only two months before that we had become, according to Captain Nemo, “passengers on board the Nautilus,” but, in reality, prisoners of its commander.In a few minutes we

Chapter 19 During the night of the 27th or 28th of December, the Nautilus left the shores of Vanikoro with great speed. Her course was south-westerly, and in three days she had gone over the 750 leagues that separated it from La Perouse’s group and the south-east point of Papua.Early on the 1st of January,

Chapter 18 This terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes that the Nautilus was destined to meet with in its route. As long as it went through more frequented waters, we often saw the hulls of shipwrecked vessels that were rotting in the depths, and deeper down cannons, bullets, anchors, chains,