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At Full Steam · 47
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A Whale of Unknown Species · 53
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“Mobilis in Mobili” · 54
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The Tantrums of Ned Land · 62
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The Man of the Waters · 77
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The Nautilus · 87
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Everything through Electricity · 93
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Some Figures · 96
Some Figures · 95
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Some Figures · 101
Some Figures · 103
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The Black Current · 111
The Black Current ·
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An Invitation in Writing · 113
Strolling the Plains · 121
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Strolling the Plains · 123
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An Underwater Forest · 129
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Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific · 139
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Vanikoro · 147
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Some Days Ashore · 158
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The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo · 170
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“Aegri Somnia” · 131
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“Aegri Somnia” · 189
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The Coral Realm · 193
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The Coral Realm · 197
SECOND PART
CHAPTER 1
The Indian Ocean
NOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas. The first ended in that moving scene at the coral cemetery, which left a profound impression on my mind. And so Captain Nemo would live out his life entirely in the heart of this immense sea, and even his grave lay ready in its impenetrable depths. There the last sleep of the Nautilus’s occupants, friends bound together in death as in life, would be disturbed by no monster of the deep! “No man either!” the captain had added.
Always that same fierce, implacable defiance of human society!
As for me, I was no longer content with the hypotheses that satisfied Conseil. That fine lad persisted in seeing the Nautilus’s commander as merely one of those unappreciated scientists who repay humanity’s indifference with contempt. For Conseil, the captain was still a misunderstood genius who, tired of the world’s deceptions, had been driven to take refuge in this inaccessible environment where he was free to follow his instincts. But to my mind, this hypothesis explained only one side of Captain Nemo.
In fact, the mystery of that last afternoon when we were locked in prison and put to sleep, the captain’s violent precaution of snatching