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"Not at all, professor," the captain answered me after a slight hesitation, "since you'll never leave this underwater boat.
"You're an engineer, then, Captain Nemo?""Yes, professor," he answered me.
"Sir," he answered me, "I have chronometers variously set to the meridians of Paris, Greenwich, and Washington, D.C.
"In the Quebec Museum?""Begging master's pardon," Conseil answered, "but this seems more like the Sommerard artifacts exhibition!""My friends," I replied, signaling them to enter, "you're in neither Canada nor France, but securely aboard the Nautilus, fifty meters below sea level."
"If master says so, then so be it," Conseil answered.
"Well, we've got to accept!" the Canadian answered.
Since he made no allusion to his absence the past eight days, I also refrained from mentioning it, and I simply answered that my companions and I were ready to go with him.
"Well then, captain, how is it that you've severed all ties with the shore, yet you own forests on Crespo Island?""Professor," the captain answered me, "these forests of mine don't bask in the heat and light of the sun.
The day I expounded this theory to Captain Nemo, he answered me coldly:"The earth doesn't need new continents, but new men!"Sailors' luck led the Nautilus straight to Reao Island, one of the most unusual in this group, which was discovered in 1822 by Captain Bell aboard the Minerva.
"What everybody knows, captain," I answered him.
"No, an incident," he answered me.
"Sir," he answered, "you can trust me when I say this hunk of iron will never navigate again, on the seas or under them.
"Ye gods," the Canadian shot back, "I'm starting to appreciate the charms of cannibalism!""Ned, Ned!Don't say that!"Conseil answered.
"Wrong, Ned my friend," Conseil answered, "because I see only ordinary parrots here."
The word "Enter!" answered me.
"Correct, Professor Aronnax," the captain answered me.
"My boy," I replied, "when I expressed the belief that these Papuan natives were a threat to his Nautilus, the captain answered me with great irony.
"You're in command," I answered, gaping at him.
"Ned my friend," Conseil answered, "what would you say if they'd given us no lunch at all?"
"You mean," I said, "that such primitive methods are still all that they use?""All," Captain Nemo answered me, "although these fisheries belong to the most industrialized people in the world, the English, to whom the Treaty of Amiens granted them in 1802."
"We're used to them, the rest of us," Captain Nemo answered.
"Our lighting equipment would be useless to us," the captain answered me.
When I shared these impressions with him, he answered me in a tone touched with emotion:"That Indian, professor, lives in the land of the oppressed, and I am to this day, and will be until my last breath, a native of that same land!"
"One can easily see," I answered, "that those historians didn't navigate aboard the Nautilus."
"Yes and no, Professor Aronnax," answered Captain Nemo, who seemed to know "his Red Sea" by heart.
"Sir," the captain answered me, "there can be no secrets between men who will never leave each other."
"In that case, captain," Conseil said in all seriousness, "on the offchance that this creature might be the last of its line, wouldn't it be advisable to spare its life, in the interests of science?""Maybe," the Canadian answered, "it would be better to hunt it down, in the interests of mealtime."
"Tell it to the marines, sir," answered the stubborn Canadian.
The diver answered with his hand, immediately swam up to the surface of the sea, and didn't reappear.
"Near the island of Santorini, professor," the captain answered me, "and right in the channel that separates the volcanic islets of Nea Kameni and Palea Kameni.
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