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Négrel and Dansaert, above, were shouting to the
captain
to come in and take refuge with them.
The idea of going in, of turning their backs for a moment turned the
captain'
s pale face purple; but it was no longer possible, they would be torn to pieces at the least movement.
Three times the
captain
was on the point of ordering them to fire.
With a nervous movement the
captain
had taken off and then put on his cap, struck by a stone; he preserved his pallid stiffness in face of the disaster of his life, while his men with mute faces were reloading.
At that time the pit was empty, and he only met a sleepy-eyed
captain.
Gangs of ten men were therefore formed below, each beneath the control of a
captain.
This was not by chance; he had at first hidden behind his mates, and had then forced the
captain
s hand.
They seldom spoke, and the
captain
never left them.
He appeared to be in a very bad humour, and was furious with the captain; nothing had gone well, what was the meaning of such work, the planking would everywhere have to be done over again!
The
captain
had stopped the removal of the rubbish to employ all his people in supporting the roof.
They only kept their lamp and ran in single file--the men, the boys, the putter; the
captain
himself lost his head and shouted out appeals, more and more frightened at the silence in this endless desert of galleries.
"The pit is ruined," replied the head
captain.
Then, when he saw them all without courage, and that the head
captain
was tottering, giddy with terror, he pushed him aside with a movement of contempt.
There was only one immediate dismissal, that of Dansaert, the head
captain.
A pretext was made of his attitude in danger, the cowardice of a
captain
abandoning his men.
A
captain
who was there estimated that the thickness of the block which separated them from their mates could not be less than fifty metres.
Négrel, who had come up for a moment, was not there to make him obey, and only a
captain
and three miners were below.
This torrent of flame carried away the
captain
and three workers, ascended the pit, and leapt up to the daylight in an eruption which split the rocks and the ruins around.
Neither the
captain
nor the workers were dead, but they were covered by awful wounds which gave out an odour of grilled flesh; they had drunk of fire, the burns had got into their throats, and they constantly moaned and prayed to be finished off.
Pierron had appeared with his naked
captain'
s lamp fixed into the leather of his cap.
But one of them, the
captain
of the Monroe, knew that Ned Land had shipped aboard the Abraham Lincoln and asked his help in hunting a baleen whale that was in sight.
The
captain
gave him his orders in that strange language I couldn't even identify.
"Yours to command, captain."
"You love the sea, captain."
One odd detail: all these books were shelved indiscriminately without regard to the language in which they were written, and this jumble proved that the Nautilus's
captain
could read fluently whatever volumes he chanced to pick up.
But science, in particular, represented the major investment of this library: books on mechanics, ballistics, hydrography, meteorology, geography, geology, etc., held a place there no less important than works on natural history, and I realized that they made up the
captain'
s chief reading.
"Sir," I told the captain, "thank you for placing this library at my disposal.
"None whatever," the
captain
replied.
"Right," the
captain
replied, "this tobacco comes from neither Havana nor the Orient.
"I understand, captain, I understand your delight at strolling in the midst of this wealth.
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