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At the
captain'
s summons, two crewmen came to help us put on these heavy, waterproof clothes, made from seamless india rubber and expressly designed to bear considerable pressures.
But before proceeding with this operation, I asked the
captain
for permission to examine the rifles set aside for us.
The
captain
stopped suddenly.
Just then I saw the
captain'
s weapon spring to his shoulder and track a moving object through the bushes.
At first I didn't know what to make of this sudden assault, but I was reassured to observe the
captain
lying motionless beside me.
As the
captain
was finishing his sentence, I said to myself: "The pole!
Meanwhile the
captain
fell silent and stared at the element he had studied so thoroughly and unceasingly.
Then, addressing me directly, as if to drive away an ugly thought:"Professor Aronnax," he asked me, "do you know the depth of the ocean floor?""At least, captain, I know what the major soundings tell us."
On the 27th it passed in sight of the Hawaiian Islands, where the famous
Captain
Cook met his death on February 14, 1779.
On December 25 the Nautilus navigated amid the island group of the New Hebrides, which the Portuguese seafarer Quiros discovered in 1606, which Commander Bougainville explored in 1768, and to which
Captain
Cook gave its current name in 1773.
The
captain
approached, placed a finger over a position on the chart, and pronounced just one word:"Vanikoro."
"Yes, professor," the
captain
replied.
"What everybody knows, captain," I answered him.
"That damned captain," the Canadian went on, "must really be sure of his course, because if these clumps of coral so much as brush us, they'll rip our hull into a thousand pieces!"
I was mulling this over when the
captain
approached, cool and calm, forever in control of himself, looking neither alarmed nor annoyed.
"Well, sir?"Ned Land said to me, coming up after the
captain'
s departure.
"So our
captain
isn't going to drop his anchors, put his engines on the chains, and do anything to haul us off?""Since the tide will be sufficient," Conseil replied simply.
"Let master take the risk," Conseil said, "and we'll know where we stand on the
captain'
s affability."
"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me.""What sort of bipeds?""Savages."
The
captain'
s fingers then ran over the instrument's keyboard, and I noticed that he touched only its black keys, which gave his melodies a basically Scottish color.
For several hours I was left to myself, sometimes musing on the islanders-- but no longer fearing them because the
captain'
s unflappable confidence had won me over--and sometimes forgetting them to marvel at the splendors of this tropical night.
I ventured a knock at the door opening into the
captain'
s stateroom.
"Correct, Professor Aronnax," the
captain
answered me.
"No, captain, but one danger still remains."
Then, pertinent to this:"He was one of your great seamen," the
captain
told me, "one of your shrewdest navigators, that d'Urville!
He was the Frenchman's
Captain
Cook.
"Even so, captain," I said, "there is one major similarity between Dumont d'Urville's sloops of war and the Nautilus."
There I found Conseil, who wanted to know the upshot of my interview with the
captain.
"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.
I gaped at the
captain.
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