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CHAPTER 16 Strolling the PlainsTHIS CELL, properly speaking, was the Nautilus's arsenal and wardrobe.
One of the Nautilus's men presented me with a streamlined rifle whose butt was boilerplate steel, hollow inside, and of fairly large dimensions.
But how will we reach the bottom of the sea?""Right now, professor, the Nautilus is aground in ten meters of water, and we've only to depart."
Contrived in the Nautilus's side, a second door then opened.
We had been gone from the Nautilus for about an hour and a half.
There I saw again, but not yet pressed and dried like the Nautilus's specimens, some peacock's tails spread open like fans to stir up a cooling breeze, scarlet rosetangle, sea tangle stretching out their young and edible shoots, twisting strings of kelp from the genus Nereocystis that bloomed to a height of fifteen meters, bouquets of mermaid's cups whose stems grew wider at the top, and a number of other open-sea plants, all without flowers.
Just then Conseil woke up, together with the Nautilus's sailor.
Meanwhile I had assumed this rest period would be the turning point in our stroll, but I was mistaken; and instead of heading back to the Nautilus, Captain Nemo continued his daring excursion.
I noted that we didn't follow the same path in returning to the Nautilus.
It was the Nautilus's beacon.
Half an hour later, guided by its electric trail, we reached the Nautilus.
CHAPTER 18 Four Thousand Leagues Under the PacificBY THE NEXT MORNING, November 18, I was fully recovered from my exhaustion of the day before, and I climbed onto the platform just as the Nautilus's chief officer was pronouncing his daily phrase.
So we were never lacking in provisions of the highest quality, which the Nautilus's speed and the allure of its electric light could continually replenish.
It was during the night of December 9-10 that the Nautilus encountered this army of distinctly nocturnal mollusks.
Near evening Reao Island melted into the distance, and the Nautilus noticeably changed course.
The Nautilus drew near Wailea Bay, an unlucky place for England's Captain Dillon, who was the first to shed light on the longstanding mystery surrounding the disappearance of ships under the Count de La Pérouse.
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 Nautilus is bringing us to Vanikoro?"
After clearing the outer belt of rocks via a narrow passageway, the Nautilus lay inside the breakers where the sea had a depth of thirty to forty fathoms.
This new Search, after putting in at several stops over the Pacific, dropped anchor before Vanikoro on July 7, 1827, in the same harbor of Vana where the Nautilus was currently floating.
The Nautilus sank a few meters beneath the waves, and the panels opened.
CHAPTER 20The Torres StraitDURING THE NIGHT of December 27-28, the Nautilus left the waterways of Vanikoro behind with extraordinary speed.
Before the Nautilus's spur there stretched the dangerous waterways of the Coral Sea, off the northeast coast of Australia.
But just then the Nautilus's slanting fins took us to great depths, and I could see nothing of those high coral walls.
Around the Nautilus the sea was boiling furiously.
"Abominable indeed," I replied, "and hardly suitable for a craft like the Nautilus."
The Nautilus drew near this island, which I can see to this day with its remarkable fringe of screw pines.
We had run aground at full tide and in one of those seas whose tides are moderate, an inconvenient state of affairs for floating the Nautilus off.
Then he said:"No, Professor Aronnax, the Nautilus isn't consigned to perdition.
"Even so, Captain Nemo," I went on, ignoring his ironic turn of phrase, "the Nautilus has run aground at a moment when the sea is full.
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