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"Yes, Captain Nemo," I replied, "and the Nautilus is wonderfully suited to this whole survey.
"One can easily see," I answered, "that those historians didn't navigate aboard the Nautilus."
Who knows whether we'll see a second Nautilus within the next 100 years!
Perhaps you'll encounter them when we reach El Tur.""Hence, Captain Nemo, this isn't the first time you've gone through the Red Sea aboard the Nautilus?"
You can understand that my Nautilus wouldn't have enough water for itself."
"And for the sake of archaeology, let's hope that sooner or later such excavations do take place, once new towns are settled on the isthmus after the Suez Canal has been cut through-- a canal, by the way, of little use to a ship such as the Nautilus!"
"But what is it that startles you?""The thought of how hideously fast the Nautilus will need to go, if it's to double the Cape of Good Hope, circle around Africa, and lie in the open Mediterranean by the day after tomorrow."
I searched for it with my Nautilus, I discovered it, I ventured into it; and soon, professor, you also will have cleared my Arabic tunnel!"CHAPTER 5 Arabian TunnelTHE SAME DAY, I reported to Conseil and Ned Land that part of the foregoing conversation directly concerning them.
"Ned my friend," Conseil replied, "had you ever heard of the Nautilus?
The same evening, at latitude 21 degrees 30' north, the Nautilus was afloat on the surface of the sea and drawing nearer to the Arab coast.
The Nautilus resumed its underwater navigating; but at the moment of our noon sights, the sea was deserted and the ship rose again to its waterline.
"A second Nautilus?"
"The Nautilus is heading that direction, and we'll soon know what we're in for."
The skiff pulled clear, and carried off by its six oars, it headed swiftly toward the dugong, which by then was floating two miles from the Nautilus.
Our skiff rejoined it, took it in tow, and headed to the Nautilus.
A covey of terns alighted on the Nautilus.
By then the Nautilus had reduced speed.
The Nautilus entered the Strait of Jubal, which leads to the Gulf of Suez.
At six o'clock, sometimes afloat and sometimes submerged, the Nautilus passed well out from El Tur, which sat at the far end of a bay whose waters seemed to be dyed red, as Captain Nemo had already mentioned.
And now if you'll kindly go below, Professor Aronnax, the Nautilus is about to sink beneath the waves, and it will only return to the surface after we've cleared the Arabian Tunnel."
In the center stood an upright wheel geared to rudder cables running to the Nautilus's stern.
Electric wires linked the pilothouse with the engine room, and from this cabin the captain could simultaneously signal heading and speed to his Nautilus.
At a mere gesture from him, the helmsman would instantly change the Nautilus's heading.
The Nautilus was brazenly swallowed up.
Our engines tried to offer resistance by churning the waves with propeller in reverse, but the Nautilus went with the torrent, as swift as an arrow.
CHAPTER 6The Greek IslandsAT SUNRISE the next morning, February 12, the Nautilus rose to the surface of the waves.
"What's more, Ned," I said, "Captain Nemo himself did the honors in his tunnel, and I stood beside him in the pilothouse while he steered the Nautilus through that narrow passageway."
We're privy to the Nautilus's secrets, and I don't expect that its commander, just to set us free, will meekly stand by while we spread those secrets all over the world."
"One that leads the Nautilus on a cloudy night within a short distance of some European coast."
Either the Nautilus surfaced only enough to let its pilothouse emerge, or it slipped away to the lower depths, although, between the Greek Islands and Asia Minor, we didn't find bottom even at 2,000 meters down.
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