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"Conseil my friend," Ned replied in all seriousness, "parrots are like pheasant to people with nothing else on their plates."
"Order Passeriforma, division Clystomora," Conseil replied.
"All right, Ned," I asked the Canadian, "now what do you need?""Game with four paws, Professor Aronnax," Ned Land replied.
"Then let's keep hunting," Conseil replied, "but while heading back to the sea.
"Master is too kind," Conseil replied.
"Nearly," Conseil replied.
"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me.""What sort of bipeds?""Savages."
Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone.
"Well then," I replied, "if you don't want to welcome them aboard the Nautilus, you'd better take some precautions!"
"Professor Aronnax," replied Captain Nemo, whose fingers took their places again on the organ keys, "if every islander in Papua were to gather on that beach, the Nautilus would still have nothing to fear from their attacks!"
"With all due respect to master, they don't strike me as very wicked!""They're cannibals even so, my boy.""A person can be both a cannibal and a decent man," Conseil replied, "just as a person can be both gluttonous and honorable.
"The Nautilus is not aground, sir," Captain Nemo replied icily.
"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.
What's Ned Land up to?""Begging master's indulgence," Conseil replied, "but our friend Ned is concocting a kangaroo pie that will be the eighth wonder!"
"What about the Papuans?""What about them?"Captain Nemo replied, with a light shrug of his shoulders.
"Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied serenely, "the Nautilus's hatches aren't to be entered in that fashion even when they're open."
"Fine," I replied, "but the Nautilus lives in a separate world, and the secrets of its scientists don't make their way ashore."
"Yes, my boy," I replied.
"That's not important," the captain replied evasively.
I took a last look at the wounded man, then I replied:"This man will be dead in two hours."
"Yes, Professor Aronnax," Captain Nemo replied.
Then he added:"There lies our peaceful cemetery, hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the waves!""At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!""Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"SECOND PARTCHAPTER 1 The Indian OceanNOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas.
Come on now, isn't it time for our sudden departure from Captain Nemo?""No, no, Ned," I replied in a very firm tone.
"Not unlike Captain Nemo," Conseil replied sagely.
I said "You know about--""With all due respect to master," Conseil replied, "the Nautilus's commander has invited us, together with master, for a visit tomorrow to Ceylon's magnificent pearl fisheries.
"He didn't tell you anything else?""Nothing, sir," the Canadian replied.
"Dangerous?"Ned Land replied.
"Or on the occupational hazards that--""On the fishing," the Canadian replied.
"All right, sit down, my friends, and I'll teach you everything I myself have just been taught by the Englishman H. C. Sirr!"Ned and Conseil took seats on a couch, and right off the Canadian said to me:"Sir, just what is a pearl exactly?""My gallant Ned," I replied, "for poets a pearl is a tear from the sea; for Orientals it's a drop of solidified dew; for the ladies it's a jewel they can wear on their fingers, necks, and ears that's oblong in shape, glassy in luster, and formed from mother-of-pearl; for chemists it's a mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate with a little gelatin protein; and finally, for naturalists it's a simple festering secretion from the organ that produces mother-of-pearl in certain bivalves."
"Good!" the Canadian replied.
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