B. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Highlights

phosphorescent, — location: 56

locomotion, — location: 58

They sang of it in the cafes, ridiculed it in the papers, and represented it on the stage. — location: 78

caricatures — location: 79

perforation — location: 112

quarto, — location: 141

conjecture. — location: 148

conformable — location: 150

narwhal. — location: 154

revictualled — location: 181

M. ARONNAX, Professor in the Museum of Paris, — location: 182

repose. — location: 189

antipodes. — location: 194

"Commander Farragut?" — location: 217

Captain Farragut was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded. — location: 230

Either Captain Farragut would kill the narwhal, or the narwhal would kill the captain. There was no third course. — location: 233

I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the Abraham Lincoln. — location: 241

Ned Land was a Canadian, with an uncommon quickness of hand, and who knew no equal in his dangerous occupation. Skill, coolness, audacity, and cunning he possessed in a superior degree, and it must be a cunning whale to escape the stroke of his harpoon. — location: 249

Ned Land was about forty years of age; he was a tall man (more than six feet high), strongly built, grave and taciturn, occasionally violent, and very passionate when contradicted. His person attracted attention, but above all the boldness of his look, which gave a singular expression to his face. — location: 251

equilibrium — location: 292

I myself, for whom money had no charms, — location: 321

deviations — location: 339

ardent — location: 341

undulated — location: 358

phosphoric — location: 379

elongated, — location: 381

but hope is so firmly rooted in the heart of man! — location: 503

reanimated — location: 513

"Confound it!" cried he, "here are people who come up to the Scotch for hospitality. They only just miss being cannibals. I should not be surprised at it, but I declare that they shall not eat me without my protesting." — location: 565

hermetically — location: 581

"They are rascals." "Good! and from what country?" "From the land of rogues!" "My brave Ned, that country is not clearly indicated on the map of the world; — location: 617

I felt terrified, Conseil was calm, Ned Land roared. — location: 674

M. Pierre Aronnax, — location: 687

cuirass, — location: 716

clemency. — location: 738

"Sir," replied the commander, "I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus." — location: 751

repast, — location: 923

avidity. — location: 923

conical — location: 944

aforesaid — location: 951

coheres — location: 953

"Immensely rich, sir; and I could, without missing it, pay the national debt of France." — location: 1012

excrescence. — location: 1035

lenticular — location: 1036

gradations — location: 1070

surmullet — location: 1093

"chaluts," — location: 1350

preamble, — location: 1357

diurnal — location: 1359

"A vessel!" — location: 1397

stern—"The Florida, Sunderland." — location: 1410

waters, we often saw the hulls of shipwrecked vessels that were rotting in the depths, and deeper down cannons, bullets, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron materials eaten up by rust. — location: 1412

"The earth does not want new continents, but new men." — location: 1418

This is why he left. He was not appreciated, simply because the world does not want more territory, they want more unique men

M. Milne Edwards, my worthy master, — location: 1422

Aronnax's master

learned men reckoned it about the eighth of an inch in a hundred years. — location: 1433

Although the summer sun was very strong, we did not suffer from heat, for at fifteen or twenty fathoms below the surface, the temperature did not rise above from ten to twelve degrees. — location: 1435

verdure — location: 1452

"Only what everyone knows, Captain," I replied. "And could you tell me what everyone knows about it?" he inquired, ironically. "Easily." — location: 1457

circumnavigation. — location: 1460

concretions. — location: 1492

They were the instructions of the naval minister to Commander La Perouse, annotated in the margin in Louis XVI's handwriting. — location: 1514

The last marvel is always the most astonishing; — location: 1523

On 2nd January we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, — location: 1525

betwixt — location: 1541

Captain, cool and calm, always master of himself, — location: 1560

I think, therefore, that the time has come to part company with Captain Nemo." — location: 1576

"Friend Ned, I do not despair of this stout Nautilus, as you do; and in four days we shall know what to hold to on the Pacific tides. Besides, flight might be possible if we were in sight of the English or Provencal coast; but on the Papuan shores, it is another thing; and it will be time enough to come to that extremity if the Nautilus does not recover itself again, which I look upon as a grave event." — location: 1577

amiability." — location: 1584

However, it was only two months before that we had become, according to Captain Nemo, "passengers on board the Nautilus," but, in reality, prisoners of its commander. — location: 1600

reconnoitre — location: 1611

fibrous — location: 1630

The enormous iron-plated cylinder seemed deserted. — location: 1643

circumspection — location: 1649

Happily Conseil, to his great surprise, made a double shot and secured breakfast. — location: 1668

declivities — location: 1674

"Stones do not fall from the sky," remarked Conseil, "or they would merit the name aerolites." — location: 1710

for about twenty natives armed with bows and slings appeared on the skirts of a copse that masked the horizon to the right, hardly a hundred steps from us. — location: 1714

reverie — location: 1731

for the imperturbable confidence of the Captain was catching—sometimes — location: 1734

pinnace — location: 1789

amiable. — location: 1797

she quitted safe and sound the dangerous passes of the Straits of Torres. — location: 1840

apparatus — location: 1865

indefatigable — location: 1879

Imprisonment was not enough to conceal Captain Nemo's projects from us, sleep was more necessary. — location: 1928

habitual — location: 1945

contusion — location: 1958

suffusion — location: 1958

adieu. — location: 2012

Captain Nemo's life was passing, — location: 2022

apparatus — location: 2030

vacuo, — location: 2039

We were furrowing the waters of the Indian Ocean, a vast liquid plain, with a surface of 1,200,000,000 of acres, and whose waters are so clear and transparent that any one leaning over them would turn giddy. — location: 2042

ennui — location: 2046

ostracions — location: 2051

tubercles; — location: 2056

callosities; — location: 2072

It was a shoal of argonauts travelling along on the surface of the ocean. We could count several hundreds. They belonged to the tubercle kind which are peculiar to the Indian seas. — location: 2090

During the day a formidable troop of sharks accompanied us, terrible creatures, which multiply in these seas and make them very dangerous. — location: 2100

and large tiger-sharks nearly six yards long, — location: 2105

The 27th of January, at the entrance of the vast Bay of Bengal, — location: 2106

we met repeatedly a forbidding spectacle, dead bodies floating on the surface of the water. — location: 2107

About seven o'clock in the evening, the Nautilus, half-immersed, was sailing in a sea of milk. — location: 2109

But when you are invited to hunt the shark in its natural element, you would perhaps reflect before accepting the invitation. As for myself, I passed my hand over my forehead, on which stood large drops of cold perspiration. — location: 2137

pintadine. — location: 2160

nacreous — location: 2160

One oyster has been mentioned, though I allow myself to doubt it, as having contained no less than a hundred and fifty sharks." — location: 2164

"A hundred and fifty sharks!" exclaimed Ned Land. — location: 2165

"Did I say sharks?" said I hurriedly. "I meant to say a hundred and fifty pearls. Sharks would not be sense." — location: 2165

Here, in a month will be assembled the numerous fishing boats of the exporters, and these are the waters their divers will ransack so boldly. Happily, this bay is well situated for that kind of fishing. — location: 2212

arbours — location: 2237

carapace — location: 2238

At about seven o'clock we found ourselves at last surveying the oyster-banks on which the pearl-oysters are reproduced by millions. — location: 2238

grotto — location: 2245

It was an oyster of extraordinary dimensions, a gigantic tridacne, a goblet which could have contained a whole lake of holy-water, a basin the breadth of which was more than two yards and a half, and consequently larger than that ornamenting the saloon of the Nautilus. — location: 2251

Gargantua — location: 2255

There, between the folded plaits, I saw a loose pearl, whose size equalled that of a coco-nut. — location: 2258

glean — location: 2266

Two conclusions I must inevitably draw from it—one bearing upon the unparalleled courage of Captain Nemo, the other upon his devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which he fled beneath the sea. — location: 2312

We had made 16,220 miles, or 7,500 (French) leagues from our starting-point in the Japanese Seas. — location: 2319

egress. — location: 2322

At last about noon, we were in the waters of the Red Sea. — location: 2349

propitiatory — location: 2387

"Or beneath it, M. Aronnax." "Beneath it?" "Certainly," replied Captain Nemo quietly. "A long time ago Nature made under this tongue of land what man has this day made on its surface." "What! such a passage exists?" — location: 2431

counting-house — location: 2445

dugong! — location: 2456

covetousness — location: 2456

expletives — location: 2486

Then, taking a spring, he threw himself upon us. The pinnace could not avoid the shock, and half upset, shipped at least two tons of water, which had to be emptied; but, thanks to the coxswain, we caught it sideways, not full front, so we were not quite overturned. — location: 2491

But the barrel soon returned to the surface, and shortly after the body of the animal, turned on its back. — location: 2496

Pelusium — location: 2539

jovial — location: 2540

Egyptian — location: 2543

"What I have to tell you is very simple. We are in Europe; and before Captain Nemo's caprices drag us once more to the bottom of the Polar Seas, or lead us into Oceania, I ask to leave the Nautilus." — location: 2548

I wished in no way to shackle the liberty of my companions, but I certainly felt no desire to leave Captain Nemo. — location: 2549

Island of Carpathos, one of the Sporades, — location: 2588

hermetically — location: 2592

despotism — location: 2594

allusion — location: 2595

taciturn — location: 2596

felspar. — location: 2646

Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan. — location: 2656

we had crossed the Straits of Gibraltar by sunrise on the 18th. — location: 2665

To quit the Nautilus under such conditions would be as bad as jumping from a train going at full speed—an imprudent thing, to say the least of it. — location: 2670

We were then passing between Sicily and the coast of Tunis. — location: 2674

equilibrium. — location: 2697

incessantly — location: 2705

after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues — location: 2707

adieu — location: 2732

interlocutor — location: 2777

I leave you to imagine the rage of the Canadian when I informed him of our situation. — location: 2843

Instinctively the thought flashed across my mind that I should be wet through! By the water! in the midst of the water! I could not help laughing at the odd idea. — location: 2862

scoriae, — location: 2913

incandescence, — location: 2916

There indeed under my eyes, ruined, destroyed, lay a town—its roofs open to the sky, — location: 2918

abutted — location: 2921

traced the one word: ATLANTIS — location: 2924

The species of fishes — location: 2942

The species of fecies

zenith, — location: 2962

orifice, — location: 2968

"In the very heart of an extinct volcano, the interior of which has been invaded by the sea, after some great convulsion of the earth. — location: 2969

without saying where we were. They mounted the platform. Conseil, who was astonished at nothing, seemed to look upon it as quite natural that he should wake under a mountain, after having fallen asleep under the waves. — location: 2986

the Nautilus, having left its port, steered clear of all land at a few yards beneath the waves of the Atlantic. — location: 3044

After leaving the Gulf of Florida, we went in the direction of Spitzbergen. — location: 3046

he intended, after doubling Cape Horn, to return to the Australian seas of the Pacific. Ned Land had cause for fear. In these large seas, void of islands, we could not attempt to leave the boat. — location: 3069

conned — location: 3078

We had then made about 13,000 leagues since our departure from the high seas of the Pacific. — location: 3084

Captain Nemo intended seeking the bottom of the ocean by a diagonal sufficiently lengthened by means of lateral planes placed at an angle of 45? with the water-line of the Nautilus. — location: 3087

temerity — location: 3112

cachalots, — location: 3156

At length, on the 18th of March, after many useless assaults, the Nautilus was positively blocked. — location: 3261

imprudent. — location: 3274

"Further to the South?" I asked, looking at the Captain. "Yes, sir; it shall go to the pole." "To the pole!" I exclaimed, unable to repress a gesture of incredulity. — location: 3279

"Over it, sir!" said Captain Nemo, quietly; "no, not over it, but under it!" — location: 3288

and the Nautilus soon descended. — location: 3315

sojourn — location: 3324

Were we going to emerge and regain the open polar atmosphere? No! A shock told me that the Nautilus had struck the bottom of the iceberg, still very thick, judging from the deadened sound. — location: 3329

At length, at six in the morning of that memorable day, the 19th of March, the door of the saloon opened, and Captain Nemo appeared. "The sea is open!!" was all he said. — location: 3341

lichens — location: 3369

Albatrosses — location: 3377

aver — location: 3401

voluptuous — location: 3407

equinox; — location: 3433

The thermometer showed 120 below zero, — location: 3479

At three in the morning I was awakened by a violent shock. I sat up in my bed and listened in the darkness, when I was thrown into the middle of the room. The Nautilus, after having struck, had rebounded violently. — location: 3487

This is what has happened; one of these blocks, as it fell, struck the Nautilus, then, gliding under its hull, raised it with irresistible force, bringing it into beds which are not so thick, where it is lying on its side." — location: 3510

"At last we have righted!" I exclaimed. — location: 3520

The Nautilus was really imprisoned in a perfect tunnel of ice more than twenty yards in breadth, filled with quiet water. — location: 3525

resplendent — location: 3527

voltaic — location: 3528

capriciously — location: 3528

egress." — location: 3545

ottoman, — location: 3550

"Is what you are reading very interesting, sir?" "Very interesting!" I replied. "I should think so, sir. It is your own book you are reading." "My book?" And indeed I was holding in my hand the work on the Great Submarine Depths. — location: 3551

"Yes, sir. The iceberg has shifted and closed every outlet." "We are blocked up then?" "Yes." — location: 3560

vitiated — location: 3610

distillatory — location: 3639

divan — location: 3675

The panel was opened—one might say torn off—and the pure air came in in abundance to all parts of the Nautilus. — location: 3687

effaced — location: 3706

and we passed Cape Frio standing out to sea. Captain Nemo, to Ned Land's great displeasure, did not like the neighbourhood of the inhabited coasts of Brazil, — location: 3726

we sighted the most westerly point of South America that forms Cape San Roque. But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest depth of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. — location: 3729

apteronotes, — location: 3756

bilobed — location: 3765

In a moment he was overthrown, his legs in the air, and half his body paralysed, crying— "Oh! master, master! help me!" — location: 3767

For six months we had been prisoners on board the Nautilus. We had travelled 17,000 leagues; — location: 3786

Besides, for some time past he had become graver, more retired, less sociable. He seemed to shun me. I met him rarely. Formerly he was pleased to explain the submarine marvels to me; now he left me to my studies, and came no more to the saloon. — location: 3787

The land nearest us was the archipelago of the Bahamas. — location: 3791

"Very well! no offence to master," he replied, quietly; "if this is not Bouguer's cuttlefish, it is, at least, one of its brothers." — location: 3825

"and we are going to fight them, man to beast." — location: 3848

I mean the Gulf Stream. — location: 3892

"We know now," said Ned, "that we can expect nothing from this man. The Nautilus is nearing Long Island. We will escape, whatever the weather may be." — location: 3946

cirrhous — location: 3948

pervaded — location: 3950

foraminiferae, — location: 4010

The bottom of the ocean then formed a valley about 100 miles broad, in which Mont Blanc might have been placed without its summit appearing above the waves. — location: 4015

I looked in the direction of the vessel I had already seen. It was nearing the Nautilus, and we could see that it was putting on steam. It was within six miles of us. "What is that ship, Ned?" — location: 4062

"What! they are firing at us!" I exclaimed. — location: 4077

"I am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor! Through him I have lost all that I loved, cherished, and venerated—country, wife, children, father, and mother. I saw all perish! All that I hate is there! Say no more!" — location: 4113

My companions and I resolved to fly when the vessel should be near enough either to hear us or to see us; — location: 4120

Ned Land was resolute, Conseil calm, myself so nervous that I knew not how to contain myself. — location: 4144

incessantly — location: 4184

indelible — location: 4205

every incident, either happy or unfortunate, which had happened since my disappearance from the Abraham Lincoln—the submarine hunt, the Torres Straits, the savages of Papua, the running ashore, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, the Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, the iceberg, the South Pole, the imprisonment in the ice, the fight among the poulps, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and the horrible scene of the vessel sunk with all her crew. — location: 4213

maelstrom—how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell. — location: 4257

omitted, — location: 4262

maelstrom? — location: 4266

sublime. — location: 4272