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1MOBILIS IN MOBILI This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning. I
2shivered all over. Whom had we to deal with? No doubt some new sort of pirates, who explored the sea in their own way.
3Hardly had the narrow panel closed upon me, when I was enveloped in darkness. My eyes, dazzled with the outer light,
4could distinguish nothing. I felt my naked feet cling to the rungs of an iron ladder. Ned Land and Conseil, firmly
5seized, followed me. At the bottom of the ladder, a door opened, and shut after us immediately with a bang. We were
6alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes
7had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer. Meanwhile, Ned Land, furious at these proceedings, gave free
8vent to his indignation. "Confound it!" cried he, "here are people who come up to the Scotch for hospitality. They only
9just miss being cannibals. I should not be surprised at it, but I declare that they shall not eat me without my
10protesting." "Calm yourself, friend Ned, calm yourself," replied Conseil, quietly. "Do not cry out before you are hurt.
11We are not quite done for yet." "Not quite," sharply replied the Canadian, "but pretty near, at all events. Things look
12black. Happily, my bowie knife I have still, and I can always see well enough to use it. The first of these pirates who
13lays a hand on me----" "Do not excite yourself, Ned," I said to the harpooner, "and do not compromise us by useless
14violence. Who knows that they will not listen to us? Let us rather try to find out where we are." I groped about. In
15five steps I came to an iron wall, made of plates bolted together. Then turning back I struck against a wooden table,
16near which were ranged several stools. The boards of this prison were concealed under a thick mat of phormium, which
17deadened the noise of the feet. The bare walls revealed no trace of window or door. Conseil, going round the reverse
18way, met me, and we went back to the middle of the cabin, which measured about twenty feet by ten. As to its height, Ned
19Land, in spite of his own great height, could not measure it. Half an hour had already passed without our situation
20being bettered, when the dense darkness suddenly gave way to extreme light. Our prison was suddenly lighted--that is to
21say, it became filled with a luminous matter, so strong that I could not bear it at first. In its whiteness and
22intensity I recognised that electric light which played round the submarine boat like a magnificent phenomenon of
23phosphorescence. After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half
24globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin. "At last one can see," cried Ned Land, who, knife in hand, stood on
25the defensive. "Yes," said I; "but we are still in the dark about ourselves." "Let master have patience," said the
26imperturbable Conseil. The sudden lighting of the cabin enabled me to examine it minutely. It only contained a table and
27five stools. The invisible door might be hermetically sealed. No noise was heard. All seemed dead in the interior of
28this boat. Did it move, did it float on the surface of the ocean, or did it dive into its depths? I could not guess. A
29noise of bolts was now heard, the door opened, and two men appeared. One was short, very muscular, broad-shouldered,
30with robust limbs, strong head, an abundance of black hair, thick moustache, a quick penetrating look, and the vivacity
31which characterises the population of Southern France. The second stranger merits a more detailed description. A
32disciple of Gratiolet or Engel would have read his face like an open book. I made out his prevailing qualities
33directly:--self-confidence,--because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold
34assurance; calmness,--for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy,--evinced by the rapid contraction
35of his lofty brows; and courage,--because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs. Whether this person was
36thirty-five or fifty years of age, I could not say. He was tall, had a large forehead, straight nose, a clearly cut
37mouth, beautiful teeth, with fine taper hands, indicative of a highly nervous temperament. This man was certainly the
38most admirable specimen I had ever met. One particular feature was his eyes, rather far from each other, and which could
39take in nearly a quarter of the horizon at once. This faculty--(I verified it later)--gave him a range of vision far
40superior to Ned Land's. When this stranger fixed upon an object, his eyebrows met, his large eyelids closed around so as
41to contract the range of his vision, and he looked as if he magnified the objects lessened by distance, as if he pierced
42those sheets of water so opaque to our eyes, and as if he read the very depths of the seas. The two strangers, with caps
43made from the fur of the sea otter, and shod with sea boots of seal's skin, were dressed in clothes of a particular
44texture, which allowed free movement of the limbs. The taller of the two, evidently the chief on board, examined us with
45great attention, without saying a word; then turning to his companion, talked with him in an unknown tongue. It was a
46sonorous, harmonious, and flexible dialect, the vowels seeming to admit of very varied accentuation. The other replied
47by a shake of the head, and added two or three perfectly incomprehensible words. Then he seemed to question me by a
48look. I replied in good French that I did not know his language; but he seemed not to understand me, and my situation
49became more embarrassing. "If master were to tell our story," said Conseil, "perhaps these gentlemen may understand some
50words." I began to tell our adventures, articulating each syllable clearly, and without omitting one single detail. I
51announced our names and rank, introducing in person Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and master Ned Land, the
52harpooner. The man with the soft calm eyes listened to me quietly, even politely, and with extreme attention; but
53nothing in his countenance indicated that he had understood my story. When I finished, he said not a word. There
54remained one resource, to speak English. Perhaps they would know this almost universal language. I knew it, as well as
55the German language,--well enough to read it fluently, but not to speak it correctly. But, anyhow, we must make
56ourselves understood. "Go on in your turn," I said to the harpooner; "speak your best Anglo-Saxon, and try to do better
57than I." Ned did not beg off, and recommenced our story. To his great disgust, the harpooner did not seem to have made
58himself more intelligible than I had. Our visitors did not stir. They evidently understood neither the language of Arago
59nor of Faraday. Very much embarrassed, after having vainly exhausted our speaking resources, I knew not what part to
60take, when Conseil said-- "If master will permit me, I will relate it in German." But in spite of the elegant terms and
61good accent of the narrator, the German language had no success. At last, nonplussed, I tried to remember my first
62lessons, and to narrate our adventures in Latin, but with no better success. This last attempt being of no avail, the
63two strangers exchanged some words in their unknown language, and retired. The door shut. "It is an infamous shame,"
64cried Ned Land, who broke out for the twentieth time. "We speak to those rogues in French, English, German, and Latin,
65and not one of them has the politeness to answer!" "Calm yourself," I said to the impetuous Ned, "anger will do no
66good." "But do you see, Professor," replied our irascible companion, "that we shall absolutely die of hunger in this
67iron cage?" "Bah!" said Conseil, philosophically; "we can hold out some time yet." "My friends," I said, "we must not
68despair. We have been worse off than this. Do me the favour to wait a little before forming an opinion upon the
69commander and crew of this boat." "My opinion is formed," replied Ned Land, sharply. "They are rascals." "Good! and from
70what country?" "From the land of rogues!"
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