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1The return began. Captain Nemo had returned to the head of his little band, directing their course without hesitation. I
2thought we were not following the same road to return to the Nautilus. The new road was very steep, and consequently
3very painful. We approached the surface of the sea rapidly. But this return to the upper strata was not so sudden as to
4cause relief from the pressure too rapidly, which might have produced serious disorder in our organisation, and brought
5on internal lesions, so fatal to divers. Very soon light reappeared and grew, and the sun being low on the horizon, the
6refraction edged the different objects with a spectral ring. At ten yards and a half deep, we walked amidst a shoal of
7little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of
8a shot had as yet met our gaze, when at that moment I saw the Captain shoulder his gun quickly, and follow a moving
9object into the shrubs. He fired;--I heard a slight hissing, and a creature fell stunned at some distance from us. It
10was a magnificent sea-otter, an enhydrus, the only exclusively marine quadruped. This otter was five feet long, and must
11have been very valuable. Its skin, chestnut-brown above and silvery underneath, would have made one of those beautiful
12furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets; the fineness and the lustre of its coat would certainly fetch
13£80. I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short ears, its round eyes, and white whiskers
14like those of a cat, with webbed feet and nails, and tufted tail. This precious animal, hunted and tracked by fishermen,
15has now become very rare, and taken refuge chiefly in the northern parts of the Pacific, or probably its race would soon
16become extinct. Captain Nemo's companion took the beast, threw it over his shoulder, and we continued our journey. For
17one hour a plain of sand lay stretched before us. Sometimes it rose to within two yards and some inches of the surface
18of the water. I then saw our image clearly reflected, drawn inversely, and above us appeared an identical group
19reflecting our movements and our actions; in a word, like us in every point, except that they walked with their heads
20downward and their feet in the air. Another effect I noticed, which was the passage of thick clouds which formed and
21vanished rapidly; but on reflection I understood that these seeming clouds were due to the varying thickness of the
22reeds at the bottom, and I could even see the fleecy foam which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the
23shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could discern on the surface of the sea. On this
24occasion, I was witness to one of the finest gun-shots which ever made the nerves of a hunter thrill. A large bird of
25great breadth of wing, clearly visible, approached, hovering over us. Captain Nemo's companion shouldered his gun and
26fired, when it was only a few yards above the waves. The creature fell stunned, and the force of its fall brought it
27within the reach of the dexterous hunter's grasp. It was an albatross of the finest kind. Our march had not been
28interrupted by this incident. For two hours we followed these sandy plains, then fields of algæ very disagreeable to
29cross. Candidly, I could do no more when I saw a glimmer of light, which, for a half mile, broke the darkness of the
30waters. It was the lantern of the Nautilus. Before twenty minutes were over we should be on board, and I should be able
31to breathe with ease, for it seemed that my reservoir supplied air very deficient in oxygen. But I did not reckon on an
32accidental meeting, which delayed our arrival for some time. I had remained some steps behind, when I presently saw
33Captain Nemo coming hurriedly towards me. With his strong hand he bent me to the ground, his companion doing the same to
34Conseil. At first I knew not what to think of this sudden attack, but I was soon reassured by seeing the Captain lie
35down beside me, and remain immovable. I was stretched on the ground, just under the shelter of a bush of algæ, when,
36raising my head, I saw some enormous mass, casting phosphorescent gleams, pass blusteringly by. My blood froze in my
37veins as I recognised two formidable sharks which threatened us. It was a couple of tintoreas, terrible creatures, with
38enormous tails and a dull glassy stare, the phosphorescent matter ejected from holes pierced around the muzzle.
39Monstrous brutes! which would crush a whole man in their iron jaws. I did not know whether Conseil stopped to classify
40them; for my part, I noticed their silver bellies, and their huge mouths bristling with teeth, from a very unscientific
41point of view, and more as a possible victim than as a naturalist. Happily the voracious creatures do not see well. They
42passed without seeing us, brushing us with their brownish fins, and we escaped by a miracle from a danger certainly
43greater than meeting a tiger full-face in the forest. Half an hour after, guided by the electric light, we reached the
44Nautilus. The outside door had been left open, and Captain Nemo closed it as soon as we had entered the first cell. He
45then pressed a knob. I heard the pumps working in the midst of the vessel, I felt the water sinking from around me, and
46in a few moments the cell was entirely empty. The inside door then opened, and we entered the vestry. There our
47diving-dress was taken off, not without some trouble; and, fairly worn out from want of food and sleep. I returned to my
48room, in great wonder at this surprising excursion at the bottom of the sea.
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