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1At six o'clock the Nautilus, sometimes floating, sometimes immersed, passed some distance from Tor, situated at the end
2of the bay, the waters of which seemed tinted with red, an observation already made by Captain Nemo. Then night fell in
3the midst of a heavy silence, sometimes broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds, and the noise of the
4waves breaking upon the shore, chafing against the rocks, or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters of
5the Gulf with its noisy paddles. From eight to nine o'clock the Nautilus remained some fathoms under the water.
6According to my calculation we must have been very near Suez. Through the panel of the saloon I saw the bottom of the
7rocks brilliantly lit up by our electric lamp. We seemed to be leaving the Straits behind us more and more. At a
8quarter-past nine, the vessel having returned to the surface, I mounted the platform. Most impatient to pass through
9Captain Nemo's tunnel, I could not stay in one place, so came to breathe the fresh night air. Soon in the shadow I saw a
10pale light, half discoloured by the fog, shining about a mile from us. "A floating lighthouse!" said someone near me. I
11turned, and saw the Captain. "It is the floating light of Suez," he continued. "It will not be long before we gain the
12entrance of the tunnel." "The entrance cannot be easy?" "No, sir; for that reason I am accustomed to go into the
13steersman's cage and myself direct our course. And now, if you will go down, M. Aronnax, the Nautilus is going under the
14waves, and will not return to the surface until we have passed through the Arabian Tunnel." Captain Nemo led me towards
15the central staircase; half way down he opened a door, traversed the upper deck, and landed in the pilot's cage, which
16it may be remembered rose at the extremity of the platform. It was a cabin measuring six feet square, very much like
17that occupied by the pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi or Hudson. In the midst worked a wheel, placed
18vertically, and caught to the tiller-rope, which ran to the back of the Nautilus. Four light-ports with lenticular
19glasses, let in a groove in the partition of the cabin, allowed the man at the wheel to see in all directions. This
20cabin was dark; but soon my eyes accustomed themselves to the obscurity, and I perceived the pilot, a strong man, with
21his hands resting on the spokes of the wheel. Outside, the sea appeared vividly lit up by the lantern, which shed its
22rays from the back of the cabin to the other extremity of the platform. "Now," said Captain Nemo, "let us try to make
23our passage." Electric wires connected the pilot's cage with the machinery room, and from there the Captain could
24communicate simultaneously to his Nautilus the direction and the speed. He pressed a metal knob, and at once the speed
25of the screw diminished. I looked in silence at the high straight wall we were running by at this moment, the immovable
26base of a massive sandy coast. We followed it thus for an hour only some few yards off. Captain Nemo did not take his
27eye from the knob, suspended by its two concentric circles in the cabin. At a simple gesture, the pilot modified the
28course of the Nautilus every instant. I had placed myself at the port-scuttle, and saw some magnificent substructures of
29coral, zoophytes, seaweed, and fucus, agitating their enormous claws, which stretched out from the fissures of the rock.
30At a quarter-past ten, the Captain himself took the helm. A large gallery, black and deep, opened before us. The
31Nautilus went boldly into it. A strange roaring was heard round its sides. It was the waters of the Red Sea, which the
32incline of the tunnel precipitated violently towards the Mediterranean. The Nautilus went with the torrent, rapid as an
33arrow, in spite of the efforts of the machinery, which, in order to offer more effective resistance, beat the waves with
34reversed screw. On the walls of the narrow passage I could see nothing but brilliant rays, straight lines, furrows of
35fire, traced by the great speed, under the brilliant electric light. My heart beat fast. At thirty-five minutes past
36ten, Captain Nemo quitted the helm, and, turning to me, said: "The Mediterranean!" In less than twenty minutes, the
37Nautilus, carried along by the torrent, had passed through the Isthmus of Suez.
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