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1A VANISHED CONTINENT The next morning, the 19th of February, I saw the Canadian enter my room. I expected this visit. He
2looked very disappointed. "Well, sir?" said he. "Well, Ned, fortune was against us yesterday." "Yes; that Captain must
3needs stop exactly at the hour we intended leaving his vessel." "Yes, Ned, he had business at his bankers." "His
4bankers!" "Or rather his banking-house; by that I mean the ocean, where his riches are safer than in the chests of the
5State." I then related to the Canadian the incidents of the preceding night, hoping to bring him back to the idea of not
6abandoning the Captain; but my recital had no other result than an energetically expressed regret from Ned that he had
7not been able to take a walk on the battlefield of Vigo on his own account. "However," said he, "all is not ended. It is
8only a blow of the harpoon lost. Another time we must succeed; and to-night, if necessary----" "In what direction is the
9Nautilus going?" I asked. "I do not know," replied Ned. "Well, at noon we shall see the point." The Canadian returned to
10Conseil. As soon as I was dressed, I went into the saloon. The compass was not reassuring. The course of the Nautilus
11was S.S.W. We were turning our backs on Europe. I waited with some impatience till the ship's place was pricked on the
12chart. At about half-past eleven the reservoirs were emptied, and our vessel rose to the surface of the ocean. I rushed
13towards the platform. Ned Land had preceded me. No more land in sight. Nothing but an immense sea. Some sails on the
14horizon, doubtless those going to San Roque in search of favourable winds for doubling the Cape of Good Hope. The
15weather was cloudy. A gale of wind was preparing. Ned raved, and tried to pierce the cloudy horizon. He still hoped that
16behind all that fog stretched the land he so longed for. At noon the sun showed itself for an instant. The second
17profited by this brightness to take its height. Then, the sea becoming more billowy, we descended, and the panel closed.
18An hour after, upon consulting the chart, I saw the position of the Nautilus was marked at 16° 17′ long., and 33° 22′
19lat., at 150 leagues from the nearest coast. There was no means of flight, and I leave you to imagine the rage of the
20Canadian when I informed him of our situation. For myself, I was not particularly sorry. I felt lightened of the load
21which had oppressed me, and was able to return with some degree of calmness to my accustomed work. That night, about
22eleven o'clock, I received a most unexpected visit from Captain Nemo. He asked me very graciously if I felt fatigued
23from my watch of the preceding night. I answered in the negative. "Then, M. Aronnax, I propose a curious excursion."
24"Propose, Captain?" "You have hitherto only visited the submarine depths by daylight, under the brightness of the sun.
25Would it suit you to see them in the darkness of the night?" "Most willingly." "I warn you, the way will be tiring. We
26shall have far to walk, and must climb a mountain. The roads are not well kept." "What you say, Captain, only heightens
27my curiosity; I am ready to follow you." "Come then, sir, we will put on our diving-dresses." Arrived at the
28robing-room, I saw that neither of my companions nor any of the ship's crew were to follow us on this excursion. Captain
29Nemo had not even proposed my taking with me either Ned or Conseil. In a few moments we had put on our diving-dresses;
30they placed on our backs the reservoirs, abundantly filled with air, but no electric lamps were prepared. I called the
31Captain's attention to the fact. "They will be useless," he replied. I thought I had not heard aright, but I could not
32repeat my observation, for the Captain's head had already disappeared in its metal case. I finished harnessing myself. I
33felt them put an iron-pointed stick into my hand, and some minutes later, after going through the usual form, we set
34foot on the bottom of the Atlantic at a depth of 150 fathoms. Midnight was near. The waters were profoundly dark, but
35Captain Nemo pointed out in the distance a reddish spot, a sort of large light shining brilliantly about two miles from
36the Nautilus. What this fire might be, what could feed it, why and how it lit up the liquid mass, I could not say. In
37any case, it did light our way, vaguely, it is true, but I soon accustomed myself to the peculiar darkness, and I
38understood, under such circumstances, the uselessness of the Ruhmkorff apparatus. As we advanced, I heard a kind of
39pattering above my head. The noise redoubling, sometimes producing a continual shower, I soon understood the cause. It
40was rain falling violently, and crisping the surface of the waves. Instinctively the thought flashed across my mind that
41I should be wet through! By the water! in the midst of the water! I could not help laughing at the odd idea. But,
42indeed, in the thick diving-dress, the liquid element is no longer felt, and one only seems to be in an atmosphere
43somewhat denser than the terrestrial atmosphere. Nothing more. After half an hour's walk the soil became stony. Medusae,
44microscopic crustacea, and pennatules lit it slightly with their phosphorescent gleam. I caught a glimpse of pieces of
45stone covered with millions of zoophytes and masses of sea weed. My feet often slipped upon this sticky carpet of sea
46weed, and without my iron-tipped stick I should have fallen more than once. In turning round, I could still see the
47whitish lantern of the Nautilus beginning to pale in the distance. But the rosy light which guided us increased and lit
48up the horizon. The presence of this fire under water puzzled me in the highest degree. Was I going towards a natural
49phenomenon as yet unknown to the savants of the earth? Or even (for this thought crossed my brain) had the hand of man
50aught to do with this conflagration? Had he fanned this flame? Was I to meet in these depths companions and friends of
51Captain Nemo whom he was going to visit, and who, like him, led this strange existence? Should I find down there a whole
52colony of exiles who, weary of the miseries of this earth, had sought and found independence in the deep ocean? All
53these foolish and unreasonable ideas pursued me. And in this condition of mind, over-excited by the succession of
54wonders continually passing before my eyes, I should not have been surprised to meet at the bottom of the sea one of
55those submarine towns of which Captain Nemo dreamed. Our road grew lighter and lighter. The white glimmer came in rays
56from the summit of a mountain about 800 feet high. But what I saw was simply a reflection, developed by the clearness of
57the waters. The source of this inexplicable light was a fire on the opposite side of the mountain. In the midst of this
58stony maze furrowing the bottom of the Atlantic, Captain Nemo advanced without hesitation. He knew this dreary road.
59Doubtless he had often travelled over it, and could not lose himself. I followed him with unshaken confidence. He seemed
60to me like a genie of the sea; and, as he walked before me, I could not help admiring his stature, which was outlined in
61black on the luminous horizon. It was one in the morning when we arrived at the first slopes of the mountain; but to
62gain access to them we must venture through the difficult paths of a vast copse.
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