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1FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZON How I got on to the platform, I have no idea; perhaps the Canadian had carried me there.
2But I breathed, I inhaled the vivifying sea-air. My two companions were getting drunk with the fresh particles. The
3other unhappy men had been so long without food, that they could not with impunity indulge in the simplest aliments that
4were given them. We, on the contrary, had no end to restrain ourselves; we could draw this air freely into our lungs,
5and it was the breeze, the breeze alone, that filled us with this keen enjoyment. "Ah!" said Conseil, "how delightful
6this oxygen is! Master need not fear to breathe it. There is enough for everybody." Ned Land did not speak, but he
7opened his jaws wide enough to frighten a shark. Our strength soon returned, and, when I looked round me, I saw we were
8alone on the platform. The foreign seamen in the Nautilus were contented with the air that circulated in the interior;
9none of them had come to drink in the open air. The first words I spoke were words of gratitude and thankfulness to my
10two companions. Ned and Conseil had prolonged my life during the last hours of this long agony. All my gratitude could
11not repay such devotion. "My friends," said I, "we are bound one to the other for ever, and I am under infinite
12obligations to you." "Which I shall take advantage of," exclaimed the Canadian. "What do you mean?" said Conseil. "I
13mean that I shall take you with me when I leave this infernal Nautilus." "Well," said Conseil, "after all this, are we
14going right?" "Yes," I replied, "for we are going the way of the sun, and here the sun is in the north." "No doubt,"
15said Ned Land; "but it remains to be seen whether he will bring the ship into the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean, that
16is, into frequented or deserted seas." I could not answer that question, and I feared that Captain Nemo would rather
17take us to the vast ocean that touches the coasts of Asia and America at the same time. He would thus complete the tour
18round the submarine world, and return to those waters in which the Nautilus could sail freely. We ought, before long, to
19settle this important point. The Nautilus went at a rapid pace. The polar circle was soon passed, and the course shaped
20for Cape Horn. We were off the American point, March 31st, at seven o'clock in the evening. Then all our past sufferings
21were forgotten. The remembrance of that imprisonment in the ice was effaced from our minds. We only thought of the
22future. Captain Nemo did not appear again either in the drawing-room or on the platform. The point shown each day on the
23planisphere, and, marked by the lieutenant, showed me the exact direction of the Nautilus. Now, on that evening, it was
24evident, to my great satisfaction, that we were going back to the North by the Atlantic. The next day, April 1st, when
25the Nautilus ascended to the surface some minutes before noon, we sighted land to the west. It was Terra del Fuego,
26which the first navigators named thus from seeing the quantity of smoke that rose from the natives' huts. The coast
27seemed low to me, but in the distance rose high mountains. I even thought I had a glimpse of Mount Sarmiento, that rises
282,070 yards above the level of the sea, with a very pointed summit, which, according as it is misty or clear, is a sign
29of fine or of wet weather. At this moment the peak was clearly defined against the sky. The Nautilus, diving again under
30the water, approached the coast, which was only some few miles off. From the glass windows in the drawing-room, I saw
31long seaweeds and gigantic fuci and varech, of which the open polar sea contains so many specimens, with their sharp
32polished filaments; they measured about 300 yards in length--real cables, thicker than one's thumb; and, having great
33tenacity, they are often used as ropes for vessels. Another weed known as velp, with leaves four feet long, buried in
34the coral concretions, hung at the bottom. It served as nest and food for myriads of crustacea and molluscs, crabs, and
35cuttlefish. There seals and otters had splendid repasts, eating the flesh of fish with sea-vegetables, according to the
36English fashion. Over this fertile and luxuriant ground the Nautilus passed with great rapidity. Towards evening it
37approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. The depth of the sea was
38moderate. On the shores our nets brought in beautiful specimens of sea weed, and particularly a certain fucus, the roots
39of which were filled with the best mussels in the world. Geese and ducks fell by dozens on the platform, and soon took
40their places in the pantry on board. When the last heights of the Falklands had disappeared from the horizon, the
41Nautilus sank to between twenty and twenty-five yards, and followed the American coast. Captain Nemo did not show
42himself. Until the 3rd of April we did not quit the shores of Patagonia, sometimes under the ocean, sometimes at the
43surface. The Nautilus passed beyond the large estuary formed by the Plata, and was, on the 4th of April, fifty-six miles
44off Uraguay. Its direction was northwards, and followed the long windings of the coast of South America. We had then
45made 1,600 miles since our embarkation in the seas of Japan. About eleven o'clock in the morning the Tropic of Capricorn
46was crossed on the thirty-seventh meridian, and we passed Cape Frio standing out to sea. Captain Nemo, to Ned Land's
47great displeasure, did not like the neighbourhood of the inhabited coasts of Brazil, for we went at a giddy speed. Not a
48fish, not a bird of the swiftest kind could follow us, and the natural curiosities of these seas escaped all
49observation. This speed was kept up for several days, and in the evening of the 9th of April we sighted the most
50easterly point of South America that forms Cape San Roque. But then the Nautilus swerved again, and sought the lowest
51depth of a submarine valley which is between this Cape and Sierra Leone on the African coast. This valley bifurcates to
52the parallel of the Antilles, and terminates at the north by the enormous depression of 9,000 yards. In this place, the
53geological basin of the ocean forms, as far as the Lesser Antilles, a cliff of three and a half miles perpendicular in
54height, and, at the parallel of the Cape Verde Islands, another wall not less considerable, that encloses thus all the
55sunk continent of the Atlantic. The bottom of this immense valley is dotted with some mountains, that give to these
56submarine places a picturesque aspect. I speak, moreover, from the manuscript charts that were in the library of the
57Nautilus--charts evidently due to Captain Nemo's hand, and made after his personal observations. For two days the desert
58and deep waters were visited by means of the inclined planes. The Nautilus was furnished with long diagonal broadsides
59which carried it to all elevations. But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the
60Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considerable that it freshens the sea-water for the distance
61of several leagues.
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