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1He looked at me with his arms crossed. "Sir," I said, "to return a second time to this subject will be neither to your
2nor to my taste; but, as we have entered upon it, let us go through with it. I repeat, it is not only myself whom it
3concerns. Study is to me a relief, a diversion, a passion that could make me forget everything. Like you, I am willing
4to live obscure, in the frail hope of bequeathing one day, to future time, the result of my labours. But it is otherwise
5with Ned Land. Every man, worthy of the name, deserves some consideration. Have you thought that love of liberty, hatred
6of slavery, can give rise to schemes of revenge in a nature like the Canadian's; that he could think, attempt, and
7try----" I was silenced; Captain Nemo rose. "Whatever Ned Land thinks of, attempts, or tries, what does it matter to me?
8I did not seek him! It is not for my pleasure that I keep him on board! As for you, M. Aronnax, you are one of those who
9can understand everything, even silence. I have nothing more to say to you. Let this first time you have come to treat
10of this subject be the last, for a second time I will not listen to you." I retired. Our situation was critical. I
11related my conversation to my two companions. "We know now," said Ned, "that we can expect nothing from this man. The
12Nautilus is nearing Long Island. We will escape, whatever the weather may be." But the sky became more and more
13threatening. Symptoms of a hurricane became manifest. The atmosphere was becoming white and misty. On the horizon fine
14streaks of cirrhous clouds were succeeded by masses of cumuli. Other low clouds passed swiftly by. The swollen sea rose
15in huge billows. The birds disappeared with the exception of the petrels, those friends of the storm. The barometer fell
16sensibly, and indicated an extreme tension of the vapours. The mixture of the storm glass was decomposed under the
17influence of the electricity that pervaded the atmosphere. The tempest burst on the 18th of May, just as the Nautilus
18was floating off Long Island, some miles from the port of New York. I can describe this strife of the elements! for,
19instead of fleeing to the depths of the sea, Captain Nemo, by an unaccountable caprice, would brave it at the surface.
20The wind blew from the south-west at first. Captain Nemo, during the squalls, had taken his place on the platform. He
21had made himself fast, to prevent being washed overboard by the monstrous waves. I had hoisted myself up, and made
22myself fast also, dividing my admiration between the tempest and this extraordinary man who was coping with it. The
23raging sea was swept by huge cloud-drifts, which were actually saturated with the waves. The Nautilus, sometimes lying
24on its side, sometimes standing up like a mast, rolled and pitched terribly. About five o'clock a torrent of rain fell,
25that lulled neither sea nor wind. The hurricane blew nearly forty leagues an hour. It is under these conditions that it
26overturns houses, breaks iron gates, displaces twenty-four pounders. However, the Nautilus, in the midst of the tempest,
27confirmed the words of a clever engineer, "There is no well-constructed hull that cannot defy the sea." This was not a
28resisting rock; it was a steel spindle, obedient and movable, without rigging or masts, that braved its fury with
29impunity. However, I watched these raging waves attentively. They measured fifteen feet in height, and 150 to 175 yards
30long, and their speed of propagation was thirty feet per second. Their bulk and power increased with the depth of the
31water. Such waves as these, at the Hebrides, have displaced a mass weighing 8,400 lbs. They are they which, in the
32tempest of December 23rd, 1864, after destroying the town of Yeddo, in Japan, broke the same day on the shores of
33America. The intensity of the tempest increased with the night. The barometer, as in 1860 at Reunion during a cyclone,
34fell seven-tenths at the close of day. I saw a large vessel pass the horizon struggling painfully. She was trying to lie
35to under half steam, to keep up above the waves. It was probably one of the steamers of the line from New York to
36Liverpool, or Havre. It soon disappeared in the gloom. At ten o'clock in the evening the sky was on fire. The atmosphere
37was streaked with vivid lightning. I could not bear the brightness of it; while the captain, looking at it, seemed to
38envy the spirit of the tempest. A terrible noise filled the air, a complex noise, made up of the howls of the crushed
39waves, the roaring of the wind, and the claps of thunder. The wind veered suddenly to all points of the horizon; and the
40cyclone, rising in the east, returned after passing by the north, west, and south, in the inverse course pursued by the
41circular storm of the southern hemisphere. Ah, that Gulf Stream! It deserves its name of the King of Tempests. It is
42that which causes those formidable cyclones, by the difference of temperature between its air and its currents. A shower
43of fire had succeeded the rain. The drops of water were changed to sharp spikes. One would have thought that Captain
44Nemo was courting a death worthy of himself, a death by lightning. As the Nautilus, pitching dreadfully, raised its
45steel spur in the air, it seemed to act as a conductor, and I saw long sparks burst from it. Crushed and without
46strength I crawled to the panel, opened it, and descended to the saloon. The storm was then at its height. It was
47impossible to stand upright in the interior of the Nautilus. Captain Nemo came down about twelve. I heard the reservoirs
48filling by degrees, and the Nautilus sank slowly beneath the waves. Through the open windows in the saloon I saw large
49fish terrified, passing like phantoms in the water. Some were struck before my eyes. The Nautilus was still descending.
50I thought that at about eight fathoms deep we should find a calm. But no! the upper beds were too violently agitated for
51that. We had to seek repose at more than twenty-five fathoms in the bowels of the deep. But there, what quiet, what
52silence, what peace! Who could have told that such a hurricane had been let loose on the surface of that ocean?
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