CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER
I A SHIFTING REEF
II PRO AND CON
III I FORM MY RESOLUTION
IV NED LAND
V AT A VENTURE
VI AT FULL STEAM
VII AN UNKNOWN SPECIES OF WHALE
VIII MOBILIS IN MOBILI
IX NED LAND'S TEMPERS
X THE MAN OF THE SEAS
XI ALL BY ELECTRICITY
XII SOME FIGURES
XIII THE BLACK RIVER
XIV A NOTE OF INVITATION
XV A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
XVI A SUBMARINE FOREST
FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE
XVII
PACIFIC
XVIII VANIKORO
XIX TORRES STRAITS
XX A FEW DAYS ON LAND
XXI CAPTAIN NEMO'S THUNDERBOLT
XXII "AEGRI SOMNIA"
XXIII THE CORAL KINGDOM
 A seaman could not be mistaken, and I told the Canadian all that had passed
during his sleep.

"Good!" said he. "That accounts for those roarings we heard, when the
supposed narwhal sighted the Abraham Lincoln."

"Quite so, Master Land; it was taking breath."

"Only, Mr. Aronnax, I have no idea what o'clock it is, unless it is dinner-
time."

"Dinner-time! my good fellow? Say rather breakfast-time, for we certainly

have begun another day."

"So," said Conseil, "we have slept twenty-four hours?"

"That is my opinion."

"I will not contradict you," replied Ned Land. "But, dinner or breakfast, the
steward will be welcome, whichever he brings."

"Master Land, we must conform to the rules on board, and I suppose our
appetites are in advance of the dinner hour."

"That is just like you, friend Conseil," said Ned, impatiently. "You are never
out of temper, always calm; you would return thanks before grace, and die of
hunger rather than complain!"

Time was getting on, and we were fearfully hungry; and this time the steward
did not appear. It was rather too long to leave us, if they really had good
intentions towards us. Ned Land, tormented by the cravings of hunger, got still
more angry; and, notwithstanding his promise, I dreaded an explosion when he
found himself with one of the crew.

For two hours more Ned Land's temper increased; he cried, he shouted, but in
vain. The walls were deaf. There was no sound to be heard in the boat; all was
still as death. It did not move, for I should have felt the trembling motion of the
hull under the influence of the screw. Plunged in the depths of the waters, it
belonged no longer to earth: this silence was dreadful.