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Like Captain Nemo's voyage's into the sea,
we drift the endless currents of the internet. Where will we
surface next? Only the Captain truly knows.
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But what has become of the Nautilus? Did it resist the pressure of
the maelstrom? Does Captain Nemo still live? And does he still follow under the
ocean those frightful retaliations? Or, did he stop after that last hecatomb?
Will the waves one day carry to him this manuscript containing the history of
his life? Shall I ever know the name of this man? Will the missing vessel tell
us by its nationality that of Captain Nemo? I hope so. And I also hope that his
powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the
Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost! If it be so-
if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be
appeased in that savage heart! May the contemplation of so many wonders
extinguish forever the spirit of vengeance! May the judge disappear, and the
philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea! If his destiny be
strange, it is also sublime. Have I not understood it myself? Have I not lived
ten months of this unnatural life? And to the question asked by Ecclesiastes
3,000 years ago, "That which is far off and exceeding deep, who can find it
out?" two men alone of all now living have the right to give an answer - CAPTAIN
NEMO AND MYSELF.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
In 1838, the Englishman Wilkes went along the hundredth meridian
as far as the sixty-ninth parallel. In 1839, the Englishman Balleny discovered
Sabrina Land on the edge of the Antarctic Circle. Then on January 12, 1842, the
Englishman James Ross, commanding the Erebus and the Terror, discovered Victoria
Land at 76o 56' S. Lat. and 171o 7' E. Long. On the twenty-third of the same
month he reached the seventy-fourth parallel, the farthest point attained till
then; on the twenty-seventh he reached 76o 8', on the twenty-eighth 77o 32' and
on February 2 78o 4'. Later in 1842, he returned but could get no farther than
the seventy-first parallel. And then on March 21, 1868, 1, Captain Nemo, reached
the South Pole at a latitude of 90o and took possession of this portion of the
globe equal in area to a sixth of all known continents.' " Captain
Nemo
Professor Aronnax: "You cannot do this! This is uncivilized!"
Captain Nemo: "I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me, therefore I do not obey its laws."
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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