![]() Following the episode of the devilfish, Nemo largely avoids Aronnax, who begins to side with Ned Land. The novel's later pages suggest that Captain Nemo went into undersea exile after his homeland was conquered and his family slaughtered by a powerful imperialist nation. When the submarine returns to the Atlantic Ocean, a school of giant squid ("devilfish") attacks the vessel and kills another crewman. The passengers also don diving suits, hunt sharks and other marine fauna with air guns in the underwater forests of Crespo Island, and also attend an undersea funeral for a crew member who died during a mysterious collision experienced by the Nautilus. They even travel to the South Pole and are trapped in an upheaval of an iceberg on the way back, caught in a narrow gallery of ice from which they are forced to dig themselves out. The travelers view coral formations, sunken vessels from the Battle of Vigo Bay, the Antarctic ice barrier, the Transatlantic telegraph cable, and the legendary underwater realm of Atlantis. They visit many ocean regions, some factual and others fictitious. Nemo explains that his submarine is electrically powered and can conduct advanced marine research he also tells his new passengers that his secret existence means he cannot let them leave - they must remain on board permanently. In self-imposed exile, Captain Nemo seems to have a dual motivation - a quest for scientific knowledge and a desire to escape terrestrial civilization. The rest of the novel describes the protagonists' adventures aboard the Nautilus, which was built in secrecy and now roams the seas beyond the reach of land-based governments. They wait on the deck of the vessel until morning, when they are captured, hauled inside, and introduced to the submarine's mysterious constructor and commander, Captain Nemo. They survive by climbing onto the "monster", which, they are startled to find, is a futuristic submarine. Aronnax and Land are hurled into the sea, and Conseil jumps into the water after them. After a five-month search ending off Japan, the frigate locates and attacks the monster, which damages the ship's rudder. The expedition leaves Brooklyn aboard the United States Navy frigate Abraham Lincoln, then travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean. ![]() Canadian whaler and master harpooner Ned Land and Aronnax's faithful manservant Conseil are also among the participants. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and the story's narrator, is in town at the time and receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition he accepts. government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riouĭuring the year 1866, ships of various nationalities sight a mysterious sea monster, which, it is later suggested, might be a gigantic narwhal.
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