The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

tain Memo, with one of his sailors and his guests, did hunt in the submarine forests of the Island of Crespo-forests of huge sea plants inhabited by various and strange marine animals
 Powerful electric lights, fed from storage batteries, were affixed to the front of their helmets, lights which might be turned on or off at pleasure and with which they could, when nec- essary, illuminate the shadows of the submarine forest or the darkness of the ocean caves. Their guns fired cleo tric bullets, miniature batteries of high power. which were projected from the barrel by compressed air, and the whole mechanism of the gun was wa tertight and waterproof In order to get to their happy hunting grounds they first went into a sort of robing room, where they put on their div ing apparatus. Then the sea water was let into this apartment, a sliding panel opened in the side of the Nautilus which lay on the bottom, and they stepped forth upon the floor of the sea-
 After beholding the wonders of the Pacific and having many strange ad- ventures, the prisoners of the Nau-. | titus found themselves on January IS in the Indian ocean, to the south of the Sunda Islands and to the eastward of Australia. It was a morning threat ening storm. and the sea, along the surface of which the Nautilus was | Q ,ert .rnF with his two companions was on the platform, as were also Captain Memo and his lieutepant. who was scanning the horizon with a sea glass Suddenly the lieutenant turned with evident sup pressed excitement and said something to the captain in their strange tongue The professor put his glass to his eyes, it 1t was dashed from his hand. He turned to see Captain Memo standing before him-but how changed. His eyes flashed sullenly.s his teeth were set, his body stiff, his fists clenched. His head was shrunk between his shoulders and 9 violent agitation seemed to pervade his whole frame. M. Aronnax,' said
 
 self, you and your companions must be confined In your cabins until think fit to release you-such was our con tract
 Not only were the three confined in their cabins, but in the food which was supplied them just before they were shut up some soporifc had been mixed, so that they slept soundy. It was the next morning when they awoke Cap tain Memo, calm, pale and now appar- ently somewhat dejected came to the professor and asked him if he knew anything of medicine and surgery. The professor did and he was taken to visit a man. one of the crew, who had been badly wounded in the head in the mys- terious affair which had taken place while the prisoners had been asleep in. their cabins. The injured man was about 40 years of age, with a reso- lute expression, true type of the An Saxon.
 He will be dead Tn two hours" said the professor. Tears stood in Captain Nemo's eyes. The man died and the next morning they buried him in a graveyard at the bottom of the sea, whither they went in their diving out fit. It was In vast glade surrounded by a submarine forest-and there were coral crosses erected there marking other graves.
 They proceeded through the Indian ocean and up the Red sea, all the while seeing new wonders unrolled before them. lThen, through a tunnel which led be- heath the Isthmus of Suez, they entered the Mediterranean. Off the south end of Greece a curious thing happened. man, evidently a Greek. came swimming be- low the surface of the water rising now and then to take breath, straight to the Nautilus. which was lying motionless just beneath the surface. The sliding plates were open and the diver flattened his face against the glass of the saloon. Memo made sign to him and he disap- peared. Going to sort of strong box, the captain filled from 1t chest full of gold ingots, and a little later the profess sor heard men taking the chest up to the platform on the back of the vessel which arose to the surface. Whence came this precious metal which represented an enormous sum? For what was it destin- ed? All was mysterious. The ad- dress which Aronnax had seen them write on the lid of the chest was in modern Creek
 Passing quickly through the length of the Mediterranean the Nautilus entered the Atlantic and make her way to vigo bay. There she sank beneath the waters and at the bottom of the bay Aronnax saw lying that great fleet, laden with the I gold and silver of Mexico and Peru, which was sunk there in the great naval battle of October 22 1702, when the Anglo Dutch fleet sunk the galleons of Spain. Here inestmable treasure lay about-it was Captain Nemo's banking house, the source from which he drew his endless wealth.
 Taking the Nautilus to another part of the ocean Captain Memo showed the pro- lessor the lost Atlantis, that continent which, ancient legends say, once sank be- heath the waves in vast eonvulsion of nature. Ip their divers suits they made their way through a great forest, still standing as 1t had been when the conti- nent which bore 1t was ingulfed, and now all petrified by the action of the sea Ewater. From the slopes of a submarine volcano. which lit up with lurid light