The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-11-11

4 note inviting US to a hun; on the
bottom Of the sea. We d0nned diving
suits, then fastened IN sort Of KNAPP
sack which furnished US not only with
air to breath but with the light to
see our way. We carried air-guns
which fired lass bullets heavily charg-
ed with electricity. which had only TO
touch the most powerful animal % kill
him. A connecting compartment filled
thus equipped. ,wadlng on the bottom
Of the clear ocean. we killed our game
with ease and without danger.
That hunt was but the first OF the
wonders Of the cruise. Onward We
rushed. sometimes ON the surface,
sometimes under the sea. There vas
our fight with the immense devil-fish
which once Ia huge school enmeshed
the Nautilus. There was the visit 90
wonderful pearl fishery. where Cap
tain Memo showed Us mollusc with
i'm whose jaws was a De." weighing
perhaps 500 pounds. Some day he
would return and pluck that treasure.
but not yet--evcry year was adding 10
It's value. We visited the skeletons OF
long-snnken ships, the corpses OF the
drowned crew still cilnginG 10 the hull.
of some. We hunted Ia the Papuan
islands where the Nautilus was at
tackled ny the native savages. An cleo
trio current turned them back shocked
and bowling re they could climb
aboard
When one OF the crew died Captain
Memo had him buried In coral glade
in the South Pacific, where was
cross OF red coral that looked like
petrified blood. 1t was a wonderful.
solemn sight to see the pall-bearers
with the dead body on their shoulders.
and all treading so reverentially the
way from the ship to the coral GENE
terry. where at the foot Of the cross
the body WAS inferred and covered up.
All kneIt I'm prayer. Captain Memo
was the last to leave.
"Your dead sleep quietly out OF the
reach Of sharks" said wher we were
back on the Nautilus.
"Of sharks and men," he replied.
We voyaged under colossal icebergs
to the South Pole and all but persisted
there, escaping from an icy tomb only
as our last breath Of storage air was
exhausted. Wonderful was our passage
from the Red sea into the Mediter
ranean by means OF q subterraneaL
tunnel under the isthmus. (This was
before the digging Of the Suez canalO
There we witnessed the transfer Of a
million dollars worth OF gold ingots
from the Nautilus to the vessel Of
Greek diver.
Whence came this store Of gold7
Later we learned.
In vigO bay. on the Spanish coast,
the Nautilus came to rest on bottom.
Here in 1T02 a fleet of Spanish gal
Icons were sunk. and here from this
sunken treasure more than a century
and half later this ruler OF the
underseas came and helped himself
whenever 1t pleased him. "Five nun
dred millions were there" said Cap
tain Memo, "but not now. Do you
see now how with these and the other
treasures of my domain I could pay
the national debt Of France and not
feel itT
We had now been six months aboard
the Nautilus. For me. the scientist, it
was a voyage of ceaseless interest
but not 50 for Conseil and Ned Land.
At their request | pleaded with Cap
tain Memo for our liberty.
"You came to my ship without in
You will now remain her r.
was his grim answer.
We had left the southern her =,
sphere and were in the waters -
France and the British islands wheI
we were pursued by an armed wal
ship. Flying no colors, she attackes
at once. Her cannon shot rebounde0
from our iron hull.
Captain Memo. pointing to her, said:
81 am the oppressed, and there is my
oppressor. Through him / have lost
country. wife. children. father and
mother. Why should I withhold my
vengeanceT
Tie Ndiitu DuA AiC
titus sank below the sea- We felt her
rushing forward, felt the shock Of her
steel ram piercing the hull Of the en-
envy. Through the glass panels we
saw her doomed crew crowding the
ratlines, cIinging to the rails, strug-
Cling In the sea. The Nautilus passed
ON.
saw captain Memo go to his room
and kneel before the portrait OF
woman and two little children. "How
long, O Lord. how longl" he cried out
We steamed north. to that part -
the Norwegian coast where lies that
dreaded maelstrom which draws into
itself all floating things The Nautilus
was II an accldent?--was drawn in
TO the whirlpool. Around and around
she whirIed Even her steel hull felt
the strain we could hear bolts being
pulled out from her Orders. The
Iong-boat was torn from its place on
deck and hurled like a stone into the
whirlpool. lost consciousness.
Whea 7 came to myself, | was In