The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-11-12

H|S@I 80 - 1850
ed with electricity, which had only tC
touch the most powerful animal to kill
him. A connecting compartment filled
with water let us into the sea-. And
thus equipped, wading 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 was
our fight with the immense devil-1sh
which once in a huge school enmeshed
the Nautilus. There was the visit to
a wonderful pearl fishery, where Cap
tain Memo showed us a mOllusc with
in whose jaws was a pearl weighing
perhaps 800 pounds. Some day he
would return and pluck that treasure,
but not yet-every year was adding to
its value. We visited the skeletons of
long-sunken ships, the corpses of the
drowned crew still clinging to the hulls
Of some. We hunted in the Papuan
islands where the Nautilus was at
tackled by the native savages. An cleo
trio current turned them back shocked
and bowling ere they could climb
aboard.
When one Of the crew died Captain
Memo had him buried in a coral glade
In the South Pacific, where a a
ros Of red coral that looked like
petrifed blood. It was a wonderful,
solemn sight to see the pall-bearers
with the dead body on their shoulders,
and all treadlng so ~reverentiaily 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 knelt in prayer. Captain Memo
was the last to leave.
"Your dead sleep quietly out of the
reach of sharks" / said when we were
back on the Nautilus.
"0f 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
the Red sea into the Mediter-
by means Of a subterranean
tunnel under the isthmus. (This was
before the digging of the Suez canal.)
we witnessed the transfer of a
dollars worth of gold ingots
the Nautilus to the vessel of a
Greek diver.
Whence came this store of gold2
Later we learned.
In Vigo bay, on the Spanish coast,
the Nautilus came to rest on bottom.
Here in 1902 a fleet of Spanish gal
cons were sunk, and here from this
treasure mor than a century
and a half later this ruler of the
lnderseas came and helped himself
whenever 1t pleased him. give nun
ired millions were there" said Cap
ain Memo, "but not now. Do you
zee now how with these and the other
treasures of my domain I could pay
he national debt of France and not
EEL itf"
We had now been six months aboard
he Nautilus. For me, the scientist, 1t
vas a voyage Of ceaseless interest;
tut not so for Conseil and Ned Land.
their request / pleaded with Cap
ain Memo for our liberty.
"You came to my ship without In
-itation. You will now remain here"
vas his grim answer.
We had left the southern hemi-
phere and were in the waters off
rance and the British islands when
We were pursued by an armed war
hip. Flying no colors, she attacked
{ once. Her cannon shot rebounded
rom our iron hull.
Captain Memo, pointing to her, said:
I am the oppressed, and there is my
ppressor. Through him / have lost
ountry, wife, children, father and
Why should l withhold my
engeance?
He called out his orders. The Maui
llus sank below the sea. We felt her
forward, felt the shock Of her
teel ran piercing the hull Of the en-
my. Through the glass panels we
aw her doomed crew crowding the
atlines, clinging to the rails, strug-
ling in the sea. The Nautilus passed
n.
1 saw captain Memo 60 to his room
nd kneel before the portrait OF a
and two little children. How
,ng. o Lord, how longi" he cried out.
We steamed north, to that part Of
he Norwegian coast where lies that
maelstrom which draws into
self all floating things. The Nautilus
was II an accident?-was drawn In
, the whirlpool. Around and around
he whirled. Even her steel hull felt
he strain; we could hear bolts being
ulled out from her Orders. The
'ng-boat was torn from It's place on
eek and hurled like a stone Into the
hirlpool, l lost consciousness.
When I came to myself, / was In q
offoden isherman's hut, and Conseil
nd Ned Land YER chafing my hands.
So ended our voyage Of 10000 ]
under the sea. What became I
Captain Memo and his strange I