Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-11-12

bottom of the sea. We d0nhed diving
suits. then fastened on sort Of KNAPP
sack which furnished ps not only with
air to- breathe. but with the light to
see our, way. We carried air-guns
which fred tlass bullets heavily chargsl
ed with electricity; which had only to
7 t6uohc the most powerful animal 20 XIII
him. A connecting compartment -hlled
with water letSus into the sea. ana
thus equipped wading or. the bottom
Of the clear ocean, we Killed our game
with ease and without danger. en- bl
That hunt was bur 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-fish
which once In a huge school enmeshed
the Nautilus. There was the visit to
"a wonderful pearl fishery where Cap
tain. Memo showed US mollusc with
in whose jaws was pearl weighing
perhaps 800 pounds Some day he
would return and pluck that treasure
but not yet7-everyT year was adding to
its value. We visited the skeletons of
long-sunken ships, the corpses Of the
drowned crew still cffnging to the hulls
Of some. I'VE hunted in) the Papuan
islands where the Nautilus was at
tackled by the native sayages,h Ar, cleo
trie current turned them back shocked
and bowling ere they could CLIMB.
aboard "ti''" %""'' 't r.i
when one of the crew died Captain
Memo had him buried in a coral glade
in the South Pacific, where was
cross Of red coral that looked like
petrified blood. 1t was aiwonderful,
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 ceme-
terry. where at the foot OF the cross,
the body was inferred and covered up,
All knelt in prayer. Captain Memo
was the hast to Jleave.af i.@
T"You dead sleep quietly ont OF the
reach of sharks" said when we were
back onthe Nautilus. tfeo ~
"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 a. }subterranean
tunnel under the jsthmus,9 (This was
before the digging of the Suez canalJ
There we witnessed the transfer OF a
million dollars worth of gold ingots
from the Nautilus to the vessel of
Greek diyer.9I ,GogblsW oait
Whence came this store Of goldf
Later we learned. ,,H. n ...gt *
In vigo bay, on the Spanish coast,
the Nautilus came to rest on bottom.
Here in 1902 fleet Of Spanish gall
Icons were sunk. and here from this
spnken treasure more than century
and a half later this ruler of the
underseas came and helped himself
whenever 1t pleased him. 'fFlve nun
bred millions were there" saidaCap-
tain Memo. 'but not now. Do you
see now how with these, and the other
|. treasures Of my domain / could pay
1'the national debt Of France and not
| feel it?rab naa OGiS raIpp w bsi' AZ
laQ We had now been six months aboard
the. Nautilus For me, the scientist, IT
was voyage, of ceaseless interest
but not so for, Conseil and Ned Land.
At their request pleaded with Cap
tain Memo for our libertyyGaa 30,
"You came to my ship without In
vitation.i You will now remain here"
was his grim answer.
We had left the southern ffemi-
sphere and were in the waters of
France and the British islands when
we were pursued by an armed war
I ship. Flying no colors. She attacked
at once. Her cannon shot rebounded
from our iron hulha rnsl aoao 81
bs4C 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
vengeance?ra DnG ltliug totyHay 1A
He called out his orders. The Nau'
titus sank below the, sea. We felt hei
rushing forward, felt the, shock Of hei
steel ram piercing the huh of the en-
! 4 envy. Through the glass panels We
bsawf her doomed crew icrowding ths
. ratlines, clinging to the, rails, strug
Cling in the sea. The Nautilus passed
y on.D .y9uBTnEV "a 210I iltW
sbisI.saw captain Memo go to his roor
and kneel before the portrait of
woman and two little children. "Hov
rS LS&&{ Sn,xo ~ No rrind mt