The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-12-04

sui,S' n,ah furnished us not onty "itn
or TO breathe, but with the Ign inns IS
see our way. We carried az 80
wh;ch fred lass bullets heavily s =
~ with electricity, which had only ~
su ,o NIL tho most powerful animal 20 kli,
him 4 connecting compartment n IA
With water let us into the sen. aa ~
fms equipped, wading on ,he Do aana
- tho clear ocean, we killed our gums
,.,, oose and without danger.
WIZ, M. hunt was but the first or the
wonders of the cruise. oh"a.u -
,,,sbad sometimes on the suri"'
'.a e.., under the sea. There was
81. eght with the immense devii-nsn
,,h;.h onee in a huge school enmesneo
tha Nautilus. There was the sl'r ~
> wonderful pearl fishery, wheFe al
IT. Memo showed us a mollusc WIN
- ,,hoea laws was a pearl Weighing
nerhaps 500 pounds. Some das ne
would return and pluck that 'feasu'
Int not yet-every year was a"ulns ~ -
as r,l,,e we visited the skelet"as ol
lone-sunken ships. the corpses :. ene
drowned crew still ciingins to the au'is
Of some. We hunted in the eapua'
Islands where the Nautilus was AZ
tacked nv the native savages. An eiee-
tr,c current turned them back shofKea
and bowling ere they could eaimo
aboard.
when one of the crew died Captain
Memo had him buried in a coral sia,ie
in the South Pacific. where vas
cross of red coral that looked IKE
petrified blood. It was wonaefiui'
solemn sight to see the pali-Deafefs
with the dead body on their shouiders'
and all treading so reverentiaiiV the
way from the ship to the corai GENE
ferry. where at the foot Of the cross
The body was Inferred and covered up
All kneit 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.
"Of sharks and men," he replieu-
We voyaged under colossal icebergs-
to the South Pole and all but persisted
there, escaping from an icy tomb only
ms our last breath Of storage air was
exhausted. Wonderful was our passage
from the Red sea into the Methter5
ranean by means OF a subterranean
tunnel under the isthmus. {This was
before the digging of the Suez canai.1
There we witnessed the transfer of a
million dollars worth of gold ingotss
from the Nautilus to the vessel Of .
Greek diver
Whence came this store OF gcld7
Later we learned.
In vigo bay, on the Spanish coast.
the Nautilus came to rest on bottom.
Here in 1902 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
it pleased him. Five faun-
bred millions were there" said Cap
tain Memo, "but not now. Do yOu
see now how with these and the other
treasures of my domain could pay
the national debt of France and not
feel it,"
We had now been six months aboard
the Nautilus. For me. the scientist, it,
was a voyage of eeaseless interest
but not so for conseil and Ned Land.
At their request I pleaded with Cap
tain Memo for our liberty.
"You came to my ship without in
You will now remain here. :"
was his grim answer.
We had left the southern hemi-
sphere and were in the waters off
France and the British islands when
we were pursued BY an armed war
ship. Flying no colors. she attacked
at once. Her cannon shot rebounded
from our iron hull.
! Captain Memo, pointing to her, said ::
n am the oppressed, and there IS my
Through him / have lost
country, wife, children. father and
mother. Why should I withhold my
He called out his orders. The Maui
illus sank below the sea. We felt her
rfishing forward. felt the shock Of her
Steel ram piercing the hull OF the en-
emy.s Through the glass panels we
Jaw her doomed crew crowding the
tatishes, 1cIinsing to the rails, strug-
ding DIN the sea. The Nautilus passed
On
] saw captain Memo go to his room
md kneel before the portrait Of a
woman andxtwo little children. .sHow.
ong. @ Lord. how long!s he cried out.
We steamed north, to that part of
The Norwegian coast where lies that
dreaded maelstrom which draws into
itself all floating things. The Nautilus
was It an accident Twas drawn in
% the whirlpool. Around and around
;he whiried. Even her steel hull felt
he strain; we could hear bolts being
pulled out from her Orders. The
ongrboat was torn from its place On
1eck and hurled ike stone into thS
I lost consciousness.
When I came to myself, was ID 4
I,offoden fisherman's Init. and Conseil
md Ned Land were chafng my hands.
So ended our voyage or 10000