Connecticut western news., 1920-07-01


 Ra~ long been pointed out, March "A, y WAS leaning forward on the star
 board bulwark, my servant Con-
 sell beside me, when the voice of Mad Land, the big harpooner, broke aaR silence. "Look There is the Hing we are looking for!' he cried.
 We all saw the sea monster, or Mafatever 1t was, which we had been nRntfng for months. It made off as ER charged. We gave chase. Through anae all that night and next day we Rrgsued. We stopped. It stopped. 8suce 1t allowed us to creep close to H- and as we crept 1t rammed us.
 The shock of collision threw me into HkR sea. would have drowned but for Eg faithful Conseil. He supported me tn the hard metallic back of the mon- sBers Here we were joined by Ned EAnd. AS we were resting there eight masked men came through a hatch and drew us down into the bowels of waat we now saw was not a monster, hnf strange kind of sea craft Thus hsgan the strange voyage with that Muarkable character who called him. HhT Captain Memo, and in that strange wanderful ship which he called the EHatilus.
 The Nautilus was a cigar-shaped aaseI ship of 232 feet in length, 26 feet Nzam and 1,500 tons dead weight. There were two hulls, one inside the naher joined by T-shaped irons, which Mudered them of almost uncrushable mshength. She was driven by electric sEgines of tremendous power. Tanks Rffch could be filled or emptied at wndT enabled her to cruise on the sur IEee or under the water as she pleased.
 She was fitted with all kinds of wsrking and lounging quarters. In Mrary were books on the sciences, HUrals, literature of almost every ian Enage. There was a drawing room wsfh a luminous ceiling which served nRso as museum, and into which an hSeiligent hand had gathered subma- Esae treasures of the world: the rarest H2ells, pearls of all colors and beyond yrfee, every variety of uDdersea vege- satfon; also paintings of the masters, admirable statues in marble and hronze, a great organ piano.
 From the inside of her a staircase kd to a platform or deck from which mse two cages, partly enclosed by thfek glasses. One cage was for the H~ry nfh foin o1o Rfc searchlight to light the course ag the ship in dark waters. On this rSatform also was place wherein was aGored long-boat.
 Captain Memo was tall and robustly- fsHfIt,l with pale skin, lofty brow. and Ene fine taper hands of highly nerv- GUS temperament. He spoke French, English, German, Latin, all equally well. He may have been thirty-five, Rs may have been fifty years old.
 It was on November 6, 1866, with the coast of Japan in view, that this strange captain told us we were pris 0ners for him to do with as he pleased. 1And now," he added, tour course is K N. B. and our cruising depth 26 Eathoms. leave you to the resources oE these quarters and your own re- factions"
 We remained mute, not knowing what surprise awaited us. Suddenly G&zzling light broke in on us. We saw fiat only glass panels separated us'from Ez sea which was illuminated far to esther side by the powerful electric aeams from the ship. What a spec thelel An army of undersea creatures escorted us. They were various and Beautiful in the clear water, many
 own, but hundreds unknown to us.
 = heard and saw nothing of the