The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-05-27

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sack which furnished us not only viii
air TO breathe. but with the light t.
see our way. We carried air-guns
which fired class bullets heavily charg
ed with electricity. which had only e
touch the most powerful animal 20 XIII
him. A connecting compartment filled
with wafer let us into the sea. An'
thus equipped, wading on the bottom
of the clear ocean, we killed our gam,
with ease and without danger.
That hunt was but the first of thi
wonders of the cruise. Onward w
rushed, sometimes on the surface
sometimes under the sea. There wa
our fight with the immense devil-isl
which once in huge school enmeshe,
the Nautilus There was the visit 4,
a wonderful pearl fishery, where Cap
tain Memo showed us 4 molusc with
in whose jaws was pearl weighing
perhaps 500 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 was a
cross of red coral that looked like
petrifed 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 knelt in prayer. Captain Memo
was the last to leave.
your dead sleep quietly out of the
reach of sharks" I said when 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 Medlter-
tunnel under the isthmus. (This was
before the digging of the Suez canal.)
There we witnessed the transfer of
million dollars worth of gold ingots
from the Nautilus to the vessel of a
Greek diver.
Whence came this store of gold?
Later we learned.
In Vigo bay, on the Spanish coast,
he Nautilus came to rest on bottom.
Here in 1902 fleet of Spanish gal
cons were sunk, and here from this
;unken treasure more than a century
md half later this ruler of the
came and helped himself
whenever ii pleased him. "Five nun
lred millions were there" said Cap
ain Memo. "but not now. Do you
zee now how with these and the other
treasures of my domain l could pay
he national debt of France and not
eel it?
We had now been six months aboard
he Nautilus. For me. the scientist, II
vas a voyage of ceaseless interest,"
at not so for COnseil and Ned Land
Il their request l pleaded with Cap
ain Memo for our liberty.
"You came to my ship without in.
itation. You will now remain here
'as his grim answer.
We had left the southern hemi-
phere and were in the waters of
rance and the British islands when
e were pursued by an armed war
Zip. Flying no colors, she attacked
/ once. Her cannon shot rebounde0
'om our iron hull.
Captain Memo, pointing to her, said
am the oppressed, and there is my
)pressor. Through him / have lost
,untry, wife, children, father and
He called out his orders. The Maui
us sank below the sea. We felt her
shing forward, felt the shock of her
eel ram piercing the hull of the en-
ny. Through the glass panels we
W her doomed crew crowding the
times, clinging to the rails, strug
ing in the sea. The Nautilus passed
saw captain Memo go to his room I.
d kneel before the portrait of a !:
)man and two little children. GLOW ::
lg, o Lord, how long" he cried out. |.
We steamed north, to that part CT I
e Norwegian coast where lies that !.
eaded maelstrom which draws into I
elf all floating things. The Nautilus /.
was ii an accident?-was drawn in !;
the whirlpool. Around and around I.
2 whirled. Even her steel hull felt
! strain; we could hear bolts being
He'd out from her Orders. The
ig-boat was torn from its place on
FIX and hurled like a stone into the
irlpool. / lost consciousness.
When came to myself was in q
fOden fisherman's hut, and Conseil
] Ned Land were chatting my hands. !
10 ended our voyage of 10000
CUES under the sea. What became