CHAPTER XVIII — VANIKORO

VANIKORO This terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes that the _Nautilus_ was destined to meet with in its route. As long as it went through more frequented waters, we often saw the hulls of shipwrecked vessels that were rotting in the depths, and deeper down cannons, bullets, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron materials eaten up by rust. However, on the 11th of December we sighted the Pomotou Islands, the old “dangerous group” of Bougainville, that extend over a space o…