CHAPTER I — THE INDIAN OCEAN

THE INDIAN OCEAN We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo’s life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses. There, not one of the ocean’s monsters could trouble the last sleep of the crew of the _Nautilus_, of those friends riveted to each other in death as in life. “Nor any man, either,” had added t…