Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Jules Verne

XII SOME FIGURES XIII THE BLACK RIVER XIV A NOTE OF INVITATION XV A WALK ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA XVI A SUBMARINE FOREST XVII FOUR THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE PACIFIC XVIII VANIKORO XIX TORRES STRAITS XX A FEW DAYS ON LAND XXI CAPTAIN NEMO'S THUNDERBOLT XXII "AEGRI SOMNIA" XXIII THE CORAL KINGDOM

PART II

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CHAPTER
I	THE INDIAN OCEAN
II	A NOVEL PROPOSAL OF CAPTAIN NEMO'S
III	A PEARL OF TEN MILLIONS
IV	THE RED SEA
V	THE ARABIAN TUNNEL
VI	THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO
VII	THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
VIII	VIGO BAY
IX	A VANISHED CONTINENT
X	THE SUBMARINE COAL-MINES
XI	THE SARGASSO SEA
XII	CACHALOTS AND WHALES
XIII	THE ICEBERG
XIV	THE SOUTH POLE
XV	ACCIDENT OR INCIDENT?
XVI	WANT OF AIR
XVII	FROM CAPE HORN TO THE AMAZON
XVIII	THE POULPS
XIX	THE GULF STREAM
XX	FROM LATITUDE 47° 24' TO LONGITUDE 17° 28'
XXI	A HECATOMB
XXII	THE LAST WORDS OF CAPTAIN NEMO
XXIII	CONCLUSION

PART ONE

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CHAPTER I

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A SHIFTING REEF

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      The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.

      For some time past vessels had been met by "an enormous thing," a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.

      The facts relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) agreed in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its surprising power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a whale, it surpassed in size all those hitherto classified in science. Taking into consideration the mean of observations made at divers times—rejecting the timid estimate of those who assigned to this object a length of two hundred feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length—we might fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly