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Three seconds before receiving the letter from JB Hobson, was so far from the
idea of ​​pursuing the Unicorn-child as to seek the Northwest Passage. Three seconds
after reading the letter from the honorable Secretary of the Navy, he understood
as my true voca-tion, the sole purpose of my life was to hunt this monster
in-disturbing trends, and release it to the world.
However, he had just returned from an arduous journey and I felt tired and eager to
I rest. My only aspiration was to return to my country, my friends and my little
family pension-to the Jardin des Plantes with my dear and precious collec-tions. But nothing
He could keep me. I forgot everything, fatigue, friends, collections and accepted without further reflection the
US government offer.
"Besides? I thought? all roads lead to Europe and the Unicorn will be enough
kind enough to take me to the coast of France. The animal trap worthy be left in
the seas of Europe, for the sake of my personal convenience, and do wish to take at
half a meter of his wing-fence the Museum of Natural History. "
But in the meantime, he should seek the narwhal in the north Pacific, which to return to
France meant taking the path of the antipodes.
? Conseil! ? I shouted impatiently.
Conseil was my home, a devoted boy who accompanied me in all my travels;
a good flamenco for whom I was very fond and whom he corresponded
so-bradamente; one phlegmatic by nature, be punctual principle, true to his
habit and duty sen-sible to little surprises of life. Great dexterity,
It was very suitable for all service. And despite its name1 [L3] he never gave advice,
even when you are not asked to give it.
Continuous touch with the wise men of our little mun-do garden plants had
Conseil brought to acquire certain knowledge. It made him a specialist very
learned in the rankings of Natural History. He could go with an agility
acrobat full range of branches, groups, classes, of the
subcla-ses of orders, families, genera, subgenera, species
and varieties. But his hundred-ence was limited to that. Sort, such was the sense of
life, and know not stop there. Well versed in the theory of classifi-cation, it was very
little in practice, to the point that it was not able to distinguish, so I believe a
a sperm whale. And yet how decent and good boy was!
For ten years, Conseil had followed me wherever I take science.
I had never heard her complaint or comment about the length or fatigue of travel, or
an objection to make his case for a country which-want, whether China or the Congo, by
remote it was. It got off to one place or another without making the slightest question.
He enjoyed a health that defied all-des Sexually transmitted diseases. He had a solid muscles
and had no nerves, nerve appearance, morally speaking, that is.
He was thirty years old, and his age to mine is about fifteen to twenty. I was excused from
and indicate that I was forty years.
Conseil had just a default. Formalist empederni-do, never spoke to me without
use the third person, which irritated me a lot.
? Conseil! ? I repeated, while feverishly beginning my preparations ha-cer starting.
Certainly, I was sure as abne-gado boy. Generally not you
I wondered if you ever conve-nia or follow me on my travels, but this time it was
an expedition which could last indefinitely, a risky enterprise,
pursuit of an animal ca-peace scuttling a ship as if it were a
nutshell. It was to think, even the most impassive man in the world. What
Conseil was going to say?
? Conseil! ? I called a third time.
Conseil appeared.
? He called me sir?
Yes, boy. Prepare, prepare yourself. We leave in two hours.
? As Mr like Con-Conseil replied quietly.
? There is no time to lose. Put in my trunk all my travel utensils, costumes,
shirts, socks, as you can, and hurry!
? And the collections of Mr. ?? Conseil said.
? We will deal with that then.
? What! The arquiotherium, the hyracotherium, the oréodon, the other queropótamo.y
Mr. bones!
? The leave in the hotel.
? And Mr. babirussa alive?
? We remain in our absence. I will arrange to send us to France our
zoo.
? Did not we go back to Paris?
Yes .... naturally ...? I replied evasively ?. But re-gresamos a roundabout.
? The rodeo Mr. want.
? Oh !, little. A path a little less direct, that's all. Will travel aboard
Abraham Lincoln.
? As Mr. suits? Conseil responded with ma-yor placidity.
You know, my friend? You see .... this is the monster, the famous narwhal ... Let's wage
it seas ... The author of a two-volume work on the Mysteries of the great-des
seabed could not escape the expedicióin Commander Farragut. Mission
glorious, but ... dangerous tambiéri. No one knows where this will lead ... Those encourages-les
they can be very capricious ... But go, all mo-dos. With a commander who does not
knows fear.
? I will do what the Lord? Conseil said.
? Think about it, they do not want to hide this trip and one of those whose return is not
you can be sure.
? As Mr like.
Fifteen minutes later, our luggage was pre-stopped. Conseil had done in
no time, and I was sure that nothing would fail, as classified shirts and
costumes as well as birds or mammals.
The hotel elevator deposited us in the great hall mezzanine. I descended the few
steps leading to ground floor and paid my bill at the long counter that was
always besieged by a considerable crowd. Gave the order to send to Paris my
bundles of stuffed animals and dried plants and I left a sufficient account for
maintenance of babirussa. Followed by Conseil, I took a car.
The vehicle, whose fee was twenty francs race down Broadway to
Union Square, then followed by the Fourth Avenue to its junction with Bowery Street, is
He delved by Katrin Street and stopped at the trige-simocuarto dock. There, Katrin
ferry? boat took us, men, horses and car, to Brooklyn, the great New Annex
York, located on the left bank of the East River and within minutes we placed in the
dock at the Abraham Lin-coln vomited torrents of black smoke from its two
chime-lines.
Trasladóse our luggage immediately to the bridge of the frigate. I rushed on board and
I asked for the eat-dante Farragut. A sailor led me to the poop and put me in
presence of an official good-looking, that held out his hand.
? Mr. Pierre Aronnax? ? He asked.
? The same? Answered ?. ¿Commander Farragut?
? In person. Welcome aboard, professor. He has prepared his cabin.
I said goodbye to him, and, leaving occupied in giving orders to prepare, I became lead
the cabin that had been reserved for me.
The Abraham Lincoln had been aptly elegi-do and equipped for your new
committed. It was a very fast frigate, equipped with devices allowing warming
raising seven atmospheres pressure steam. With such pre-sion, the Abraham Lincoln could
I reach a speed-day eighteen miles and three-tenths per hour speed
significant, but insufficient, however, to fight the giant whale.
The interior fittings of the frigate responded to its nautical qualities. Me
I met a lot my cabin, located aft and adjacent to the fourth official.
? Then we'll be fine? I told Conseil.
? As well, if I may the Lord, as a bernardo in the shell of a whelk.
I left Conseil busy conveniently install our bags and went to the bridge to
you follow the preparati-starting.
Commander Farragut was doing ul-tims lay out ropes that held the
Abraham Lincoln to the pier of Brooklyn. Thus, it would have sufficed for fifteen minutes
delay, or even less, so that the frigate had czar-pated without me and to lose this
expedition extraordina-ria, supernatural, implausible, whose true story will find
certainly some disbelief.
Commander Farragut did not want to miss a day or an hour in his march towards the
seas that sign-Larsen had the presence of the animal. He called his engineer.
Do we have enough pressure? ? He asked.
Yes, sir? 'Said the engineer.
? Go ahead! ? Farragut shouted the commander.
Upon receipt of the order, transmitted to the engine room by means of air
compressed, machinists triggered the drive wheel. He whistled the steam to rush through
sliding ajar, and groaned long horizontal ratatouille-nes to impel the
crank shaft. The propeller blades churned the waters with increasing rapidity and
Abraham Lincoln advanced majestically amid a hundred ferry? Boats and
tenders [L4]-res Spectators laden, they are escorting him.
The docks of Brooklyn and all of New York bordering the East River
They were also full of curio-sos. Three cheers erupted successive five hundred thousand
gar-gantas. Thousands of handkerchiefs fluttered in the air above the compact human mass and
They saluted the Abraham Lincoln until his arrival in the waters of the Hudson, on top of that
long peninsula that forms the city of New York.
The frigate, following on the side of New Jersey, the admirable right bank
lined with small hotels, happened between the strong, that greeted its passage with several salvos of their
larger caliber guns. The Abraham Lincoln waved back herding and raising by
three times the North American flag, whose thirty-nine stars shone in their
mizzen peak. Then he changed his departure to take the channel marked out following a
curve for the inner bay-mada by the tip of Sandy Hook, and coasted this language
are-mannose from which several thousand spectators acla-Maron once again.
The procession of boats and tenders followed the frigate to the al-ture of light? Boat, whose two
lighthouses mark the entrance of the steps of New York. At that point, the clock showed
three in the afternoon. The harbor pilot went down to his ca-noa and returned to the small
schooner was coming. Is forced-ron machine and propeller churned the waters harder.
The ship coasted the low and yellowed edges Long Is-land. At eight o'clock,
after leaving the Northwest Fire Island lighthouse, the ship plowed full steam and the
os-cures Atlantic waters.