15. A letter of invitation

I woke up the next day, November 9, after a long sleep of twelve hours. By
custom, Conseil came to learn "how he had spent the night Mr." and
offer their services. He had left his Canadian friend sleeping like a man
I would not have done anything else in life.
I let him talk his way, hardly respond. I was concerned about the lack of
Captain Nemo on the eve and hoped to see him again that day.
I put on my suit bison, whose nature intrigued Con-Conseil. I explained that our
clothes were made with shiny, silky strands that bind to the rocks
pinnids, very abundant on the Mediterranean bivalve molluscs. Formerly
woven fabrics with this beautiful bison, gloves and socks, a very soft long time and opened-go.
Nautilus's crew could dress like economic-mind and without asking anything or
to cotton or sheep or silkworms.
After having washed and dressed, I went to the great hall, which was empty, where I
I devoted to the study of conchology te-sori contained in the showcases, and
Herbal my exam offered the rarest marine plants that although dissected,
They kept their admires-able colors. Among so precious hydrophytes caught my attention
the whorled cladostefos, the padinaspavonias, the caulerpas of vine leaves, the
callithammion grain sorghum, ceramias delicate scarlet in the form agáreas
Fan, the acetabularias, mushroom-like bonnets very depressed, which
They were for a long tiem-po classified as zoophytes, and a number of wrack.
Thus he spent all day without Captain Nemo honor me with your visit. No
crystals discovered ob-preservation, as if to keep our senses
it will mar the custom of such a beautiful show.
The direction of the Nautilus remained east-west; speed, twelve miles, and its
depth between fifty and sixty meters.
The next, November 10, the day we remained at the same neglect, the same
solitude. I did not see any of the crew. Ned and Conseil spent most of the day
me, baffled by the inexplicable absence of captain. Do you would find sick
singular man? Or maybe he intended to change their plans regarding
we?
After all, as Conseil noted, we enjoyed complete freedom and we had
abundant and delicadamen-fed you. Our guest had complied to in-tonces
the terms of the provisions, and we could that-jarnos. Additionally, the uniqueness of
we reserved our destiny so beautiful compensations we had no right to
blame anything.
It was that day when I started writing the diary of these adventures. This is what
It has allowed me to narrate with scrupulous accuracy. As curious detail, I will say that
I wrote this journal papers with zostera ma-rina.
At dawn on November 11, the expansion of fresh air inside the
Nautilus told me that we had-emerged to the surface of the ocean to renew
pro-vision of oxygen. I went to the central ladder and climbed onto the platform.
It was six in the morning. The sky was overcast and gray sea, but calm, just
rocked by the waves. I was hoping to meet there with Captain Nemo, but
Would you come? I saw only the helmsman, locked in his glass cage.
Sitting on the ledge that formed the hull, aspi-re with delight fumes
salt. Gradually, the mist was dissolving under the action of sunlight. The star
bright rose on the horizon. The sea swelled under his eyes like wild
gunpowder. Scattered across the sky, the clouds were colored bright colors and nuances Hays,
and numerous "ladyfingers" [L11] announced wind all day.
But what could import the wind Nautilus, insensi-ble to the storm?
Watched, admired, that sunrise, as invigorating as-sa joy when I heard
someone up to the silver-form.
I prepared to greet Captain Nemo, but it was his according to-do? To which he had already seen
during the first visit of ca-whistle? who appeared.
He stepped on the platform, not seeming to notice my presence. With its powerful
telescope, the man peered all around the horizon with extreme care.
Finishing consideration, he approached the hatch and pronounced the sentence the terms remember
exactly for having heard it many times under identical conditions:

Nautron respoc Lorni VIRCH
 
I do not know what that might mean.
Uttered those words, the second fell to bor-do. I thought the Nautilus would
resume sub-marine navigation and went down to my cabin.
They spent five days without changing the situation. Every morning I went up to the platform
and heard utter that phrase to the same individual.
Captain Nemo did not appear.
He had already made up my mind not to see him again when, on 16 November, returning to my
stateroom with Ned and Conseil, I found a letter on the table. I opened it impatiently.
EN-described with a clear letter, a little Gothic, the letter said the if-follows:

"Lord Professor Aronnax.

Aboard the Nautilus, to November 16, 1867.

Captain Nemo has the honor to invite Professor Aron-nax a hunting party
will take place tomorrow morning in his Crespo Island forests. He expects nothing
It prevents Mr. teacher participate in the expedition, which also invites
co.

The commander of the Nautilus
 Captain Nemo. "

? A hunt! ? He exclaimed Ned.
? And in the forests of Crespo Island? Conseil added.
? So it is therefore grounded, this man? Said Ned Land.
? This seems to clearly indicate the letter? I said, releyén-dola.
? Well, you have to accept the invitation? Cana-dian said ?. Once on land,
We see what we can ha-cer. Moreover, evil will not come eat some car-ne
fresh.
Without stopping to think about the contradiction between the apparent horror of Captain
Nemo by the continents and islands, and its invitation to a hunt in the woods, I told my
companions:
? Let us above all where and how the island Crespo.
I consulted the planisphere and 320 40 'north latitude and west longitude 50'de 1670 found an
islet was an outdoor-to in 1801 by Captain Crespo and the old maps
Spanish they termed as Roca de la Plata. Halla-Bamos us then to a thousand
eight hundred miles from our starting-to pun. Nautilus direction slightly
modi-fied, led him to the southeast.
I showed it to my colleagues that small rock lost in the Pacific
Northern.
? If Captain Nemo will occasionally grounded? I told them choose to do ?, Islands
absolutely deserted.
Ned Land shook his head in reply, before leaving with Conseil.
That night, after dinner to realize that life was be-me silent and steward
impassive, I slept without Algu-na concern.
When I woke up the next day, November 17th, I felt that the Nautilus was
absolutely motionless. You see me-you quickly and went to the great hall. There was the captain
Nemo, waiting. He stood up, greeted me and asked if I was willing to
accompany.
As did the slightest allusion to his absence during those eight days, I refrained from
all comment to res-respect, limiting myself to say simply that I and my
partners were ready to follow.
? Only? I added? I wish you a question.
Ask it, Mr. Aronnax, if I can answer I will give it gladly.
? Well, Captain, how can you, who has broken all ties with the land,
owned forests on Crespo Island?
? Lord teacher, my possessions forests not ask the sun or the light or warmth. Or
lions or tigers or panthers, or any quadruped frequent them. I just know them and
just for me growing vegetation. They are not terrestrial forests are underwater forests.
? Underwater forests?
Yes, professor.
? And it is they who invited me to follow?
? Precisely.
? Walk?
? Indeed.
? To hunt?
? To hunt.
? Shotgun in hand?
? Shotgun in hand.
Then I could not stop looking at Nau-Tilus commander of an unflattering way
for him.
"Decidedly? I thought ?, is sick in the head. Has debi-do suffer during these eight days
access that still lasts. What a pity! Habérmelas you prefer an extravagant than
a crazy
Should clearly be read in my face such Pansy-cough, but Captain Nemo simply
inviting me to follow him, which I did as a man resigned to everything.
We arrived at the room, where we found and served breakfast.
? Lord Aronnax? Said the captain ?, I ask you com-split me without ceremony
this lunch. Talk while eating. I promised a walk in the bos-that,
but I can not commit myself to find a restau-ing along the way. So eat
you, considering that the next collation come with some delay.
I did honor to the food before me, composed of various fish and slices
cucumbers, excellent zoo-fitos, with a side of very appetizing algae, such as
Porphyria primafetida laciniata and Laurentia. Te-níamos by drinking a very clear water
to which, following the example of the captain, added some drops of a fermented liquor-state,
extracted, to kamchatkiana fashioned, the known with the name of Rodimenia webbed alga.
Captain Nemo ate for a while in silence. Then he said:
? Lord teacher, to go hunting propose to my Crespo forests, you thought you
With Me-find myself at odds with himself. To inform concerned forest
Subma-rino, you believed me crazy. Professor, you never have men to quejuzgar
lightly.
? But, Captain, I beg ...
? Listen, and then see if you can accuse me of insanity or contradiction.
? I'm listening.
? Lord teacher, you know as well as I that the hom-bre can live underwater
condition to bring your breathing air supply. In the underwater work, the
worker, covered with a waterproof suit and the head locked in a capsule
metal, receives air from the outside by means of force pumps and regulators
output.
? Is spacesuits system? I said.
? Indeed, but in these conditions the man is not li-ber: It is attached to the pump that
sends air through a rubber tube, real chain that binds earth. If we
we should be well linked to the Nautilus, we could not go far.
? And what is the means to be free?
? He who gives us the Rouquayrol? Denayrouze device, invented by two compatriots
own, and I perfec-tioned for my personal use. This system will allow
risk in these new physiological conditions without their bodies suffer. Are
tank comprises a plate, in which I store air under pressure
fifty atmospheres. That tank is attached to the back for me-he of braces, as
a soldier's knapsack. Its upper part is a case that air, maintained
by a bellows mechanism, it can not escape rather than its normal voltage. In the apparatus
Rouquayrol as it is used two rubber tubes out of the box to end a
kind of flag that imprisons the nose and mouth of the operator; one serves for the
inspi-rado introduction of air and the other to the output of expired air; is the language which
closes one or the other as required by the breath-ing. But I, I have to face
consider-able pressure at the bottom of the seas, have had to modify that system,
using copper as a sphere-Fandra ESCA. It is in this area where
flow tubes inspiration and expiration
? Well, Captain Nemo, but the air you carry must be used very quickly and
when it contains no more than fifteen percent oxygen becomes unbearable.
? That's right, but I've told him that pumps Nautilus allow me to store it under
considerable pressure, and in these conditions the reservoir unit can provide air
Breathable for nine or ten hours.
? No objection because of me? Answered ?. Single-minded, I wonder, Captain,
how can you light your way to the ocean.
? With the Ruhmkorff device, Professor Aronnax. If the other is carried back, it is fixed to the
waist. It consists of a Bunsen battery that I put into activity with no dichromate
potash, but with sodium. An induction coil collects and directs electricity
into a torch of a particular provision. This torch is a streamer
glass waste containing only carbon dioxide. When the appliance operates, the
gas becomes luminous, giving a continuous whitish light. Thus equipped, I breathe and see.
? Captain Nemo, you give so overwhelming answers to all my objections that I did not
and dare to doubt. Without em-ever, although I have to admit Rouquayrol appliances and
Ruhmkorff, I still have some reservations about the rifle with which he is going to arm myself.
? Of course, there is a gun powder? Respon-yield captain.
? What air?
'? Sure it is. How do you want to manufacture gunpowder on board without having here or saltpeter, sulfur or
or coal?
Why else? I said ?, to shoot underwater in a me-gave it eight hundred and fifty
five times denser than air, would have to overcome considerable resistance.
? That would not be a major obstacle. There are certain guns, perfected after Fulton
by the British Philippe Coles and Burley, Furcy by the French and the Italian Landi, who
They are equipped with a special locking system that can shoot in these conditions.
But, I repeat, as ca-Rezco gunpowder, I've replaced by compressed air
I seek in abundance Nautilus pumps.
? But this air must be spent quickly.
? My tank Rouquayrol can provide me with air if necessary. It suffices to a tap
ad hoc. Besides, Professor Aronnax, you can see for yourself that these hunts
underwater excessive air consumption bullets or not.
? Nevertheless, I think that in this semidarkness, and amid a very dense liquid
regarding Voice ATM-ra, the shots can not go very far and should be hard
threatening.
? On the contrary, with this kind of rifle shots are all mortal, and everything touched by
make it slightly, it drops dead.
? Why?
? Why they are not ordinary bullets shooting the rifle but small glass capsules
(I invented by the Austrian chemist Leniebrock) of which I have a significant
aprovi-sioning. These capsules glass coated steel armor, and
made heavier by a lead cap, are true bottles of Leyden, in the
electricity is forced at very high pressure. They are downloaded to the slightest shock and
how powerful the animal they are received, I drops dead. I would add that these capsules have
a thickness of four and that the burden of an ordinary gun may contain a dozen.
No I discuss? I said, getting up? and I'm dis-set to take my gun. Furthermore,
where you go, I will go.
Captain Nemo led me to the back of the Nautilus and, going to the
Ned and Conseil's cabin, lla-mé them to follow us.
We arrived to a booth, located near the living Maqui-nas, which get debíarnos
Our suits ride.