sublime.

maelstrom?

maelstrom—how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell.

omitted,

every incident, either happy or unfortunate, which had happened since my disappearance from the Abraham Lincoln—the submarine hunt, the Torres Straits, the savages of Papua, the running ashore, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, the Island of Santorin, the Cretan diver, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, the iceberg, the South Pole, the imprisonment in the

indelible

incessantly

Ned Land was resolute, Conseil calm, myself so nervous that I knew not how to contain myself.

My companions and I resolved to fly when the vessel should be near enough either to hear us or to see us;