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Chapter 19. Taurus Straits

During the night of the 27th or 28th of December, the Nautilus left the shores of Vanacoro

with great speed. Her course was south-westernally, and in three days she had gone over the 750 leagues

that separated it from La Peruzza's group and the southeast point of Papua. Early, on the 1st of January

1863, Consay joined me on the platform. Master, will you permit me to wish you a happy new year?

What, Consay? Exactly as if I was at Paris in my study. Well, I accept your good wishes and thank

you for them. Only I will ask you what you mean by a happy new year under our circumstances. Do

mean the year that will bring us to the end of our imprisonment, or the year that sees us continue

this strange voyage? Really, I do not know how to answer Master. We are sure to seek curious things,

and for the last two months we have not had time for dullness.

The last marvel is always the most astonishing, and if we continue this progression, I do not know

how it will end. It is my opinion that we shall never again see the like. I think then, with no

offense to Master, that a happy year would be one in which we could see everything.

On 2nd January, we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting point in

the Japan seas. Before the ship's head stretched the dangerous shores of the Coral Sea on the

northeast coast of Australia. Our boat lay along some miles from the redoubtable bank on which

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