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Chapter 22. Agri Somnia. The following day, 10 January, the Nautilus continued her course between two seas, but with such remarkable speed that I could not estimate it at less than 35 miles an hour.

The rapidity of her screw was such that I could neither follow nor count its revolutions.

When I reflected that this marvelous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat and light to the Nautilus, still protected her from outward attack and transformed her into an arc of safety, which no profane hand might touch without being thunderstricken.

My admiration was embounded and from the structure it extended to the engineer who'd called it into existence.

Our course was directed to the west and on the 11th of January we doubled Cape Wessel, situation in 135 longitude and 10 South latitude, which forms the east point of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The reefs were still numerous but more equalized and marked on the chart with extreme precision.

The Nautilus easily avoided the breakers of money to port and the Victoria reefs to starboard placed at 130 longitude and on the 10th parallel, which we strictly followed.

On the 13th of January, Captain Nemo arrived in the Sea of Timor and recognized the land of that name in 122 degrees longitude.

From this point the direction of the Nautilus inclined towards the southwest, her head was set for the Indian Ocean, where would the fancy of Captain Nemo carry us next?

Would he return to the coast of Asia, or would he approach again the shores of Europe, improbable conjectures both to a man who fled from inhabited continents?

Then would he descend to the south? Was he going to double the Cape of Good Hope, then Cape Horn, and finally go as far as the Antarctic Pole?

Would he come back at last to the Pacific where his Nautilus could sail free and independently? Time would show.

After having skirted the sands of Cartier, of Hybernia, Sarangapattam, and Scott, last efforts of the solid against the liquid element, on the 14th of January, we lost sight of land altogether.

The speed of the Nautilus was considerably abated, and with a regular course she sometimes swam in the bosom of the waters, sometimes floated on their surface.

During this period of the voyage, Captain Nemo made some interesting experiments on the varied temperature of the sea in different beds.

Under ordinary conditions, these observations are made by means of rather complicated instruments, and with somewhat doubtful results, by means of thermometrical sounding leads, the glasses often breaking under the pressure of the water, an apparatus grounded on the variations of the resistance of metals to the electric currents.

Results, so obtained, could not be correctly calculated. On the contrary, Captain Nemo went himself to test the temperature and the depths of the sea, and his thermometer placed in communication with the different sheets of water, gave him the required degree immediately and accurately.

It was thus that either by overloading her reservoirs or by descending obliquely by means of her inclined planes, the Nautilus successfully attained the depth of 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 10,000 yards, and the definite result of this experience was that the sea preserved an average temperature of 4 degrees and a half at a depth of 5,000 fathoms under all latitudes.

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