Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Part 2, Chapter 16
Phoebe Reads a Mystery
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:35.9 | Thus around the Nautilus, above and below, was an impenetrable wall of ice. We were prisoners |
| 0:41.5 | to the iceberg. I watched the captain. |
| 0:45.0 | Gentlemen, he said calmly. There are two ways of dying in the circumstances in which |
| 0:50.5 | you are placed. This puzzling person had the air of a mathematical professor lecturing |
| 0:56.3 | to his pupils. The first is to be crushed. The second is to die of suffocation. I do not |
| 1:04.0 | speak of the possibility of dying of hunger for the supply of provisions in the Nautilus |
| 1:08.9 | most certainly last longer than we shall. Let us uncalculate our chances. |
| 1:15.5 | As to suffocation, captain I replied, that is not to be feared because our reservoirs |
| 1:20.7 | are full. Just so, but they will only yield two days supply of air. Now, for 36 hours, |
| 1:28.6 | we have been hidden under the water, and already the heavy atmosphere of the Nautilus requires |
| 1:33.7 | renewal. In 48 hours, our reserve will be exhausted. |
| 1:39.1 | Well, captain, can we be delivered before 48 hours? We will attempt it, at least, by piercing |
| 1:47.4 | the wall that surrounds us. On which side? Sound will tell us. I am going to run the |
| 1:54.7 | Nautilus aground on the lower bank, and my men will attack the iceberg on the side that |
| 2:00.2 | is least thick. Captain Nemo went out. Soon I discovered by hissing noise that the water |
| 2:08.0 | was entering the reservoirs. The Nautilus sank slowly, and rested on the ice at a depth |
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