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Chapter 17 From Cape Horn to the Amazon. How I got onto the platform, I have no idea.

Perhaps the Canadian had carried me there. But I breathed. I inhaled the vivifying

CAIR. My two companions were getting drunk with the fresh particles. We had no end to

restrain ourselves. We could draw this air freely into our lungs, and it was the breeze,

the breeze alone, that filled us with this keen enjoyment.

Ah, said Konsei, how delightful this oxygen is. Master need not fear to breathe it. There

is enough for everybody. Ned Land did not speak. But he opened his jaws wide enough to frighten

us shark. Our strength soon returned. And when I looked around me, I saw we were alone

on the platform. The foreign seamen and the nautilus were contented with the air that circulated

in the interior. None of them had come to drink in the open air.

The first words I spoke were words of gratitude and thankfulness to my two companions. Ned and

Konsei had prolonged my life during the last hours of this long agony. All my gratitude

could not repay such devotion. My friends said, I, we are bound one to the other forever,

and I am under infinite obligations to you. Which I shall take advantage of, exclaim the

Canadian. What do you mean, said Konsei? I mean that I shall take you with me when I leave

this infernal nautilus. Well, said Konsei, after all this, are we going, right? Yes, I

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