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+\chapter{Pro and Con}
+
+At the period when these events took place, I had just returned
+from a scientific research in the disagreeable territory
+of Nebraska, in the United States. In virtue of my office
+as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris,
+the French Government had attached me to that expedition.
+After six months in Nebraska, I arrived in New York towards
+the end of March, laden with a precious collection.
+My departure for France was fixed for the first days in May.
+Meanwhile I was occupying myself in classifying my mineralogical,
+botanical, and zoological riches, when the accident happened
+to the Scotia.
+
+I was perfectly up in the subject which was the question of the day.
+How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American
+and European papers without being any nearer a conclusion.
+This mystery puzzled me. Under the impossibility of forming
+an opinion, I jumped from one extreme to the other.
+That there really was something could not be doubted,
+and the incredulous were invited to put their finger on the wound
+of the Scotia.\cite{incollection-full}
+
+\section{An added section}
+
+On my arrival at New York the question was at its height.
+The theory of the floating island, and the unapproachable sandbank,
+supported by minds little competent to form a judgment, was abandoned.
+And, indeed, unless this shoal had a machine in its stomach,
+how could it change its position with such astonishing rapidity?
+
+From the same cause, the idea of a floating hull of an enormous
+wreck was given up.
+
+\vskip 0.25in
+\begin{table}%
+ \caption[Add a table]{Add an extra table here. Chinese Menu.}
+ \begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{lp{4.4cm}p{4.4cm}}
+ & \textbf{column A} & \textbf{column B} \\
+ \textbf{hot} & Kung Pao Chicken & General Tso's Chicken \\
+ \textbf{mild} & Moo Goo Gai Pan & Sweet and Sour Pork
+ \end{tabular}
+ \label{tab:test1}
+ \end{center}
+\end{table}
+
+There remained, then, only two possible solutions of the question,
+which created two distinct parties: on one side, those who were
+for a monster of colossal strength; on the other, those who were
+for a submarine vessel of enormous motive power.
+
+\subsection{A subsection}
+
+But this last theory, plausible as it was, could not stand against
+inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have
+such a machine at his command was not likely. Where, when, and how
+was it built? and how could its construction have been kept secret?
+Certainly a Government might possess such a destructive machine.
+And in these disastrous times, when the ingenuity of man has
+multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that,
+without the knowledge of others, a State might try to work such
+a formidable engine.
+
+But the idea of a war machine fell before the declaration of Governments.
+As public interest was in question, and transatlantic communications
+suffered, their veracity could not be doubted. But how admit that
+the construction of this submarine boat had escaped the public eye?
+For a private gentleman to keep the secret under such circumstances would
+be very difficult, and for a State whose every act is persistently watched
+by powerful rivals, certainly impossible.
+
+\begin{figure}%
+ \centering%
+ \includegraphics[width=100bp]{jules-verne-test}%
+ \caption[Another test figure]%
+ {This is another test figure inserted into this text
+\protect\cite{misc-full}}%
+ \label{fig:test2}%
+\end{figure}
+
+Upon my arrival in New York several persons did me
+the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon in question.
+I had published in France a work in quarto, in two volumes,
+entitled Mysteries of the Great Submarine Grounds. This book,
+highly approved of in the learned world, gained for me a special
+reputation in this rather obscure branch of Natural History.
+My advice was asked. As long as I could deny the reality
+of the fact, I confined myself to a decided negative.
+But soon, finding myself driven into a corner, I was
+obliged to explain myself point by point. I discussed
+the question in all its forms, politically and scientifically;
+and I give here an extract from a carefully-studied article
+which I published in the number of the 30th of April.
+It ran as follows:
+
+\section{Another added section}
+
+``After examining one by one the different theories, rejecting all
+other suggestions, it becomes necessary to admit the existence
+of a marine animal of enormous power.
+
+\begin{equation}
+E=mc^2
+\end{equation}
+
+``The great depths of the ocean are entirely unknown to us.
+Soundings cannot reach them. What passes in those remote depths---what
+beings live, or can live, twelve or fifteen miles beneath
+the surface of the waters---what is the organisation of these animals,
+we can scarcely conjecture. However, the solution of the problem
+submitted to me may modify the form of the dilemma. Either we do know
+all the varieties of beings which people our planet, or we do not.
+If we do NOT know them all---if Nature has still secrets in the deeps
+for us, nothing is more conformable to reason than to admit the existence
+of fishes, or cetaceans of other kinds, or even of new species,
+of an organisation formed to inhabit the strata inaccessible to soundings,
+and which an accident of some sort has brought at long intervals
+to the upper level of the ocean.
+
+``If, on the contrary, we DO know all living kinds, we must
+necessarily seek for the animal in question amongst those marine
+beings already classed; and, in that case, I should be disposed
+to admit the existence of a gigantic narwhal.
+
+``The common narwhal, or unicorn of the sea, often attains
+a length of sixty feet. Increase its size fivefold or tenfold,
+give it strength proportionate to its size, lengthen its
+destructive weapons, and you obtain the animal required.
+It will have the proportions determined by the officers
+of the Shannon, the instrument required by the perforation
+of the Scotia, and the power necessary to pierce the hull
+of the steamer.\cite{inproceedings-full}
+
+``Indeed, the narwhal is armed with a sort of ivory sword,
+a halberd, according to the expression of certain naturalists.
+The principal tusk has the hardness of steel. Some of these tusks
+have been found buried in the bodies of whales, which the unicorn
+always attacks with success. Others have been drawn out,
+not without trouble, from the bottoms of ships, which they
+had pierced through and through, as a gimlet pierces a barrel.
+The Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris possesses one
+of these defensive weapons, two yards and a quarter in length,
+and fifteen inches in diameter at the base.
+
+``Very well! suppose this weapon to be six times stronger and the animal
+ten times more powerful; launch it at the rate of twenty miles an hour,
+and you obtain a shock capable of producing the catastrophe required.
+Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be
+a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd,
+but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams' of war,
+whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.
+Thus may this puzzling phenomenon be explained, unless there be something over
+and above all that one has ever conjectured, seen, perceived, or experienced;
+which is just within the bounds of possibility.''
+
+\section{The last added section}
+
+These last words were cowardly on my part; but, up to a certain point,
+I wished to shelter my dignity as professor, and not give
+too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well
+when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way of escape.
+In effect, however, I admitted the existence of the ``monster.''
+My article was warmly discussed, which procured it a high reputation.
+It rallied round it a certain number of partisans. The solution
+it proposed gave, at least, full liberty to the imagination.
+The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
+And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium
+through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals,
+such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced
+or developed.
+
+The industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from this
+point of view. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, the Lloyd's List,
+the Packet-Boat, and the Maritime and Colonial Review, all papers devoted
+to insurance companies which threatened to raise their rates of premium,
+were unanimous on this point. Public opinion had been pronounced.
+The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they
+made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal.
+A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in commission
+as soon as possible. The arsenals were opened to Commander Farragut,
+who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as it always happens,
+the moment it was decided to pursue the monster, the monster did not appear.
+For two months no one heard it spoken of. No ship met with it.
+It seemed as if this unicorn knew of the plots weaving around it.
+It had been so much talked of, even through the Atlantic cable, that jesters
+pretended that this slender fly had stopped a telegram on its passage and was
+making the most of it.
+
+So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with
+formidable fishing apparatus, no one could tell what course to pursue.
+Impatience grew apace, when, on the 2nd of July, they learned that a
+steamer of the line of San Francisco, from California to Shanghai,
+had seen the animal three weeks before in the North Pacific Ocean.
+The excitement caused by this news was extreme. The ship was revictualled
+and well stocked with coal.
+
+Three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left Brooklyn pier,
+I received a letter worded as follows:
+
+\begin{longquote}
+To M. ARONNAX, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
+
+SIR,--If you will consent to join the Abraham Lincoln
+in this expedition, the Government of the United States
+will with pleasure see France represented in the enterprise.
+Commander Farragut has a cabin at your disposal.
+
+Very cordially yours, J.B. HOBSON, Secretary of Marine.
+\end{longquote}