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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} |