![]() ![]() He finds the true source of the occurrences, as he, his servant Conseil, and a master harpooner, Ned, find themselves in the ocean, clinging for their life to a strange ship. Professor Aronnax sets out with others, to discover the cause of several mysterious ship sinkings, that are at first attributed to a rogue whale. (1870) Sci-fi (Invention) / Adventure (Undersea) A frigate of great speed, the Abraham Lincoln, was put in comm The United States were the first in the field and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwhal. ![]() ![]() 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. The industrial and commercial papers treated the question chiefly from this point of view. 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 human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. The solution it proposed gave, at least, full liberty to the imagination. ![]() It rallied round it a certain number of partisans. Was warmly discussed, which procured it a high reputation. ![]()
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