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CHAPTER VI.

THE GRECIAN ARCHIPELAGO.

dawn next day (February 12) the Nautilus came up to the surface again. I ran up to the platform. Three miles to the southward I could see the outline of Pelusium. A torrent had carried us from sea to sea. But the tunnel, though easy to descend, seemed to me impossible to ascend.

About 7 Ned and Conseil joined me. These two “inséparables” had been calmly sleeping, without troubling themselves about the exploits of the Nautilus.

“Well, sir,” asked the Canadian, in a bantering tone, “and how about this Mediterranean?”

“We are floating on its surface, friend Ned!”

“What,” said Conseil, “last night”

“Yes, last night, in a few minutes, we cleared the Isthmus of Suez.”

“I don’t believe a word of it,” said Ned.

“Well, you are wrong, Master Land. That low coast trending to the south is Egypt.”

“Or some other,” replied the infatuated Canadian.