Captain Nemo came here whenever he needed to load up with the millions with which he ballasted his Nautilus. It was for him, and him alone, that America had given up its precious metals. He was the direct and only inheritor of the treasures taken from the Incas and others defeated by Hernando Cortez!*
A little anti-imperialism snuck in here past Verne's editor, who wouldn't allow the author to speak about current politics and particularly anything that might offend the governments of France and other great powers.
