Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne

"chaluts,"

animalculae."

flabellariae

polypi,

Bougainville,

Caledonia,

madreporal

M. Aronnax?"

chaetpdons,

opercules

bronchial

scorp...

didactyles

'seafrog,'

mollusca.

delphinulae

as...

punct...

po...

shoal

argonauts

promontory,

scoriae,

lichens

diatomas,

limpets.

clios,

sea-butterflies,

damiers,

petrels,

morses."

Proteus,

lamantin,

manometer.

fathoms.

voltaic

capriciously

lenticular

"Yes, confound it! Yes," answered Ned Land, "it is superb! I am mad at being obliged to admit it. No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see."

Ned

Rouquayrol

enfeebled.

deleterious

vivifying

potash,

congelation

galleys,

poulps,

medusae,

poulps,

"What!" said Conseil; "cuttlefish, real cuttlefish of the cephalopod class?" "No," I said, "poulps of huge dimensions." "I will never believe that such animals exist," said Ned. "Well," said Conseil, with the most serious air in the world, "I remember perfectly to have seen a large vessel drawn under the waves by an octopus's arm." "You saw that?" said the Canadian. "Yes, Ned." "With your own eyes?" "With my own eyes." "Where, pray, might that be?" "At St. Malo," answered Conseil. "In the port?" said Ned, ironically. "No; in a church," replied Conseil. "In a church!" cried the Canadian. "Yes; friend Ned. In a picture representing the poulp in question."