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For
nearly
an
hour
the
Nautilus
floated
in
the
midst
of
this
shoal
of
molluscs
.
Then
I
know
not
what
sudden
fright
they
took
.
But
as
if
at
a
signal
every
sail
was
furled
,
the
arms
folded
,
the
body
drawn
in
,
the
shells
turned
over
,
changing
their
centre
of
gravity
,
and
the
whole
fleet
disappeared
under
the
waves
.
Never
did
the
ships
of
a
squadron
manoeuvre
with
more
unity
.
At
that
moment
night
fell
suddenly
,
and
the
reeds
,
scarcely
raised
by
the
breeze
,
lay
peaceably
under
the
sides
of
the
Nautilus
.
The
next
day
,
26th
of
January
,
we
cut
the
equator
at
the
eighty-second
meridian
and
entered
the
northern
hemisphere
.
During
the
day
a
formidable
troop
of
sharks
accompanied
us
,
terrible
creatures
,
which
multiply
in
these
seas
and
make
them
very
dangerous
.
They
were
"
cestracio
philippi
"
sharks
,
with
brown
backs
and
whitish
bellies
,
armed
with
eleven
rows
of
teeth
--
eyed
sharks
--
their
throat
being
marked
with
a
large
black
spot
surrounded
with
white
like
an
eye
.
There
were
also
some
Isabella
sharks
,
with
rounded
snouts
marked
with
dark
spots
.
These
powerful
creatures
often
hurled
themselves
at
the
windows
of
the
saloon
with
such
violence
as
to
make
us
feel
very
insecure
.
At
such
times
Ned
Land
was
no
longer
master
of
himself
.
He
wanted
to
go
to
the
surface
and
harpoon
the
monsters
,
particularly
certain
smooth-hound
sharks
,
whose
mouth
is
studded
with
teeth
like
a
mosaic
;
and
large
tiger-sharks
nearly
six
yards
long
,
the
last
named
of
which
seemed
to
excite
him
more
particularly
.
But
the
Nautilus
,
accelerating
her
speed
,
easily
left
the
most
rapid
of
them
behind
.
The
27th
of
January
,
at
the
entrance
of
the
vast
Bay
of
Bengal
,
we
met
repeatedly
a
forbidding
spectacle
,
dead
bodies
floating
on
the
surface
of
the
water
.
They
were
the
dead
of
the
Indian
villages
,
carried
by
the
Ganges
to
the
level
of
the
sea
,
and
which
the
vultures
,
the
only
undertakers
of
the
country
,
had
not
been
able
to
devour
.
But
the
sharks
did
not
fail
to
help
them
at
their
funeral
work
.
About
seven
o’clock
in
the
evening
,
the
Nautilus
,
half-immersed
,
was
sailing
in
a
sea
of
milk
.
At
first
sight
the
ocean
seemed
lactified
.
Was
it
the
effect
of
the
lunar
rays
?
No
;
for
the
moon
,
scarcely
two
days
old
,
was
still
lying
hidden
under
the
horizon
in
the
rays
of
the
sun
.
The
whole
sky
,
though
lit
by
the
sidereal
rays
,
seemed
black
by
contrast
with
the
whiteness
of
the
waters
.
Conseil
could
not
believe
his
eyes
,
and
questioned
me
as
to
the
cause
of
this
strange
phenomenon
.
Happily
I
was
able
to
answer
him
.
"
It
is
called
a
milk
sea
,
"
I
explained
.
"
A
large
extent
of
white
wavelets
often
to
be
seen
on
the
coasts
of
Amboyna
,
and
in
these
parts
of
the
sea
.
"
"
But
,
sir
,
"
said
Conseil
,
"
can
you
tell
me
what
causes
such
an
effect
?
for
I
suppose
the
water
is
not
really
turned
into
milk
.
"
"
No
,
my
boy
;
and
the
whiteness
which
surprises
you
is
caused
only
by
the
presence
of
myriads
of
infusoria
,
a
sort
of
luminous
little
worm
,
gelatinous
and
without
colour
,
of
the
thickness
of
a
hair
,
and
whose
length
is
not
more
than
seven-thousandths
of
an
inch
.
These
insects
adhere
to
one
another
sometimes
for
several
leagues
.
"
