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"
No
,
sir
;
and
for
a
good
reason
.
"
"
What
is
it
?
"
"
It
is
that
the
spot
where
Moses
and
his
people
passed
is
now
so
blocked
up
with
sand
that
the
camels
can
barely
bathe
their
legs
there
.
You
can
well
understand
that
there
would
not
be
water
enough
for
my
Nautilus
.
"
"
And
the
spot
?
"
I
asked
.
"
The
spot
is
situated
a
little
above
the
Isthmus
of
Suez
,
in
the
arm
which
formerly
made
a
deep
estuary
,
when
the
Red
Sea
extended
to
the
Salt
Lakes
.
Now
,
whether
this
passage
were
miraculous
or
not
,
the
Israelites
,
nevertheless
,
crossed
there
to
reach
the
Promised
Land
,
and
Pharaoh
's
army
perished
precisely
on
that
spot
;
and
I
think
that
excavations
made
in
the
middle
of
the
sand
would
bring
to
light
a
large
number
of
arms
and
instruments
of
Egyptian
origin
.
"
"
That
is
evident
,
"
I
replied
;
"
and
for
the
sake
of
archaeologists
let
us
hope
that
these
excavations
will
be
made
sooner
or
later
,
when
new
towns
are
established
on
the
isthmus
,
after
the
construction
of
the
Suez
Canal
;
a
canal
,
however
,
very
useless
to
a
vessel
like
the
Nautilus
.
"
"
Very
likely
;
but
useful
to
the
whole
world
,
"
said
Captain
Nemo
.
"
The
ancients
well
understood
the
utility
of
a
communication
between
the
Red
Sea
and
the
Mediterranean
for
their
commercial
affairs
:
but
they
did
not
think
of
digging
a
canal
direct
,
and
took
the
Nile
as
an
intermediate
.
Very
probably
the
canal
which
united
the
Nile
to
the
Red
Sea
was
begun
by
Sesostris
,
if
we
may
believe
tradition
.
One
thing
is
certain
,
that
in
the
year
615
before
Jesus
Christ
,
Necos
undertook
the
works
of
an
alimentary
canal
to
the
waters
of
the
Nile
across
the
plain
of
Egypt
,
looking
towards
Arabia
.
It
took
four
days
to
go
up
this
canal
,
and
it
was
so
wide
that
two
triremes
could
go
abreast
.
It
was
carried
on
by
Darius
,
the
son
of
Hystaspes
,
and
probably
finished
by
Ptolemy
II
.
Strabo
saw
it
navigated
:
but
its
decline
from
the
point
of
departure
,
near
Bubastes
,
to
the
Red
Sea
was
so
slight
that
it
was
only
navigable
for
a
few
months
in
the
year
.
This
canal
answered
all
commercial
purposes
to
the
age
of
Antonius
,
when
it
was
abandoned
and
blocked
up
with
sand
.
Restored
by
order
of
the
Caliph
Omar
,
it
was
definitely
destroyed
in
761
or
762
by
Caliph
Al-Mansor
,
who
wished
to
prevent
the
arrival
of
provisions
to
Mohammed-ben-Abdallah
,
who
had
revolted
against
him
.
During
the
expedition
into
Egypt
,
your
General
Bonaparte
discovered
traces
of
the
works
in
the
Desert
of
Suez
;
and
,
surprised
by
the
tide
,
he
nearly
perished
before
regaining
Hadjaroth
,
at
the
very
place
where
Moses
had
encamped
three
thousand
years
before
him
.
"
"
Well
,
Captain
,
what
the
ancients
dared
not
undertake
,
this
junction
between
the
two
seas
,
which
will
shorten
the
road
from
Cadiz
to
India
,
M.
Lesseps
has
succeeded
in
doing
;
and
before
long
he
will
have
changed
Africa
into
an
immense
island
.
"
"
Yes
,
M.
Aronnax
;
you
have
the
right
to
be
proud
of
your
countryman
.
Such
a
man
brings
more
honour
to
a
nation
than
great
captains
.
He
began
,
like
so
many
others
,
with
disgust
and
rebuffs
;
but
he
has
triumphed
,
for
he
has
the
genius
of
will
.
And
it
is
sad
to
think
that
a
work
like
that
,
which
ought
to
have
been
an
international
work
and
which
would
have
sufficed
to
make
a
reign
illustrious
,
should
have
succeeded
by
the
energy
of
one
man
.
All
honour
to
M.
Lesseps
!
"
