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Now
,
it
was
the
"
monster
"
who
,
justly
or
unjustly
,
was
accused
of
their
disappearance
,
and
,
thanks
to
it
,
communication
between
the
different
continents
became
more
and
more
dangerous
.
The
public
demanded
sharply
that
the
seas
should
at
any
price
be
relieved
from
this
formidable
cetacean
.
At
the
period
when
these
events
took
place
,
I
had
just
returned
from
a
scientific
research
in
the
disagreeable
territory
of
Nebraska
,
in
the
United
States
.
In
virtue
of
my
office
as
Assistant
Professor
in
the
Museum
of
Natural
History
in
Paris
,
the
French
Government
had
attached
me
to
that
expedition
.
After
six
months
in
Nebraska
,
I
arrived
in
New
York
towards
the
end
of
March
,
laden
with
a
precious
collection
.
My
departure
for
France
was
fixed
for
the
first
days
in
May
.
Meanwhile
I
was
occupying
myself
in
classifying
my
mineralogical
,
botanical
,
and
zoological
riches
,
when
the
accident
happened
to
the
Scotia
.
I
was
perfectly
up
in
the
subject
which
was
the
question
of
the
day
.
How
could
I
be
otherwise
?
I
had
read
and
reread
all
the
American
and
European
papers
without
being
any
nearer
a
conclusion
.
This
mystery
puzzled
me
.
Under
the
impossibility
of
forming
an
opinion
,
I
jumped
from
one
extreme
to
the
other
.
That
there
really
was
something
could
not
be
doubted
,
and
the
incredulous
were
invited
to
put
their
finger
on
the
wound
of
the
Scotia
.
On
my
arrival
at
New
York
the
question
was
at
its
height
.
The
theory
of
the
floating
island
,
and
the
unapproachable
sandbank
,
supported
by
minds
little
competent
to
form
a
judgment
,
was
abandoned
.
And
,
indeed
,
unless
this
shoal
had
a
machine
in
its
stomach
,
how
could
it
change
its
position
with
such
astonishing
rapidity
?
From
the
same
cause
,
the
idea
of
a
floating
hull
of
an
enormous
wreck
was
given
up
.
There
remained
,
then
,
only
two
possible
solutions
of
the
question
,
which
created
two
distinct
parties
:
on
one
side
,
those
who
were
for
a
monster
of
colossal
strength
;
on
the
other
,
those
who
were
for
a
submarine
vessel
of
enormous
motive
power
.
But
this
last
theory
,
plausible
as
it
was
,
could
not
stand
against
inquiries
made
in
both
worlds
.
That
a
private
gentleman
should
have
such
a
machine
at
his
command
was
not
likely
.
Where
,
when
,
and
how
was
it
built
?
and
how
could
its
construction
have
been
kept
secret
?
Certainly
a
Government
might
possess
such
a
destructive
machine
.
And
in
these
disastrous
times
,
when
the
ingenuity
of
man
has
multiplied
the
power
of
weapons
of
war
,
it
was
possible
that
,
without
the
knowledge
of
others
,
a
State
might
try
to
work
such
a
formidable
engine
.
But
the
idea
of
a
war
machine
fell
before
the
declaration
of
Governments
.
As
public
interest
was
in
question
,
and
transatlantic
communications
suffered
,
their
veracity
could
not
be
doubted
.
But
how
admit
that
the
construction
of
this
submarine
boat
had
escaped
the
public
eye
?
For
a
private
gentleman
to
keep
the
secret
under
such
circumstances
would
be
very
difficult
,
and
for
a
State
whose
every
act
is
persistently
watched
by
powerful
rivals
,
certainly
impossible
.
Upon
my
arrival
in
New
York
several
persons
did
me
the
honour
of
consulting
me
on
the
phenomenon
in
question
.
I
had
published
in
France
a
work
in
quarto
,
in
two
volumes
,
entitled
Mysteries
of
the
Great
Submarine
Grounds
.
This
book
,
highly
approved
of
in
the
learned
world
,
gained
for
me
a
special
reputation
in
this
rather
obscure
branch
of
Natural
History
.
My
advice
was
asked
.
As
long
as
I
could
deny
the
reality
of
the
fact
,
I
confined
myself
to
a
decided
negative
.
But
soon
,
finding
myself
driven
into
a
corner
,
I
was
obliged
to
explain
myself
point
by
point
.
I
discussed
the
question
in
all
its
forms
,
politically
and
scientifically
;
and
I
give
here
an
extract
from
a
carefully-studied
article
which
I
published
in
the
number
of
the
30th
of
April
.
It
ran
as
follows
:
