Captain Nemo shows the professor the rest of his ship and then disappears for a few days before inviting them to go hunting. With Nemo's advanced technology they use diving suits to travel down into the depths of the ocean. Each man has a gun that shoots out glass bullets, which I thought was interesting. I mean glass, its a lot more breakable than lead. They travel through the forest of coral and on there way back to the ship Nemo shoots a sea otter. Again the captain disappears for a while and the three men are left to themselves.
One day they get caught on a reef and have to wait till the tide rises in five days. The professor asks Captain Nemo if Conseil, Ned, and him can go hunting on land. From the beginning Nemo vowed that he'd never return to land again, so the professor is surprised when the captain says yes.
The three men take a small boat up to the island full of cannibals (which they already know) in hopes of food that's not from the sea, and Ned strongly hopes they can escape. They find lots of fruit and kill a wild boar. They roast it and begin to eat it when arrows and stones come flying at them. They run to the boat as cannibals come after them.
Later after the tide rises and they leave the island the captain tells the professor that he has to lock them up again. So he locks them up and drugs their food, so they fall asleep. When the professor awakes he's in his cabin again and the door is unlocked for him. The captain comes up to him and asks him if he's a doctor. He says yes, and is brought to do treatment on a wounded crew mate. Sadly, the crew mate is beyond help and later dies.
The captain, his crew, and the three men bury the dead man and have a funeral for him at the bottom of the sea. The professor knows that what happened to that guy was related to the events of the other day, and that to keep secrets from him the captain had to drug them.
I think that this book is an easy read but overall its pretty interesting. The one thing I don't like about it is that it has pictures for every other page. It just kind of annoying and makes it a little embarrassing to read. Someone told me that because its and old book it has lots of pictures in it.
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