The Pursuit Of Happyness

TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
by JULES VERNE

PART ONE
CHAPTER I
A SHIFTING REEF
The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling pheno custodyon, which doubtless no one has hitherto forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and provoke the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of t expose ensemble countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter.
For some time past vessels had been met by an enormous thing, a long fair game, spindle-shaped, occasion solelyy phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and more rapid in its movements than a whale.
The events relating to this apparition (entered in various log-books) concord in most respects as to the shape of the object or creature in question, the untiring rapidity of its movements, its affect power of locomotion, and the peculiar life with which it seemed endowed. If it was a whale, it surpassed in size of it all those hitherto classified in science.



Taking into contemplation the mean of observations made at divers times-- rejecting the timid compute of those who assigned to this object a length of two carbon feet, equally with the exaggerated opinions which set it down as a mile in width and three in length--we powerfulness fairly conclude that this mysterious being surpassed greatly all dimensions admitted by the learned ones of the day, if it existed at all. And that it DID exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency which disposes the human mind in favour of the marvellous, we advise understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.
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