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Updated: June 18, 2025

Many of our sailors swore that the monster couldn't negotiate this passageway simply because "he's too big for it!" Near three o'clock in the afternoon on July 6, fifteen miles south of shore, the Abraham Lincoln doubled that solitary islet at the tip of the South American continent, that stray rock Dutch seamen had named Cape Horn after their hometown of Hoorn.

Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea