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Updated: May 14, 2025
All hearts stopped beating. Eyes no longer performed their office. One of the port-lights of the projectile was opened. Some pieces of glass remaining in the frame proved that it had been broken. This port-light was situated actually five feet above water. A boat drew alongside that of J.T. Maston. He rushed to the broken window.
He also had some diving-dresses prepared, which, by their impermeable and resisting texture, allowed divers to survey the bottom of the sea. He likewise embarked on board the Susquehanna apparatuses for compressed air, very ingeniously contrived. They were veritable rooms, with port-lights in them, and which, by introducing the water into certain compartments, could be sunk to great depths.
But although we can renew the oxygen we cannot renew the azote, that medium which the lungs do not absorb, and which ought to remain intact. Now the azote would rapidly escape if the port-lights were opened." "Not just the time necessary to throw poor Satellite out." "Agreed; but we must do it quickly." "And what is the second reason?" asked Michel.
The inspection ended, therefore, in general satisfaction. Then they all returned to their posts of observation at the lateral and lower port-lights. The same spectacle was spread before them. All the extent of the celestial sphere swarmed with stars and constellations of marvellous brilliancy, enough to make an astronomer wild!
No detonation was heard outside, where air was wanting, but through the port-lights Barbicane saw the prolonged flame, which was immediately extinguished. The projectile had a slight shock which was very sensibly felt in the interior. The three friends looked, listened, without speaking, hardly breathing. The beating of their hearts might have been heard in the absolute silence.
In the meantime observation through the port-lights had become very difficult. The steam inside the bullet condensed upon the panes and froze immediately. They were obliged to destroy the opacity of the glass by constant rubbing. However, they could record several phenomena of the highest interest.
The boy was lying on his bed as they entered, gazing wistfully out at the little window which opened from the side of it like the port-lights or bull's-eyes of a ship's berth. His young nurse sat beside him with the Bounty Bible open on her knees. She shut it and rose as the strangers entered. The poor invalid was too weak to take much interest in them.
"No, certainly not," answered Nicholl, "but our port-lights are hung upon hinges. They can be let down. We will open one of them, and throw the body into space." The president reflected for a few minutes, and then said "Yes, that is what we must do, but we must take the most minute precautions." "Why?" asked Michel. "For two reasons that I will explain to you," answered Barbicane.
The emotion of the officers and sailors on board was now divided between the prisoners in the projectile and the prisoners of the submarine apparatus. These latter forgot themselves, and, glued to the panes of the port-lights, they attentively observed the liquid masses they were passing through. The descent was rapid. At 2.17 p.m.
The travellers long watched the constellated firmament, upon which the vast screen of the moon made an enormous black hole. But a painful sensation at length drew them from their contemplation. This was an intense cold, which soon covered the glasses of the port-lights with a thick coating of ice.
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