Endnotes

1. About 106 meters. An English foot is only 30.4 centimeters. ↩

2. German: “Bulletin.” (Ed.) ↩

3. A pier is a type of wharf expressly set aside for an individual vessel. ↩

4. Tenders are small steamboats that assist the big liners. ↩

5. A Bowie knife is a wide-bladed dagger that Americans are forever carrying around. ↩

6. A steward is a waiter on board a steamer. ↩

7. “Nemo” literally means “no one.” (Ed.) ↩

8. Latin: “in a class by itself.” (Ed.) ↩

9. And sure enough, there’s now talk of such a discovery, in which a new set of levers generates considerable power. Did its inventor meet up with Captain Nemo? ↩

10. “Ladyfingers” are small, thin, white clouds with ragged edges. ↩

11. Latin: “Troubled dreams.” (Ed.) ↩

12. Latin: “They have ears but hear not.” (Ed.) ↩

13. Latin: “There in King Neptune’s domain by Karpathos, his spokesman / is azure-hued Proteus …” (Ed.) ↩

14. Italian: “The Fish.” (Ed.) ↩

15. Latin: “our sea.” (Ed.) ↩

16. Latin: “Save Poland’s borders.” (Ed.) ↩

17. Bailly believed that Atlantis was located at the North Pole! (Ed.) ↩

18. Spanish: “ospreys.” (Ed.) ↩