The thermometer indicated a temperature of 4.25 (cent.): a temperature that at this depth seemed common to all latitudes.
At three o'clock in the morning of the 26th of November the Nautilus crossed the tropic of Cancer at 172 deg.long.

On 27th instant it sighted the Sandwich Islands, where Cook died, February 14, 1779.

We had then gone 4,860 leagues from our starting-point.

In the morning, when I went on the platform, I saw two miles to windward, Hawaii, the largest of the seven islands that form the group.

I saw clearly the cultivated ranges, and the several mountain-chains that run parallel with the side, and the volcanoes that overtop Mouna-Rea, which rise 5,000 yards above the level of the sea.