I rejoined Ned Land and Conseil, and told them of Captain Nemo's proposition.

Conseil hastened to accept it, and this time the Canadian seemed quite willing to follow our example.
It was eight o'clock in the morning.

At half-past eight we were equipped for this new excursion, and provided with two contrivances for light and breathing.

The double door was open; and, accompanied by Captain Nemo, who was followed by a dozen of the crew, we set foot, at a depth of about thirty feet, on the solid bottom on which the Nautilus rested.
A slight declivity ended in an uneven bottom, at fifteen fathoms depth.
This bottom differed entirely from the one I had visited on my first excursion under the waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Here, there was no fine sand, no submarine prairies, no sea-forest.