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Chapter 4. The Red Sea

           ThereweretoomanyEnglishorFrenchsteamersofthelineofSueztoBombay,CalcuttatoMelbourne,andfromBourbontotheMauritius,furrowingthisnarrowpassage,fortheNautilustoventuretoshowitself.Soitremainedprudentlybelow.Atlastaboutnoon,wewereinthewatersoftheRedSea.

           IwouldnotevenseektounderstandthecapricewhichhaddecidedCaptainNemouponenteringthegulf.ButIquiteapprovedoftheNautilusenteringit.Itsspeedwaslessened:sometimesitkeptonthesurface,sometimesitdivedtoavoidavessel,andthusIwasabletoobservetheupperandlowerpartsofthiscurioussea.

           The8thofFebruary,fromthefirstdawnofday,Mochacameinsight,nowaruinedtown,whosewallswouldfallatagunshot,yetwhichsheltershereandtheresomeverdantdate-trees;onceanimportantcity,containingsixpublicmarkets,andtwenty-sixmosques,andwhosewalls,defendedbyfourteenforts,formedagirdleoftwomilesincircumference.

           TheNautilusthenapproachedtheAfricanshore,wherethedepthoftheseawasgreater.There,betweentwowatersclearascrystal,throughtheopenpanelswewereallowedtocontemplatethebeautifulbushesofbrilliantcoralandlargeblocksofrockclothedwithasplendidfurofgreenvarietyofsitesandlandscapesalongthesesandbanksandalgaeandfuci.Whatanindescribablespectacle,andwhatvarietyofsitesandlandscapesalongthesesandbanksandvolcanicislandswhichboundtheLibyancoast!Butwheretheseshrubsappearedinalltheirbeautywasontheeasterncoast,whichtheNautilussoongained.

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