One of the other men on board is an expert harpooner named Ned Land, a 40-year-old from Quebec. Farragut offers $2,000 to whomever is the first person aboard to catch sight of it. The ship is commandeered by Captain Farragut, who considers it his personal mission to find and destroy the monster.
He is accompanied by his faithful servant, a Flemish man named Conseil. naval ship, the Abraham Lincoln, in search of the monster, and enthusiastically accepts. He is invited to join an expedition on a U.S. He argues that it is likely some kind of gigantic narwhal. He is the author of a book entitled Mysteries of the Unsounded Depths Undersea, and is thus consulted as an expert on what the mysterious monster could possibly be. The narrator, a professor of natural history from Paris named Pierre Arronax, has just returned to New York after six months of fieldwork in Nebraska. After the monster bores a large whole inside the bottom of a Quebecois passenger ship, all unsolved shipwrecks are blamed on the mysterious creature.
The monster is depicted in newspaper articles, songs, and plays. In 1866, the world is captivated by rumors of a “phosphorescent” sea monster that is spotted by several ships around the globe.
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