He was unaware that the Frenchman and his two companions had been miraculously cast on shore, that the fishermen of the Lofoten Islands had rendered them assistance, and that the professor, on his return to France, had published that work in which seven months of the strange and eventful navigation of the "Nautilus" were narrated and exposed to the curiosity of the public.
Ignoraba que el francés y sus dos compañeros habían sido milagrosamente arrojados a la costa, que los pescadores de las islas Lofoden los habían recogido y que el profesor, a su regreso a Francia, había publicado una obra en la cual se referían y entregaban a la curiosidad pública siete meses de aquella extraña y aventurera navegación del Nautilus.