"I don't have to tell you, sir," Ned Land replied, "that the Red Sea is just as landlocked as the gulf, since the Isthmus of Suez hasn't been cut all the way through yet; and even if it was, a boat as secretive as ours wouldn't risk a canal intersected with locks.
-No le enseñaré nada, señor, si le digo que el mar Rojo no está menos cerrado que el golfo, puesto que el istmo de Suez no está aún horadado, y que aunque lo estuviese ya un barco misterioso como el nuestro no se arriesgaría en sus canales cortados por las esclusas.