20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 film) he attacked years ago; she stabbed herself rather than submit to him. He fled with her young daughter and then abandoned the child on the island. The long-tormented Denver has returned to see what became of her. One of the Union soldiers schemes and kidnaps the wild girl onto Denver's yacht. Another soldier swims aboard to rescue her. At the same time, Nemo discovers that the yacht belongs to Denver, the enemy he has been seeking all these years. The Nautilus destroys the yacht with a torpedo, but the girl and her rescuer are saved from the water by Captain
Captain Nemo in 1874 but is set immediately after the American Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. This would mean that Captain Nemo who appeared in "The Mysterious Island" dies "before" Captain Nemo who appeared in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" sets out on the undersea travels. Also, when Captain Nemo is finally seen in "The Mysterious Island", he mentions having met Aronnax 16 years previously. Many errors in the original French first printing (the 'grand in-8' published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel) are likely the fault of the editors who, at that time, were unlikely to consult the authors of the books