Captain Nemo and the Underwater City offers Fraser a position at Templemer. This alienates Joab, who helps Fraser and the Baths steal Nautilus II, on condition they leave without bloodshed, and allow the crew to return with the submarine intact. They manage to take the submarine and are followed by Nemo in his submarine. Nemo explains there is fault with the Nautilus II's engines that means the sub could explode. The chase is brief. Unable to match the speed of the escaping submarine, Nemo has Nautilus I sheer away, to try 'going under the reef.' Confused by their pursuers apparently giving up, Fraser asks the Nautilus
Captain Nemo said to have died of old age, on board the "Nautilus", at Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. Funeral rites were administered by Cyrus Harding, one of the castaways protected by Nemo himself, and his vessel was then submerged in the waters of the grotto. Nemo's character in the novels is largely seen through the observations of Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", when Nemo is about forty years of age and described as a reticent man, tall and swarthy in appearance, with a straight nose and wide-set eyes. In "The