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  "slug": "twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-pg164",
  "title": "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea",
  "author": "Jules Verne",
  "language": "en",
  "spoilers": true,
  "characters": [
    {
      "name": "Pierre Aronnax",
      "aliases": [
        "M. Aronnax",
        "Professor Aronnax",
        "the Professor"
      ],
      "description": "The first-person narrator, a French assistant professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris, a marine-life specialist, and a trained doctor and surgeon. After witnessing Captain Nemo sink a warship in an act of vengeance, he escapes the Nautilus with Ned Land and Conseil; they survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles, where Aronnax writes his account."
    },
    {
      "name": "Conseil",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Aronnax’s Flemish servant and devoted companion, who has followed him on scientific travels for ten years. He escapes the Nautilus with Aronnax and Ned Land, and the three survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ned Land",
      "aliases": [
        "the Canadian",
        "the harpooner",
        "Master Land",
        "friend Ned"
      ],
      "description": "A Canadian master harpooner of French-Canadian descent, famed for his skill and courage. He helps Aronnax plan their escape from the Nautilus, and the two escape with Conseil; all three survive the maelstrom and reach the Loffoden Isles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Nemo",
      "aliases": [
        "the commander",
        "the Unknown"
      ],
      "description": "The enigmatic commander of the Nautilus, who reveals that the sunken French ship Avenger’s heroic resistance inspires him. After a warship attacks the Nautilus, he deliberately rams and sinks it, explaining that the vessel represents the people who destroyed his country, wife, children, father, and mother. Aronnax later hears him sob before portraits of a woman and two children, then murmur, “Almighty God! enough! enough!”; his fate remains unknown."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus second lieutenant",
      "aliases": [
        "the second lieutenant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer aboard the Nautilus who recites a daily phrase on the platform. He appears on the platform with sailors before the Nautilus attacks the approaching warship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus crewmen",
      "aliases": [
        "the sailors"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed crewmen aboard the Nautilus who gather around Captain Nemo with shared hatred for the approaching warship and prepare the submarine for its attack."
    },
    {
      "name": "The woman in Captain Nemo’s portrait",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed woman, still young, shown in a portrait in Captain Nemo’s room. Nemo stretches his arms toward the portrait and weeps after sinking the warship."
    },
    {
      "name": "The children in Captain Nemo’s portrait",
      "aliases": [
        "two little children"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed children shown with a young woman in a portrait in Captain Nemo’s room. Nemo stretches his arms toward the portrait and weeps after sinking the warship."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cyrus Field",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The determined promoter of the transatlantic cable project, who risked his fortune and organized a new subscription after earlier cable attempts failed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Anderson of the Great Eastern",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Anderson"
      ],
      "description": "The captain of the Great Eastern during the successful 1866 laying of the transatlantic cable. He consults with the ship’s officers and engineers after nails are found driven into the cable, and posts a warning against the saboteur."
    },
    {
      "name": "Officers of the Great Eastern",
      "aliases": [
        "the officers"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed officers who consult with Captain Anderson and the engineers after nails are found driven into the transatlantic cable."
    },
    {
      "name": "Engineers of the Great Eastern",
      "aliases": [
        "the engineers"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed engineers aboard the Great Eastern who help oversee the laying of the transatlantic cable and consult with Captain Anderson after sabotage is discovered."
    },
    {
      "name": "The cable saboteur",
      "aliases": [
        "the offender",
        "the criminal"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified person aboard the Great Eastern who repeatedly drives nails into the transatlantic cable in an apparent attempt to destroy it. The sabotage stops after Captain Anderson posts a warning."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Poype-Vertrieux",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The commander of the French ship Marseillais when it fought the Preston in 1778."
    },
    {
      "name": "Admiral Estaing",
      "aliases": [
        "Estaing"
      ],
      "description": "The admiral whose squadron took part in the capture of Grenada in 1779."
    },
    {
      "name": "Comte de Grasse",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The commander associated with the French fleet at the Battle of Chesapeake Bay in 1781."
    },
    {
      "name": "Villaret Joyeuse",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The commander of a French squadron at Brest in 1794, which included the Marseillais."
    },
    {
      "name": "Admiral Van Stebel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The commander of the Marseillais in 1794, when it escorted a cargo of corn from America."
    },
    {
      "name": "Avenger",
      "aliases": [
        "Marseillais"
      ],
      "description": "A French ship of seventy-four guns, launched as the Marseillais in 1762 and renamed Avenger by the French Republic. It sank with its crew rather than surrendering after a battle in 1794; Captain Nemo reveres its resistance."
    },
    {
      "name": "Preston",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An English vessel that fought the Marseillais in 1778."
    },
    {
      "name": "The crew of the Avenger",
      "aliases": [
        "356 sailors"
      ],
      "description": "The 356 sailors aboard the French ship Avenger who went down with it in 1794 rather than surrendering."
    },
    {
      "name": "Admiral Chateau-Renaud",
      "aliases": [
        "Chateau-Renaud"
      ],
      "description": "French admiral who escorted the Spanish treasure convoy in 1702. He took the galleons into Vigo Bay and scuttled them when the English fleet arrived."
    },
    {
      "name": "La Perouse",
      "aliases": [
        "Commander La Perouse",
        "La Pérouse"
      ],
      "description": "A French naval commander sent by Louis XVI on a voyage of circumnavigation in 1785. His ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe, wrecked at Vanikoro; the passage also recalls him among the events of Aronnax’s voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Farragut",
      "aliases": [
        "Commander Farragut"
      ],
      "description": "Commander of the Abraham Lincoln, a determined seaman who led the expedition to pursue the mysterious creature. Aronnax recalls that Farragut may have recognized the supposed narwhal as a submarine vessel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Edgar Allan Poe",
      "aliases": [
        "Edgar Poe"
      ],
      "description": "The writer whose imagined polar regions Aronnax recalls while the Nautilus travels through northern seas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gordon Pym",
      "aliases": [
        "fabulous Gordon Pym"
      ],
      "description": "A fictional adventurer by Edgar Poe, whose polar journey Aronnax recalls during the Nautilus’s northward voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ecclesiastes",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical book quoted by Aronnax for its question about whether anyone can fathom what is far off and exceedingly deep."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fisherman of the Loffoden Isles",
      "aliases": [
        "the fisherman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed fisherman whose hut shelters Aronnax after he regains consciousness on the Loffoden Isles."
    },
    {
      "name": "Natives of Papua",
      "aliases": [
        "the Papuans",
        "the savages"
      ],
      "description": "The island’s local people, who approach the Nautilus in growing numbers and attack it with stones and arrows from shore and canoes. Captain Nemo’s electrified barrier drives them away without killing them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Two Nautilus crewmen",
      "aliases": [
        "two of his men"
      ],
      "description": "Two unnamed crewmen who accompany Captain Nemo and Aronnax by boat to the South Pole for observations."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus lieutenant",
      "aliases": [
        "the lieutenant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed lieutenant aboard the Nautilus who plots the ship’s course. He accompanies Captain Nemo during the fight against the poulps and helps defend the submarine."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus crewmen digging through the ice",
      "aliases": [
        "the crew of the Nautilus",
        "the men",
        "the workers"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed crewmen who work in shifts with pickaxes to cut through the ice trapping the Nautilus. They share their breathing apparatuses and air with one another as the vessel’s supply runs dangerously low."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unidentified crewman killed by a poulp",
      "aliases": [
        "the unhappy man",
        "the unfortunate man",
        "the poor Frenchman",
        "Aronnax’s fellow-countryman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed French crewman aboard the Nautilus, whose desperate cry in French reveals him as Aronnax’s fellow-countryman. A poulp seizes and carries him away during the attack; Captain Nemo mourns him."
    },
    {
      "name": "Poulps attacking the Nautilus",
      "aliases": [
        "cuttlefish",
        "the monsters",
        "the cuttlefish"
      ],
      "description": "Large, predatory cephalopods that surround the Nautilus and obstruct its screw. They attack the crew when the submarine surfaces; one carries off a crewman, while Captain Nemo, his lieutenant, Ned Land, Aronnax, Conseil, and the crew fight them off."
    },
    {
      "name": "Creator of all things",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A divine figure whom Aronnax credits with giving poulps their vitality and powers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Aristotle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ancient philosopher whose stated dimensions for cuttlefish are cited by Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "Olaus Magnus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer cited for a story about an enormous octopus said to be a mile long."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop of Nidros",
      "aliases": [
        "the Bishop"
      ],
      "description": "A bishop in a legend cited by Aronnax, who builds an altar on what proves to be a giant poulp."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bishop Pontoppidan",
      "aliases": [
        "Pontoppidan"
      ],
      "description": "A writer cited for a story about a poulp large enough to serve as a place for a regiment of cavalry to manoeuvre."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Paul Bos",
      "aliases": [
        "Paul Bos"
      ],
      "description": "A captain from Havre and Aronnax’s friend, who has repeatedly said that he encountered a gigantic poulp in the Indian seas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bouguer",
      "aliases": [
        "Bouguer"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the despatch-boat Alector, who attacked a large cuttlefish near Teneriffe in 1861. The animal escaped after its tail was severed, and its tale inspires the proposed name “Bouguer’s cuttlefish.”"
    },
    {
      "name": "The author of The Toilers of the Deep",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed poet, whom Aronnax says would have had the skill to describe the poulps’ attack more powerfully."
    },
    {
      "name": "Toussenel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer whose claims about marine animals and the spread of yellow fever are cited by Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nemo's strong companion",
      "aliases": [
        "Captain Nemo's companion",
        "the sailor of the Nautilus",
        "a sort of Hercules",
        "the strong man"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, exceptionally strong crewman who accompanies Captain Nemo on an early submarine walk and performs other arduous tasks aboard the Nautilus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nemo's second",
      "aliases": [
        "the second"
      ],
      "description": "Captain Nemo’s unnamed second-in-command, who scans the horizon from the Nautilus’s platform and gives orders in an unknown language."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus pilot",
      "aliases": [
        "the pilot",
        "the man at the wheel"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, strong man who steers the Nautilus from the pilot’s cage. Captain Nemo joins him there to direct the Nautilus during its attack on the cachalots."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus coal miners",
      "aliases": [
        "Nemo's men in the mines",
        "the crew working in the mines"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Nautilus crewmen who mine coal in the submerged forests beneath the volcanic lagoon, supplying material for the sodium used to generate electricity."
    },
    {
      "name": "Origens",
      "aliases": [
        "Origen"
      ],
      "description": "A figure whose denial of Atlantis is cited by Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "Humbolt",
      "aliases": [
        "Humboldt"
      ],
      "description": "A figure whose denial of Atlantis is cited by Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "Maury",
      "aliases": [
        "the learned Maury",
        "the ingenious American"
      ],
      "description": "An American scholar whose theories about ocean currents and Antarctic land are discussed by Aronnax; the observed land near the South Pole appears to support his Antarctic theory."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Denham",
      "aliases": [
        "Denham"
      ],
      "description": "Captain of the Herald, reported to have sounded the ocean in the South Atlantic without finding its bottom."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lieutenant Parker",
      "aliases": [
        "Parker"
      ],
      "description": "An officer of the American frigate Congress, reported to have sounded the ocean without reaching the bottom."
    },
    {
      "name": "Fredol",
      "aliases": [
        "Fredol's"
      ],
      "description": "A writer whose description of the cachalot is cited by Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "James Ross",
      "aliases": [
        "Ross"
      ],
      "description": "An explorer who found the active Antarctic craters Erebus and Terror and reported coral in the Antarctic seas."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old Proteus",
      "aliases": [
        "Proteus"
      ],
      "description": "A mythological shepherd of Neptune’s flocks, whom Aronnax recalls while observing the seals and morses."
    },
    {
      "name": "Neptune",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The sea god invoked by Aronnax when comparing the Antarctic sea mammals to a flock watched by the mythological Proteus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Southern whales",
      "aliases": [
        "southern whale",
        "whales"
      ],
      "description": "A troop of southern whales encountered by the Nautilus in Antarctic waters. Cachalots attack them, and Captain Nemo intervenes; one dead whale is found with its calf still attached."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cachalots",
      "aliases": [
        "macrocephalous cachalots"
      ],
      "description": "A troop of large, predatory whales that attack the southern whales. Captain Nemo drives the Nautilus through them, killing many."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bees in the volcanic refuge",
      "aliases": [
        "the bees"
      ],
      "description": "Bees nesting in a dragon-tree inside the extinct volcano. Ned Land smokes them out and gathers their honey."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bird wounded by Ned Land",
      "aliases": [
        "the magnificent bird"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed bird in the volcanic refuge that Ned Land wounds with a thrown stone and carries away."
    },
    {
      "name": "Antarctic ruffs",
      "aliases": [
        "ruffs"
      ],
      "description": "Birds nesting in large numbers on the South Pole island; Captain Nemo has hundreds hunted for food."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus crewmen mining sodium",
      "aliases": [
        "the ship's crew"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed crewmen who load the Nautilus with sodium from its reserve at the volcanic refuge."
    },
    {
      "name": "Antarctic seals",
      "aliases": [
        "seals"
      ],
      "description": "Numerous kinds of seals inhabiting the South Pole shore, where they rest, swim, and tend their young. They show little fear of the visitors, having had no contact with people."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sea-elephants",
      "aliases": [
        "sea-elephant"
      ],
      "description": "Large seals with short, flexible trunks observed among the Antarctic seals."
    },
    {
      "name": "Morses",
      "aliases": [
        "morses"
      ],
      "description": "Large sea mammals gathered in numbers on the Antarctic shore. Aronnax and Conseil hear them bellowing and see them playing on the rocks."
    },
    {
      "name": "Penguins",
      "aliases": [
        "penguins"
      ],
      "description": "Numerous Antarctic birds that move awkwardly on land and gather noisily on the South Pole island."
    },
    {
      "name": "Albatrosses",
      "aliases": [
        "albatrosses"
      ],
      "description": "Large Antarctic seabirds seen flying over the South Pole island and during the snowstorm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Petrels",
      "aliases": [
        "petrels"
      ],
      "description": "Antarctic seabirds seen over the South Pole island and heard during the snowstorm."
    },
    {
      "name": "Damiers",
      "aliases": [
        "damiers"
      ],
      "description": "Small duck-like birds observed on the South Pole island."
    },
    {
      "name": "Rays",
      "aliases": [
        "giant rays"
      ],
      "description": "Large rays encountered in the Atlantic; some are about five yards long and can leap above the waves."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sharks",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Several kinds of sharks encountered in the Atlantic, including a nearly transparent specimen about fifteen feet long."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sea-dragon",
      "aliases": [
        "sea-dragons"
      ],
      "description": "A brightly coloured bony fish with spines along its back, noted by Conseil as known since Aristotle’s time."
    },
    {
      "name": "Birds of prey in the volcanic refuge",
      "aliases": [
        "sparrow hawks",
        "kestrels"
      ],
      "description": "Birds of prey that nest and fly in the interior of the extinct volcano."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bustards",
      "aliases": [
        "bustards"
      ],
      "description": "Large birds that run along the slopes of the volcanic refuge; Ned Land wounds one with a stone."
    },
    {
      "name": "Indian pearl diver",
      "aliases": [
        "the Indian fisherman",
        "the fisherman",
        "the unfortunate diver",
        "the poor Cingalese"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Indian diver at the Ceylon pearl banks who gathers oysters from the sea floor. A shark attacks him, but Captain Nemo and Ned Land save him; Nemo gives him a bag of pearls."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus second officer",
      "aliases": [
        "the second officer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who takes the sun’s altitude aboard the Nautilus on 24 January 1868 and appears not to understand French."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nautilus steersman",
      "aliases": [
        "the steersman"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed crew member who steers the Nautilus from its glass cage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Five Nautilus boat crewmen",
      "aliases": [
        "five sailors from the Nautilus",
        "the master and his four companions"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed Nautilus sailors who row Captain Nemo, Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land to the Ceylon pearl banks. One steers the boat and four row."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nemo's cook",
      "aliases": [
        "the cook"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed cook aboard the Nautilus, praised by Captain Nemo for skillfully preparing food from the sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nemo's steward",
      "aliases": [
        "the steward"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, silent steward aboard the Nautilus who brings food and clothes to Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land. He wakes Aronnax before the Ceylon pearl-bank excursion."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second lieutenant of the Nautilus",
      "aliases": [
        "the second lieutenant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed officer aboard the Nautilus who recites a daily phrase on the platform."
    },
    {
      "name": "Four Nautilus divers at Vigo Bay",
      "aliases": [
        "four men of the crew"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed crewmen in diving suits who recover gold, silver, coins, and jewels from the wrecks in Vigo Bay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nicholas of Cape Matapan",
      "aliases": [
        "Pesca",
        "Nicholas",
        "the diver"
      ],
      "description": "A bold Greek diver, known throughout the Cyclades, who swims between the islands and as far as Crete. Captain Nemo recognizes him when he appears beside the Nautilus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Vasco da Gama",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer credited with discovering the island of Kiltan in 1499."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moses",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The biblical leader said to have led the Israelites across the Red Sea; Captain Nemo discusses the crossing and the location where Pharaoh’s army perished."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pharaoh",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The Egyptian ruler whose army, according to Captain Nemo, perished while pursuing Moses and the Israelites across the Red Sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Sesostris",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient Egyptian ruler whom tradition credits with beginning a canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Necos",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An Egyptian ruler who undertook work on a canal from the Nile towards the Red Sea in 615 BCE."
    },
    {
      "name": "Darius, son of Hystaspes",
      "aliases": [
        "Darius"
      ],
      "description": "A Persian ruler who continued the canal works begun by Necos."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ptolemy II",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler who probably completed the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Strabo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An ancient geographer who saw the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea in use."
    },
    {
      "name": "Antonius",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A Roman-era ruler whose time is given as the period when the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea was abandoned."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caliph Omar",
      "aliases": [
        "Omar"
      ],
      "description": "A caliph who ordered the restoration of the ancient canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea."
    },
    {
      "name": "Caliph Al-Mansor",
      "aliases": [
        "Al-Mansor"
      ],
      "description": "A caliph who ordered the canal linking the Nile and the Red Sea destroyed in 761 or 762 to prevent supplies reaching a rebel."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mohammed-ben-Abdallah",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A rebel against Caliph Al-Mansor whose forces were the intended recipients of provisions the caliph sought to block."
    },
    {
      "name": "General Bonaparte",
      "aliases": [
        "Bonaparte"
      ],
      "description": "The French general who discovered traces of the ancient canal works in the Desert of Suez during the expedition into Egypt and nearly drowned in the tide."
    },
    {
      "name": "M. Lesseps",
      "aliases": [
        "Lesseps"
      ],
      "description": "The French engineer who built the Suez Canal. Captain Nemo praises his will and achievement."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis XIV",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "King of France who placed his grandson, the Duke of Anjou, on the Spanish throne."
    },
    {
      "name": "Philip V",
      "aliases": [
        "the Duke of Anjou"
      ],
      "description": "King of Spain and grandson of Louis XIV, whose claim was challenged by a European coalition in the War of the Spanish Succession."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles III",
      "aliases": [
        "the archduke"
      ],
      "description": "An archduke whom the alliance of Holland, Austria, and England prematurely proclaimed as a claimant to the Spanish crown."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanish commanders of the convoy",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Unnamed commanders of the Spanish treasure convoy who insisted that the galleons be taken to a Spanish port, preferably Vigo Bay."
    },
    {
      "name": "Merchants of Cadiz",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A group of merchants who held the right to receive goods from the West Indies and persuaded Philip V to keep the treasure convoy at Vigo rather than unload it elsewhere."
    },
    {
      "name": "English fleet commander at Vigo",
      "aliases": [
        "commander of the English vessels"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed English naval commander whose fleet arrived in Vigo Bay on 22 October 1702 and attacked the Spanish convoy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanish treasure galleon crews",
      "aliases": [
        "the sailors aboard the galleons"
      ],
      "description": "Unnamed crews aboard the Spanish galleons sunk in Vigo Bay during the battle of 1702."
    },
    {
      "name": "Incas",
      "aliases": [
        "the conquered of Ferdinand Cortez"
      ],
      "description": "The people whose treasures were taken by Spanish conquest; Aronnax understands Nemo’s recovered wealth to include metals torn from them."
    },
    {
      "name": "Ferdinand Cortez",
      "aliases": [
        "Cortez"
      ],
      "description": "The Spanish conqueror whose conquest is associated with treasure taken from the peoples of the Americas."
    },
    {
      "name": "The Israelites",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The people led by Moses across the Red Sea, as discussed by Nemo and Aronnax."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arabs of the Red Sea coast",
      "aliases": [
        "the Arabs"
      ],
      "description": "Ancient sailors described by Captain Nemo as navigating the Red Sea in primitive ships without reliable instruments."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Nemo’s correspondent",
      "aliases": [
        "Nemo’s correspondent"
      ],
      "description": "An unidentified recipient to whom Captain Nemo sends a chest of gold through the Nautilus’s pinnace. His identity and location are not revealed."
    },
    {
      "name": "Spanish treasure recovery company",
      "aliases": [
        "rival society"
      ],
      "description": "A company granted permission by the Spanish Government to search the Vigo Bay wrecks. Its shareholders expect a large return, unaware that Nemo has already taken much of the treasure."
    },
    {
      "name": "Natives of Gilboa",
      "aliases": [
        "the natives"
      ],
      "description": "Local people on Gilboa, first inferred from the birds’ wariness and local names and trade in wildlife. They later appear in large numbers, armed with bows, arrows, and slings, and attack the Nautilus and its visitors; Nemo frightens them away with an electrified barrier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Papuan chief near the Nautilus",
      "aliases": [
        "the mado"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Papuan chief who examines the Nautilus at close range. Aronnax thinks he may be a high-ranking mado because of his distinctive banana-leaf mat."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unidentified dying Nautilus crewman",
      "aliases": [
        "the wounded man",
        "the dead man",
        "the man who died in the night"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed crewman about forty years old, wounded in the head by a fatal blow. Aronnax says he cannot be saved; Captain Nemo and the crew bury him in their underwater coral cemetery."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dumont d'Urville",
      "aliases": [
        "commander of the Astrolabe"
      ],
      "description": "A French naval commander who sailed to Vanikoro to investigate La Perouse’s fate and recovered wreckage from the reefs. Captain Nemo praises him as a great navigator and says he later died in a railway accident."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles Darwin",
      "aliases": [
        "Darwin",
        "Mr. Darwin"
      ],
      "description": "A naturalist whose theory of coral reef and atoll formation is discussed by Aronnax. He had visited Keeling Island with Captain Fitzroy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Fitzroy",
      "aliases": [
        "Fitzroy"
      ],
      "description": "A captain who visited Keeling Island with Charles Darwin."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cuvier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naturalist whom Aronnax cites for comparing the argonaut’s shell to an elegant skiff."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lacepede",
      "aliases": [
        "Lacepède"
      ],
      "description": "A naturalist whose classification of fishes is cited in Conseil’s notes."
    },
    {
      "name": "Arago",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose language is mentioned by Aronnax as one that the Nautilus's visitors evidently do not understand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Faraday",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A person whose language is mentioned by Aronnax as one that the Nautilus's visitors evidently do not understand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gratiolet",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A scholar whose work is invoked as an example of how one might read a person's character from their face."
    },
    {
      "name": "Engel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A scholar whose work is invoked as an example of how one might read a person's character from their face."
    },
    {
      "name": "Milne Edwards",
      "aliases": [
        "Aronnax's master"
      ],
      "description": "Aronnax's former teacher, credited with classifying madrepores."
    },
    {
      "name": "Tavernier",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A traveller who sold a famous pearl to the Shah of Persia for three million."
    },
    {
      "name": "Shah of Persia",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler who bought a famous pearl from Tavernier."
    },
    {
      "name": "Imaum of Muscat",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A ruler who owns a famous pearl, which Aronnax had believed to be unrivalled."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Crespo",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "The captain who recognized the island of Crespo in 1801."
    },
    {
      "name": "Orpheus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A mythic musician invoked by Captain Nemo when describing the musicians represented in his collection."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Baker",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Captain of the steamer Governor Higginson, which first encountered the mysterious creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "Commodore Fitz-James",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A naval officer whose staff surveyed the mysterious creature aboard the Lord Clyde."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pliny",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Ancient writer whose accounts are cited as admitting the existence of sea monsters."
    },
    {
      "name": "Paul Heggede",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A writer whose accounts of sea monsters are cited in the public debate."
    },
    {
      "name": "Mr. Harrington",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A man whose good faith is said to be beyond suspicion; he reported seeing an enormous serpent aboard the Castillan in 1857."
    },
    {
      "name": "Linnæus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Naturalist whose remark that nature did not make fools is quoted by opponents of the monster's existence."
    },
    {
      "name": "Abbé Moigno",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Editor associated with the Cosmos, a publication that discussed the monster controversy."
    },
    {
      "name": "Hippolytus",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A figure invoked in a comparison describing a satirical article that supposedly delivered the monster's death-blow."
    },
    {
      "name": "J. B. Hobson",
      "aliases": [
        "J.B. Hobson"
      ],
      "description": "Secretary of Marine for the United States, who invites Aronnax to join the Abraham Lincoln expedition."
    },
    {
      "name": "Moby Dick",
      "aliases": [
        "the white whale"
      ],
      "description": "A legendary white whale cited as an example of the enormous sea creatures imagined in stories and public caricatures."
    },
    {
      "name": "Dieudonné de Gozon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A knight invoked in comparison with Captain Farragut, said to have gone to confront the serpent that ravaged an island."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain of the Monroe",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed American whaling captain who asks Ned Land to help pursue a whale; Land harpoons two."
    },
    {
      "name": "Old gunner",
      "aliases": [
        "grey-bearded gunner"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed, grey-bearded gunner aboard the Abraham Lincoln who fires at the mysterious creature and hits it."
    },
    {
      "name": "Engineer of the Abraham Lincoln",
      "aliases": [
        "the engineer"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed engineer aboard the Abraham Lincoln who responds to the commander's orders about the ship's steam and engines."
    },
    {
      "name": "Second lieutenant of the Abraham Lincoln",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed officer who loads the blunderbusses and duck-guns before the crew prepares to fight the creature."
    },
    {
      "name": "Man at the wheel",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An unnamed crew member at the Abraham Lincoln's wheel who reports the frigate's speed during the chase."
    },
    {
      "name": "Unidentified crewman",
      "aliases": [
        "the man who appeared from the submarine"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed man who appears briefly through a panel in the submarine and then disappears inside."
    },
    {
      "name": "James Cook",
      "aliases": [
        "Cook"
      ],
      "description": "A British explorer and captain whose death in Hawaii and shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef are mentioned; the Nautilus passes the reef and Hawaii."
    },
    {
      "name": "Jean Macé",
      "aliases": [
        "Jean Mace"
      ],
      "description": "The author of The Slaves of the Stomach, which Aronnax is reading aboard the Nautilus."
    },
    {
      "name": "Five people aboard the Florida",
      "aliases": [
        "the four sailors and the woman with an infant"
      ],
      "description": "Five unnamed people found dead, bound on the wreck of the Florida: four sailors, including the steersman, and a young woman holding her infant."
    },
    {
      "name": "Infant aboard the Florida",
      "aliases": [
        "the infant"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed infant held above the water by its mother among the dead aboard the wreck of the Florida."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Bell",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Captain of the Minerva, who discovered Clermont-Tonnere in 1822."
    },
    {
      "name": "Quiros",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer who discovered the New Hebrides in 1606."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bougainville",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An explorer who explored the New Hebrides in 1768."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain de Langle",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "La Perouse's second-in-command on the expedition aboard the Boussole and Astrolabe, both of which were lost at Vanikoro."
    },
    {
      "name": "Louis XVI",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "King of France who sent La Perouse on his 1785 expedition and annotated the expedition's instructions in his own hand."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bruni d'Entrecasteaux",
      "aliases": [
        "D’Entrecasteaux"
      ],
      "description": "Commander of the Recherche and Esperance, sent in 1791 to search for La Perouse. His expedition passed Vanikoro without stopping, and he died during the voyage."
    },
    {
      "name": "Bowen",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Commander of the Albemarle, who reported seeing shipwreck debris on the coasts of New Georgia."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Hunter",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A captain whose report identified the Admiralty Islands as the place where La Perouse was wrecked."
    },
    {
      "name": "Captain Dillon",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "A veteran Pacific sailor who first found convincing evidence of La Perouse's wrecks at Vanikoro and returned to investigate in 1827."
    },
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      "name": "Lascar at Tikopia",
      "aliases": [
        "the Lascar"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed Lascar who told Captain Dillon that he had seen two Europeans from wrecked vessels at Vanikoro and sold him a sword handle."
    },
    {
      "name": "Charles X",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "King of France who warmly welcomed Captain Dillon on his return."
    },
    {
      "name": "James Hobbs",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Second lieutenant of the Union of Calcutta, who reported seeing iron bars and red cloth used by local people on an island."
    },
    {
      "name": "M. Jacquireot",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "An officer whom the people of Vanikoro guided to the wreck site after receiving presents."
    },
    {
      "name": "Legoarant de Tromelin",
      "aliases": [],
      "description": "Commander of the Bayonnaise, sent by the French Government to Vanikoro after Dumont d'Urville's expedition."
    },
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      "aliases": [
        "the deserter"
      ],
      "description": "An unnamed deserter found on Tikopia who served as guide and interpreter for Dumont d'Urville's expedition to Vanikoro."
    },
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      "name": "Natives of Vanikoro",
      "aliases": [
        "the savages of Vanikoro"
      ],
      "description": "Local people who initially withheld information from Dumont d'Urville's expedition, then guided Jacquireot to the wreck site; some survivors of La Perouse's wrecks had earlier stayed on the island."
    },
    {
      "name": "Natives of Louisiade and New Caledonia",
      "aliases": [
        "the savages of Louisiade and New Caledonia"
      ],
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