Transcription: Many days passed without further incidents. Our observation showed we had already travelled nearly 800 miles across this sea and that our position was exactly under England. It was now August the 21st and we could sense the calm weather we had been enjoying was about to change. A distant sound of thunder became louder and louder and suddenly we were in the midst of a wild and raging tempest. from the most distant corners of the mighty cavern. It roared, it yelled, it shrieked with the glee of demons. The raft rose and fell with the storm. It moved faster and faster before the wind. Would the s ...
