Transcription: Just as I thought, said my uncle, we are in a narrow shaft just 30 feet wide. The water that brought us down here has reached the bottom. Now it is forcing itself upwards and taking us along with it. We were rising faster and faster. Every so often we found it difficult to breathe as happens to aeronauts who ascend too quickly. But while aeronauts feel colder as they go higher into the atmosphere, here we were experiencing the opposite effect. The temperature was rising. By now it must have reached 40 degrees centigrade. If we aren't drowned or smashed to pieces or die of starvation, we have e ...
