It was obvious that Captain Nemo wanted to carry out his underwater program, and I had no doubt that he intended, after doubling Cape Horn, to return to the Pacific South Seas.
A stormy passage through the Baltic necessitated lengthy repairs in Portsmouth, England, causing the Pallada to miss the wind currents needed to sweep it around South America's Cape Horn.
Now I ask you, after it had been wounded west of America, how could this animal be killed in the east, unless it had cleared the equator and doubled Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope?
Nevertheless, for hundreds of years, expeditions around the Cape of Good Hope, at the foot of Africa, and Cape Horn, at the tip of South America, were unable to find land.