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...voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic was uneventful enough to satisfy the most apprehensive bystander. Every 30 minutes, Lieut. Commander Georges Houot and Engineer Pierre-Henri Willm reported by an ultrasonic signaling device: "Tout va bien" (all is well). At 3:23 p.m. a patrolling airplane saw the yellow steel hull break above the surface...
When they reached the bottom, the officers looked around with the beams of their 1,000-watt searchlights. "We came down on a bed of slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...
...have not added ne mynneshed but have followed as nyghe as I can my copye wich was in dutche; and by me Willm Caxton translated in to this rude and symple englysshe in thabbey of Westminster, and finished the vi daye of Juyn in the yere of our Lord 1481, and the 21 yere of the regne of Kynge Edward the 1111th...
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