About two in the morning
For a part of the night the novelty of the situation kept us at the window . The sea was lit with the electric lantern ; but it was deserted ; fishes did not sojourn in these imprisoned waters ; they only found there a passage to take them from the Antarctic Ocean to the open polar sea . Our pace was rapid ; we could feel it by the quivering of the long steel body . About two in the morning I took some hours ' repose , and Conseil did the same . In crossing the waist I did not meet Captain Nemo : I supposed him to be in the pilot 's cage . The next morning , the 19th of March , I took my post once more in the saloon . The electric log told me that the speed of the Nautilus had been slackened .