After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.
"At last one can see," cried Ned Land, who, knife in hand, stood on the defensive.
"Yes," said I; "but we are still in the dark about ourselves." "Let master have patience," said the imperturbable Conseil.
The sudden lighting of the cabin enabled me to examine it minutely.

It only contained a table and five stools.

The invisible door might be hermetically sealed.

No noise was heard.

All seemed dead in the interior of this boat.