Part 1 Chapter 24 Summary

The next morning the effects of the drugs wear off. About two in the afternoon Captain Nemo appears to Aronnax and asks him if he is a physician as well as a scientist. Aronnax says he is. The two men go downstairs to the sailors' quarters. A man about forty is bleeding from a terrible wound. His skull is shattered and his brain is exposed. Captain Nemo explains that the man was injured by one of the levers of an engine. Aronnax says nothing can be done: the man will die within a few hours. Aronnax passes the rest of the day with anxiety over what has happened recently. He has no explanation for the events.

The next morning Captain Nemo meets Aronnax on the bridge. Would he and his friends like to make a submarine excursion? Aronnax agrees and even...