Since our departure from Port Gr?uben, Professor Liedenbrock had entrusted the log to my care; I was to register every observation, make entries of interesting phenomena, the direction of the wind, the rate of sailing, the way we made—in a word, every particular of our singular voyage.
I shall therefore reproduce here these daily notes,written, so to speak, as the course of events directed,in order to furnish an exact narrative of our passage.