"it was an immense octopus, being 8 yards long." "we could clearly see the 250 airholes on the inner sides of its tentacles."-lewis mercier; "It was a giant squid twenty-five feet long. It was heading toward the Nautilus, swimming backward very fast. We could clearly make out the 250 suckers lining the inside of its tentacles... The monster's mouth—a horny beak like that of a parakeet—opened and closed vertically... What a whim of nature! A bird's beak in a mollusk!"-bantam classics and jules verne original
