Selenographic charts have been constructed with a perfection which equals, if it does not even surpass, that of our terrestrial maps.
They also smashed the vessel's compass, and tore up the charts. For the next two days the crew existed on a few biscuits, which the pirates had left behind.
The French Cable Company, which was at work trying to repair the cables broken by the eruption, found the bottom of the Caribbean Sea so changed as to render the old charts useless.