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caused no suspicion. Besides it soon after sank with
all hands.

On Serké’s model, and under his special supervision,
the vessel was built, and. he made use of all the latest
developments. of nautical science in its construction, and
also electric science and invention.

Needless to say, no one recognized in Count d’Artigas,
Ker Karraje the former pirate of the Pacific, or in Serké the
engineer, the most active and resolute of his accomplices.
They only knew him as a foreigner of high birth and large
fortune who for a year had frequented the ports of the
United States in his yacht, for the 4dda was launched
long before the building of the tug was complete,

This work occupied quite eighteen months. When it
was finished the new vessel excited the admiration of all
who were interested in engines of submarine navigation,
By its exterior form, its interior appropriateness, its system
of ventilation, its stability, its instant immersion, the ease
with which it could be handled and steered, its facility of
evolution, and its extraordinary rapidity, it far surpassed
the successors of the Goudet, the Gymmnote, the Zédé, and
other specimens already brought to such perfection at that
time. :

After several successful experiments, a public trial took
place in the open sea four miles beyond Charleston, in the
presence of numerous men-of-war, merchant-vessels, and
pleasure boats, American and foreign, which assembled for
the purpose.

Of course the Edda was among the number of these