On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day.
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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