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Ned Land is a highly talented harpooner from Quebec who joins Professor Arronax, Arronax’s servant Conseil, and Commander Farragut aboard the Abraham Lincoln in pursuit of a sea “monster.” Like Arronax, Ned is about 40, and Arronax feels a connection with him due to their linked countries of origin (Canada and France). In most other ways, the two men are incredibly different. Ned is bold and brave, with a warrior-like quality to him. However, he is also substantially less intelligent than all the other main characters in the novel, and does not share Arronax and Nemo’s enthusiasm for science. Of all three captives, Ned is most suspicious of Nemo and most eager to escape the Nautilus. He forms a close bond with Conseil, whom he affectionately nicknames “little cabbage.”
Ned Land Quotes in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Ned Land or refer to Ned Land. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 8
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“By the pluck!” he fumed. “Here are people as badly off as the Scotch for hospitality. They are gentle as cannibals. And I shouldn’t be surprised if they were man-eaters. But I’ll be right there when they start to swallow me.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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We were growing fast to our shell like snails, and I swear it must be easy to lead a snail’s existence. Thus, our undersea life began to seem natural to us, and we no longer thought of the days we used to spend on land.
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Part 2, Chapter 8
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“Freedom may come high, but it’s worth paying for […] Who knows but that tomorrow we may be a hundred leagues away? Let chance but favor us, sir, and by ten or eleven o’clock we shall have landed on terra firma, dead or alive.”
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It was an unforgettably sad day that I then passed, torn between the desire of regaining my freedom and my dislike of abandoning the marvelous ship and thus leaving my undersea studies incomplete.
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I had long guessed that, whatever motive had led him to seek freedom at the bottom of the ocean, it had not been an ignoble one. I had seen that his heart still beat for the sorrows of humanity, and sensed that his immense charity was for oppressed races as well as individuals.
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Ned Land Quotes in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea quotes below are all either spoken by Ned Land or refer to Ned Land. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 8
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“By the pluck!” he fumed. “Here are people as badly off as the Scotch for hospitality. They are gentle as cannibals. And I shouldn’t be surprised if they were man-eaters. But I’ll be right there when they start to swallow me.”
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Part 1, Chapter 23
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We were growing fast to our shell like snails, and I swear it must be easy to lead a snail’s existence. Thus, our undersea life began to seem natural to us, and we no longer thought of the days we used to spend on land.
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Part 2, Chapter 8
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“Freedom may come high, but it’s worth paying for […] Who knows but that tomorrow we may be a hundred leagues away? Let chance but favor us, sir, and by ten or eleven o’clock we shall have landed on terra firma, dead or alive.”
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It was an unforgettably sad day that I then passed, torn between the desire of regaining my freedom and my dislike of abandoning the marvelous ship and thus leaving my undersea studies incomplete.
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I had long guessed that, whatever motive had led him to seek freedom at the bottom of the ocean, it had not been an ignoble one. I had seen that his heart still beat for the sorrows of humanity, and sensed that his immense charity was for oppressed races as well as individuals.
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