In looking through the scuttle Barbicane saw the specter of the dog, and other divers objects which had been thrown from the projectile, obstinately following them. Diana howled lugubriously on seeing the remains of Satellite, which seemed as motionless as if they reposed on solid earth.
"Do you know, my friends," said Michel Ardan,"that if one of us had succumbed to the shock consequent on departure, we should have had a great deal of trouble to bury him? What am I saying?to etherize him, as here ether takes the place of earth.You see the accusing body would have followed us into space like a remorse."