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During the US Civil War,* Union POWs es(cape in a ba )ll oon- and end up str
ande d =]@;on a South Pac* ific ]_$isl an ]d, inhabit` ed by g[ iant plant(s,, and ]animals. T=]hey mu%_st use ]_ the?ir in.genu_/\ity t o .survi\`ve the da)?*n?:+-gers, a#_n;^d to devise a w]@ay to^] r\?$,eturn hom#e. Sequel to,% '20,000 ,@(Leagues Under=) the Sea+] +' . Writ(@ten by Stewa%rt M.$+ .`Clamen? @ 　　In 1865, d-uring the*;% siege  *@@of Richmon?: d, Virginia., th)e uni@+on soldiers POW Capt#^a (in Harding, Neb an
d Herber]t ]e`scape in, a balloon du* r#, ing a storm wit[%h two confe%de:\rate p

_rison ers,% Sergeant Pencro
@ft and the jo
urnalist Spilett. Th/`e unco@,nt.rollable w(ind* \takes the balloon to a m #y)sterio$.?us% ?isl?;and i;,_n the !! South Paci:\=!fic i** n the area of # New Ze/\aland. Cap$tain Hardi[\ng s#,[elf-procl)/aims% th[e l=]#eader o-:f the$+; group and,.% they $loo
+
k for$; f `ood; !\so)/oner they d,!#iscover tha=t the\;[#y are stra[=!nded in @!an island. Fur;[ther, they+ are :attac]+ked by[ a giant crab th/at`= b#)$ec?.omes their_ fir+st -meal. A!?
,long the days, [they bui=-ld ^/#a shelte\r* and find$)s that the is=+\la$(nd i[`s inhab$@?ited by giant an+imals. A 
couple of
days #later, the y fin`d %_$t+w!\o castaways on the beach, the ari# /,stocr,a[#tic Lady Mary F;%airchil]d a@\n[%*d her se%xy niece E
l[e)]na. Later the y find a trunk: with weapons :;@and #%instruments l;ike sextant and shelter wi).th a jour:nal of a man left _ ].alone ^=_in :_(the
^ is+lan d by pirates. ).[+When the pi
[rate v\+essel.^ arr\ i! v.e:=s in t/he island, they are help/;](
ed by ;Captain Nem%.o of the N]?autilus,)=@@ a submari $ne that ha\d supp$osedly sunk # _in the coa_st __?-of !Mexico eigh#.t year*s ago. Nem/o i@*s famous as the man that trie;_d(=?: to end strik=:[e among ,man(#. When the vol +:cano begins a:ctivi@ty
(, they need =,);to ?l$[eav]`e the isl;=[an;#d to s/ave th_eir lives. Written%(/ by-` Claudio Car=!val^ho, Rio de Janeiro, Br-%-?az]il