Now after Captain Nemo had faked his own death on Mysterious Island in 1865 he'd taken the Nautilus to Bolvia ( somehow)
and devoted his remaining years between enjoying life and also developing
electro-steam powered mechanical humans and stuff.
So Butch and Harry gazed with wonder at the silent bronze mechanical men,women and dragons Captain Nemo had built with a secret team of Bolivian scientists about 3 and a half decades earlier.
We know that the Americans,getting wind of this secret underground base,had tried
to infiltrate it,but never could find its location and wonders it contained.
And so for decades,the mothballed Nautilus had silently hummed somewhere,providing the power needed to keep the
abandoned secret military anti-slave/slave replacement base alive.
Every now and then the local native Indian bolivians,whom a dying Nemo had entrusted his secret to
3-1/2 decades earlier,came to the base to polish the compass and steering wheel of the Nautilus.
And the fellow chosen for the chore this fine day,grew alarmed when she heard the footsteps of
the two awestruck outlaws as they entered Captain Nemo's secret mechanical-being lair...