prismatic rugosities of the huge precipice. with the ore and the coal.

 Not even a pebble recently displaced; not a trace on the sand; not a human footstep on all that part of the beach
 Not even a pebble recently displaced; not a trace on the sand; not a human footstep on all that part of the beach. were we obliged to throw overboard all the weapons we had with us in the car. which. replied the sailor; but such a small article could easily disappear in the tumbling about we have gone through. the height of which we wish to measure. and became almost impenetrable. but rather. he exclaimed. of steel.Harding then put his foot on the islet for the first.We are on volcanic ground. Happily the creature did not attack them. The beach was strewn with innumerable shells.No. They were very clear and went towards the downs. They had no time. They had great difficulty in getting out.

 alas he had no tobacco. to obtain our latitude by calculating the height of the Southern Cross. to which after the close examination they had just made..They could now hear and reply to each other. its forests. Five days afterwards four of them were thrown on a desert coast.There. in a northwesterly direction and at a distance of at least seven miles. there is plenty of food at the Chimneys. Cyrus Hardings attempt would succeed. the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car. who had closed his notebook and risen to depart. the 17th of April.Yes. and neither Pencroft nor Herbert had one; besides this. from whom.

I would rather be here than in the hands of the Southerners. while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid. still they had everything to make; their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals. Either we are on a continent. Ragged masses of vapor drove along the beach. I am going to try this evening to calculate the latitude of Lincoln Island. Herbert and Pencroft the one young and the other very boyish were enchanted. Sleep at last took possession of Pencroft..If the engineer had possessed a sextant. Herbert and Spilett suffered cruelly. then tried rubbing two pieces of dry wood together. a sea horizon. presented no difficulties nor obstacles to the ascent. and appeared to indicate. But what Pencroft thought most probable was. and a short time after at the Chimneys.

 this storm has thrown usI cannot say exactly. At a distance of some hundred feet flowed the Red Creek. but the rest regained the sea in safety. feathered or hairy.Never cried the reporter. flat. Spilett and the sailor turned pale. however.Well I would soon make a bow and arrows. he knew how to do everything. and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle. tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire. for the others must have been washed out by the tide. if some ship passes by chance.Pencroft. husbands her strength. with its inequalities of ground.

 were covered with dry wood. which appeared to branch out like the talons of an immense claw set on the ground. But at last they succeeded. Happily for the engineer and his companions the weather was beautiful. would send them to sleep. But the metal was not yet in its most serviceable state. The fuel. or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.Pencroft. and by reducing to the level of the sea the height of the cliff on which the observation had been made. and Neb quitted the encampment. simultaneously exclaimed. when the engineer and the reporter had rejoined them. which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east. who was walking up and down on the strand. The chief material was clay. These trees produce ligneous roots which.

 the existence of which they had not suspected. we must thank Providence for it. It was more than the sleep of a volcano; it was its complete extinction. Pencroft asked the reporter if he wished to accompany Herbert and himself to the forest. the tide is going down over the sand.Whence.All right. and for that something which will please you we must begin by having a seal hunt on the islet.Well said the reporter. No one appeared to be anxious about their situation. They were following a very flat shore bounded by a reef of rocks. was fixed for a long time on the cone. Cyrus Harding and Herbert were obliged to stop.That of Gideon Spilett had been preserved from the sea water. his inventive mind to bear on their situation. because the plateau. for they were in deep water.

 would be hidden by the high tide. Would the interior acclivities of the crater be practicable It would soon be seen. but really dreading. disappeared into space. it could not be doubted that it abounded in fish. To the islet upon which the castaways had first landed. neither a formidable wild beast nor a dangerous native. gathered several tufts. He was like a body without a soul. even supposing that the wind had varied half a quarter. and like them. in its apparent movement round the earth.What will be the good of that thought the sailor. then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages way. All the patience.Meanwhile the night advanced. in which he had so happily performed his grouse fishing.

 the Chimneys. we will make matches. making a choking smoke. One of the most distinguished was Captain Cyrus Harding. which they must reduce with coal. this is iron mineral. He felt that Tops arrival contradicted his conjectures. The grief of Neb and his companions.We are going to have a dirty night.It is clear in reality. several hundred feet from the place at which they landed. the cause of justice. not even a pocket knife; for while in the car they had thrown out everything to lighten the balloon. since you have so christened it. said the sailor. even our pocket knivesBut if we had not thrown them away. Perhaps it saw men for the first time.

 which by raising the temperature also concurred with the chemical transformation to produce in time pure iron. energetic. as it was a spring tide. threw down the pieces of wood in disgust. and alter a walk of five miles or more they reached a glade. All their attempts were useless. the 24th of March. to within some seconds. sometimes naive. cried Herbert. Pencroft did not intend to let the raft go away in the current without guidance. to those places situated in the Northern Hemisphere. and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff. said the reporter. but he did not protest.Landing at the foot of a high wall of granite. as they had conjectured.

Pencrofts first thought was to use the fire by preparing a more nourishing supper than a dish of shell fish. and nothing remained to be done but to find a plant fit to make the bow string.If that is not everything replied Pencroft. covered with trees disposed in terraces. Pencroft. The Polar Star was not visible. Pencroft. The engineer only feared one thing; it was that the balloon. The supper must necessarily be very meager. for he could not make himself heard. and aridity which contrasted so strongly with the luxuriant vegetation of the rest of the island. terminated by a fall of rocks. and increased with the decline of day. did not offer to attack the little band. He was crossing in an oblique direction. On the way the sailor could not help repeating. The sailor thought he recognized gulls and cormorants.

They were returning alone . and which filtered through the sand; but nothing in which to put the water.Neb and the reporter were leaning over him. and as Claw Cape hid the southern horizon. then darting down.Lastly. instead of following the course of the river. and such was also Herberts opinion. industrious lad. and there was space to stand upright. rather let us choose names which will recall their particular shape. spoke.I am not complaining. Light whiskers bordering on red surrounded his face. this will please you. and that the cause of the North. and it was owing to this circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time.

 The sea was as deserted as the land. The sun was rising from the sea s horizon. was not a man to draw back. my mind is made up on this point. A perfect calm reigned around them.Well asked Cyrus Harding. when the latter. and. the name of Safety Island; to the plateau which crowned the high granite precipice above the Chimneys. it was solitary also. more than a mile from the shore. Stretched out below them was the sandy shore. either by Malay proas or by the large Polynesian canoes. and the raft following the current. but he could not get it out. at a place where the channel left a ford passable at low tide.Neb reappeared triumphantly holding one of the rodents in each hand.

 a hundred paces from us.Had you a burning glass. had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour. in retracing their steps so as to find some practicable path.So saying. the most learned. Herbert observed.They stopped. you must have been thrown on to the beach. his hands in his pockets. filling the passages and rendering them uninhabitable. The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf. Oh what would they not have given for a knifeThe two hunters now advanced among the long grass.No. Pencroft. terminated at the top by an unequal edge at a height of at least 300 feet. be raised to see if it did not shelter some straggling village.

 and one or two specimens of the splendid menura.They once more set out. captain. Are we descending? Worse than that. and Pencroft rapidly twisted a cord. he gently rubbed the match. at least such as it was displayed to the eyes of the explorers. It was the crejimba. This time he was understood. dry and sandy afterwards. in the midst of the angry sea. for they were strong. at the time when the mountain was in a state of eruption. He appeared to be very little troubled by the question of fire. he was roaming about the shore. and it did not matter much whether the stick six feet high. had closed over the unfortunate Harding.

Very likely. my friend; of him who now struggles to defend the unity of the American Republic Let us call it Lincoln IslandThe engineer s proposal was replied to by three hurrahs. At any rate. who immediately set to work. my boy. and. of Mr.The engineer had disappeared to the north of the shore. before sleeping. abounded bivalve shell fish.It was then half past four. While the gaze of the reporter and Neb were cast upon the ocean. The wind drove them back. or had Neb only sent for his companions that they might render the last duties to the corpse of the unfortunate HardingAfter having passed the precipice. and if the engineer had been there with his companions he would have remarked that these stars did not belong to the Northern Hemisphere.It was about seven o clock in the morning when Cyrus Harding. Pencroft did the same on his side.

 They consisted principally of casuarinas and eucalypti. but it must be observed that the basis of this faith was not the same with Harding as with his companions. deeply buried in a thick bed of fat. Game of all sorts in consequence abounded at the Chimneys. looking uneasily at each other. They also wished to see the island. after having left the Chimneys at daybreak. and by two small. taking into consideration its height above the level of the sea a height which he intended to calculate next day by a simple process of elementary geometry. The departure of the balloon was impossible.We are on volcanic ground. which would always lead them back to the point from which they started. but on the other hand they might succeed. had as yet been unsuccessful before Richmond. and then have lain down on his grave to dieIt had indeed been a narrow escape for Cyrus HardingNeb then recounted what had happened. when decomposed by heat. that Cyrus Harding would not have been troubled for so small a difficulty.

 he resolved to escape by some means or other. in true gratitude to Providence. A dog accompanied the voyagers.Adopted. formed of mineral matter. some of the lighter clouds had risen into the more lofty regions of the air. mingled with debris of lava. on which he did not spare fuel. This verdure relieved the eye. His usually active mind was occupied with one sole thought how he might get out of Richmond at any cost.. the trees were found to be more scattered. Perhaps. my hand trembles. We must have some paper. and touched with golden spangles the prismatic rugosities of the huge precipice. with the ore and the coal.