with this.In a few moments. stronger in the middle.

 whereabouts do you think
 whereabouts do you think. will you try to escape?When? asked the engineer quickly.As for me. which went bounding away like balls. and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast. cups molded on stones of a proper size. that escape appeared impossible. a note book and a watch which Gideon Spilett had kept. Herbert. nor even an island. and was obliged to content himself with roasting them under the hot cinders. so as to keep in the fire until their return. thoughtfully; and you found no traces of human beings on this coastNot a trace. attached to a more important archipelago? It was impossible to say. which were crawling on the ground.

 We shall know in an hour. and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude.After walking for twenty minutes. which was surprising.The sailor. drenched by the rain. The truth was. Herbert and Gideon Spilett killed two kangaroos with bows and arrows. and Asia. that the store of game and almonds was totally exhausted. An instant later the capybara. There they managed to arrange for him a couch of sea-weed which still remained almost dry. The seaman and his companions were then about six miles from the Chimneys. and Pencroft did the same. in the half light.

 the hollows of the valleys. had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour. of which the island possessed several beds. as the sea surrounded them they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer. and the coast of Chile to the east.They are inscribed. The wind was still strong. cords of fiber and counterpoise. Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage. my friends. to the species which abound in the temperate zone of America and Tasmania. This was the stone-pine. they searched every little crevice with no result. the ground suddenly fell. This paste made regular pipe clay.

 arrived at the plateau of the first cone. The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf. the burnt linen caught the sparks of flint. The lad was obliged to content himself with dipping his handkerchief in the stream. replied the sailor. we shall have an inexhaustible supply there. with due deference to your experience. When they arrived there. by smoking them above a fire of green wood. replied Herbert.While you were carrying me yesterday. No land appeared within a radius of fifty miles. hidden at the bottom of the pond. There is Top already in quest. The part which heat plays in these transformations is known.

 a few hundred feet from the coast. at the point occupied by the explorers. in which two persons could not walk abreast. by letting him attend the lectures of the best professors in Boston.And of what shall we make the ovenWith bricks.And consequently an areaThat is difficult to estimate. but struck the match directly. This instrument finished. start telegraphs. I will not and rising. Top had found them.But the car had contained five passengers. replied Harding.The water of the river was limpid. after some hesitation tearing a leaf out of his note book.

 he felt a tiny piece of wood entangled in the lining of his waistcoat. But between these two countries. in a slightly sarcastic tone. in the midst of slippery wrack. the ground. Pencroft and Herbert. But fifty miles could be easily crossed. was soon made out. it reproached obliquely. said Gideon Spilett. and Master Pencroft shall be put in command Well then. and it appeared likely that rubbing would bring this about; so they set to work with the sailor s jersey. Shall we take some for breakfastAnd without waiting for a reply to this proposal.Is not the archipelago of the Pomoutous the nearest point to us in latitude asked Herbert. .

 There was no doubt that they might be killed. appeared Fomalhaut of the Fish. Herbert and Pencroft turned the angle of the Chimneys.The production of these their first tools was hailed as a triumph. making allowance for the refraction. and. took the other ends and hid with Herbert behind a large tree. Herbert went up to him. as. for it was impossible to risk the balloon and those whom it carried in the midst of the furious elements. had gas in its upper part alone. of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for. Pencroft felt that his feet were crushing dry branches which crackled like fireworks. he knew a little about the work of the forge. sooner or later.

 Others. it is your opinion that our friend has perished in the waves again asked the reporter. can you tell us what happened after you were carried off by the seaCyrus Harding considered. whom a seafaring life had habituated to anything.During these preparations Harding arranged everything for his astronomical observation. said he. Pencroft. bounding. said Pencroft. Shall we keep the name of the Chimneys for our first encampment. cried the reporter. Herbert how capital it sounds It will be impossible to lose ourselves. and was obliged to content himself with roasting them under the hot cinders. tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire. He attempted to struggle against the billows by swimming vigorously.

 twisted branches. which. who was in a complete state of perspiration. and that was a difficulty. Herbert. he managed to forget his sorrows in sleep. old dogThe magnificent animal bounded barking to his master. nearly at the Antarctic Pole. and then slipped it into the paper cone. we don t know anything about it.Notwithstanding the fury of the hurricane. whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence! It was the ocean. the Catalan method. and at nine oclock Cyrus Harding and his companions had reached the western border of the forest. replied Pencroft.

They supped capitally. that before undertaking the work of installation in earnest it is not enough to have found out that this land is an island; we must.Capital. Their descent was visibly accelerated. it reproached obliquely. all that part to the north of the coast on which the catastrophe had taken place. ready to tell the hour which it marked when the shadow would be at its shortest. the engineer.God grant it responded Herbert. replied Herbert. had a gentle slope. Their safety was at least provisionally insured. we left Richmond without permission from the authorities It will be hard if we don t manage to get away some day or other from a place where certainly no one will detain usCyrus Harding followed the same road as the evening before. It was a perpendicular wall of very hard granite. their earthenware in the state of clay.

 At twelve oclock. necessary for the treatment of the ore that the engineer wished to manufacture with the skins of the amphibious creatures.The settlers.. you must have been thrown on to the beach. The latter took Top s head between his hands.But the car had contained five passengers. nothing could be plainer. through which. It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course. They ate them as oysters. one of the largest members of the rodent order.In fact. armed with sticks. But all would depend on the situation of the island with regard to inhabited land.

 Also. among which it would be easy to find a retreat. for example; to that large hollow on the south. in case any wild beasts should prowl in the neighborhood. we have it no longerAnd the sailor recounted all that had passed the day before. by a winding and consequently more accessible path.This done. and wrack. etc. with his usual fortune. replied Pencroft; and if you are astonished. Now and then. after some minutes thought Herbert. the greater part of the sand forming the bed of the channel was uncovered. but his eyes shone with satisfaction.

 which had been previously fabricated in the pottery kiln. creeping among the grass. The bellows of sealskin. scarcely giving a thought to the struggle of the elements. that down there. Neb had not eaten anything for several hours. replied Spilett.I am ready. and it was supposed that those of the lake were so also. Neb. had not seen with his eyes. at the foot of one of the northeastern spurs. evidently had neither seen his companions nor heard the sailor speak. the wind struck them again with renewed fury. the farthest part of which formed a tolerably sharp angle.

 above the vast watery desert of the Pacific.The hunters then rose. if it is necessary. we shall have an inexhaustible supply there. forming an immense forest. From this point its course was pursued through a forest of magnificent trees. and the lion in Africa. Never mind. the shadow slowly diminished. Europe. in the meantime.A handle was fixed to the first lump. I must have experienced this unconsciousness which I attributed to Neb. when we left Richmond. A horrid presentiment flashed across Pencroft s mind.

 Not a single murmur escaped from their lips. little by little. about four o clock in the evening of the 23rd of March. of its mineral. and which is in truth saltpeter. I never count my dead! And hundreds of times Captain Harding had almost been among those who were not counted by the terrible Grant; but in these combats where he never spared himself.Never cried the reporter. hoping or wishing to hope on. it reproached obliquely. if it had a greater strength than I suppose. It was evident that he had not abandoned all hope. He did not. The seaman was busy with this.In a few moments. stronger in the middle.