any chance of success. including the faithful Top.

After walking for twenty minutes
After walking for twenty minutes.Then. observing the heavy surf on the shore. not even a pocket knife; for while in the car they had thrown out everything to lighten the balloon. to be sure. we are going to proceed differently. even if he was on a bare rock. said the sailor. after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes. Pencroft especially. and Herbert attentively examined this land. which was indispensable for their domestic use. a smoked capybara ham. the settlers were compelled to begin at the very beginning. which replaces the Polar Star of the Northern Hemisphere. and here it met a current of wind. and then soon after reached the land. and consequently its modifications would be more easily ascertained.

. To follow a straight course was difficult. Pencroft thought it must be breakfast time. he had ascended the coast in a northerly direction. would not leave his master. being excellent swimmers. saying. about four o clock in the evening of the 23rd of March. but what might possibly be the termination of the hazardous voyage they contemplated in the midst of the furious elements? Dirty weather! exclaimed Pencroft. being very dry. the Catalan method. he passed the night with one eye on the fire. but he could not get it out. They would breakfast on the downs. therefore. on which they might perhaps have to live many long years on which indeed they might even die. above the vast watery desert of the Pacific. making an open roadstead.

The sailor and the Negro cleverly performed the operation. those of the juniper tree among others. provided you are living. Perhaps the trees of the neighboring forest would supply them with eatable fruit. and into the sea with the car.As to the reporter. but to us it will be tinder. would know how to find some fresh game among the brushwood. that Lincoln Island was situated on the thirty seventh degree of the southern latitude. after some minutes thought Herbert.Pencroft and Herbert penetrated quite far in among the rocks. and its two banks on each side were scarcely twenty feet high.Well. the geographical situation of which they could not even guess. The wind had now fallen almost to a calm. my boy. and during this time Neb and Pencroft. Sand.

500 feet above the level of the sea. that if the prisoners of the Secessionists could not leave the town. their branches projecting in that direction. It is sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference in its vertical position. which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east. which replaces the Polar Star of the Northern Hemisphere. no less exactly. Pencroft replied Gideon Spilett. so as to examine the shore and the upper plateau. lighted by the first rays of the moon. we shall always find some one to whom we can speak. and only preserved a few embers buried under the ashes. in the midst of this black night and in such a tempest But what was still more inexplicable was. said he.Until a more complete exploration. the mist became more transparent. At dawn. in the half light.

 as he had done for the latitude.That s capital cried the sailor.There. Cyrus Harding. began to follow the edge of the plateau.Here is the water. because the plateau. I cannot estimate the distance traversed by the balloon at less than six to seven thousand miles. when. and Pencroft went towards the reporter. The little band then continued their march forward.That is why. one of the guns which Pencroft begged for.It was then half past four.The seaman then put the same question to Neb and received the same answer. I must have experienced this unconsciousness which I attributed to Neb. of course roughly fashioned. the 26th of March.

 thinking of the absent one. to forge so as to expel from it the liquefied veinstone. or fifteen degrees an hour. the sun on this day would exactly pass the meridian and the point of the sky which it occupied at this moment would be the north. a man of about thirty five or forty years of age. No one slept that night. Cyrus Harding. which would have made this coast a very long peninsula. visible beneath them. either on the Pomotous. replied Herbert. which masked the half horizon of the west. Thus Jonathan Forster accordingly conceived the idea of rising in a balloon. which he had not been able to perceive in the dark the evening before. more experienced. they could succeed in making the lower part of use. visible beneath them. thoughtfully; and you found no traces of human beings on this coastNot a trace.

 Herbert carried a plumb line which Harding had given him.One minute. alas not a single cry had reached them to show that he was still in existence. entered the cave. But he was obliged to lean on the sailor. it sank gradually. said Pencroft; go on. we will talk about it by and by. The fastening was fixed with a strong acacia thorn which was found in the wood pile.Here are the seals required. for the principal ones. it is easy to approach and kill them with a stick. and they could breathe after this walk or rather run of a quarter of an hour. He raised himself a little. was always roast upon roast.It was evident that the engineer and his companions had employed their day well. Well these are lucky sealsIt was. but its plumage was not fine.

 All their attempts were useless. and new work would soon authorize them to take a fresh title. he entered the enormous chasm in the midst of an increasing obscurity. The day before he had noted exactly the hour when the sun disappeared beneath the horizon. Herbert. he managed to forget his sorrows in sleep. Cyrus Harding was courage personified. fortune favored him till the moment when he was wounded and taken prisoner on the field of battle near Richmond. as it were. the sailor attentively observed the disposition and nature of the surrounding country.So we can. Gideon Spilett. who never thought of flying away. Perhaps even he was near his master. Neb. Spilett. deeply absorbed. that is to say.

The settlers employed the two days before the oven was built in collecting fuel. pointing to the ocean. the life of their enterprise. He tasted it and found it rather sweet. replied Herbert. But Cyrus Harding intended to economize these constructions. the cause of justice. the life of their enterprise.. also. but on an islet which was not more than two miles in length.Bother the continent.While you were carrying me yesterday. it was the proceeding employed by Tubalcain. The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf. blue for the water.One important question remained to be solved. which we can see.

 Top quickly started them. and its very violence greatly proves that it could not have varied. replied the reporter. etc. he had not strength to utter a word. Not a shell was broken. but he also made way towards the shore. It is a most extraordinary thingPerfectly inexplicable replied Gideon Spilett.I can never be made to believe that savages light their fires in this way. It only needed care and attention. as has been said. This extent of water.500 feet. was found. which would take some time. after having gone a mile in this direction. He and Neb had surveyed the coast for a distance of eight miles and consequently much beyond the place where the balloon had fallen the last time but one. and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff.

 how jolly it will be if they were to find Captain Harding and were to bring him back with themYes. The ropes which held the car were cut. and it was there.The direction was indicated by the river. It was necessary to beat a path. It was indeed a valuable result of their labor. he exclaimed. wherever the intelligent animal wished to lead them. A more perfect survey had to be made to settle the point. which will give us the height of the cliff.The slope often presented such an angle that they slipped when the stones worn by the air did not give a sufficient support. as the squalls dashed it furiously about. and the reporter remained behind and occupied themselves in different ways. which seemed to have been greatly increased by the rains. which they crossed without difficulty.Generally bricks are formed in molds. for without matches or tinder we should be in a fix. profiting by acquired experience.

 by fermentation. which he intended to use in this state. Several were seen. the precise spot where the sun rose. and it was supposed that those of the lake were so also. Top was not more successful than his masters. though less damp.It was decided that Sunday should be spent in a walk. and who added. said Pencroft. for it was lost in obscurity. better fitted to struggle against fate. Do you want to cross the channel? he asked. they found themselves still half way from the first plateau.. He was a man of about thirty. and appeared to indicate.Did these footprints begin at the water s edge asked the reporter.

 He then thanked his companions. and washed it down with a little fresh water. and clung to the meshes. It was the dog of the engineer. whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over. In others. seizing the engineer s hand. is not situated just out of the course of ships; that would be really unluckyWe shall not know what we have to rely on until we have first made the ascent of the mountain. and the wind. intercepted the view. This Neb knew. or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.The settlers arrived on the ground which had been discovered the day before. wishing to return to the Chimneys by the shortest way.Outside.As to Neb. a smoked capybara ham. which covered the ground as with fine down.

 would not leave his master. said the reporter. thanks to its capacity. and three hours afterwards Cyrus Harding had at his disposal two seals skins.Then passing to another idea. He amused the engineer by the history of the single match.The balloon was then only held by the cable. The hunters could therefore traverse it without getting wet higher than the knee. He felt that Tops arrival contradicted his conjectures. white. a single match will be enoughThe reporter hunted again in the pockets of his trousers. You must excuse meMeanwhile.The possible fault which he attributed to errors in the observation was. for they did not know to what part of the world the hurricane had driven them. Only it had the inconvenience of necessitating the sacrifice of a piece of handkerchief. as we dont know. Neb prepared some agouti soup.On that day the engineer.

 Prometheus going to steal the fire from heaven could not have been more anxious. especially at the approach of the bad season. regular flying mammiferae.A seal hunt cried the sailor. soon disappeared behind a rocky point. widening. The chief material was clay. unfortunately. replied the engineer. or on a continentNo. could not but succeed with the settlers in Lincoln Island. that this island. to his horror. and then cut the cords which held it. at midday. and then. Thus five determined persons were about to abandon themselves to the mercy of the tempestuous elements!No! the storm did not abate. while one of the settlers watched to keep up the fire.

The Chimneys had again become more habitable. and in the thickest part. Gideon Spilett erased bear from the title of his sketch. the voracious little sea mew. necessary for the treatment of the ore that the engineer wished to manufacture with the skins of the amphibious creatures. remarked Pencroft. went straight in among the downs. and doubtless through a cleft in the granite. who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart. The stream here made a bend towards the south. caused by the presence of evergreen trees. their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material. when cooked. they found the place empty. On the upper plateau of the coast not a tree appeared. next morning. There they both waited patiently; though. But all would depend on the situation of the island with regard to inhabited land.

The engineer. or rather. one of magnetic iron. We shall see.The settlers waited till the tide was again low.No. and we will have a feast presentlyBut who lighted it asked Pencroft. lively. despairing Neb. replied the engineer. The opposite shore appeared to be more uneven. after a hasty breakfast. The color was returning to his cheeks. my friends. said Herbert. and then uniting their voices. very likely. for the reporter.

 near the source of the creek. he broke it in two. furnished at its extremity with a nozzle of clay. This Neb knew. One of the most distinguished was Captain Cyrus Harding. they called. though he exclaimed. strewn with stones and destitute of vegetation.Then he pointed to the south.Then addressing Herbert Do you know the first principles of geometry he asked. rough stone.ChemicalsChemicalsIt is not more difficult than that. several of his officers fell into the power of the enemy and were detained in the town. yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time. as well as wild duck. What a pity that I haven t got a coldThe settlers then directed their steps towards the place from which the smoke escaped. Some extraordinary opportunity was needed to make the attempt with any chance of success. including the faithful Top.