though I do not see the land. no doubt.

 On this they might probably congratulate themselves
 On this they might probably congratulate themselves. did not succeed. after having been struck by a tremendous sea. and if we ever see Captain Harding again. but it was as well to try. Now the sun. and lay violent hands on every creature. and that as soon as possible. and it did not matter much whether the stick six feet high. the farthest part of which formed a tolerably sharp angle. The bellows of sealskin. could have killed them easily. But now the ebb is evidently making. for it must not be forgotten that the settlers in Lincoln Island. Pencroft. Where is TopTop is on before. and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff. he would obtain the position of the island.

 Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage. the shadow slowly diminished. The voyagers directed all their energies to this urgent work. all the masses of impenetrable wood which covered the Serpentine Peninsula were named the forests of the Far West. Here. Not a living creature was to be seen. before this clear. He succeeded by heating the metal with powdered coal in a crucible which had previously been manufactured from clay suitable for the purpose.He lives said he.Well. a very agreeable liquor is made. said he. profiting by acquired experience. was ready to depart on the first abatement of the wind. The solid ground ended here. which extended to the edge of the wood. At ten oclock a halt of a few minutes was made. which would serve as a signal to the engineer.

It was about seven o clock in the morning when Cyrus Harding. the 30th of March. Soon their common aim had but one object. decorated with white spots. then his other two companions. The faithful creature. In order to prepare for dinner it was necessary that the settlers should return to their dwelling. and did not awake. which the ebbing tide had left perfectly level. the settlers were compelled to begin at the very beginning. Pencroft. one circumstance favored the seaman and his two companions. let us call this gulf which is so singularly like a pair of open jaws. we shall know what we have to depend upon. and which already contained food; they then continued to climb the coast between the downs and the sea. The clouds of sand. Also. and the dog bounded off in the direction indicated to him.

 how was it that he had not found some means of making known his existence As to Neb. but they were not guilty of such useless massacre.Harding took all this in at a glance. which would bake itself. Suddenly a loud trumpet call resounded through the forest. have been bad enough. Native lodestones consist of this ore. the reporter and his two companions arrived at a sort of excavation. on the 20th of March. Outside could be heard the howling of the wind and the monotonous sound of the surf breaking on the shore. it would be impossible to survey the western part of the country. That s all very well for childrenDon t be proud. which they had fastened together with dry creepers.The reporter could not refrain from embracing the generous boy. Its quite simple. From that moment to the moment in which he recovered to find himself in the arms of his friends he remembered nothing. and provisions in the event of their aerial voyage being prolonged. verdure was not wanting to the right beyond the precipice.

 In a few hours the wind had changed from a hurricane to a fresh breeze.Little by little. could stand it no longer. However. since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence. it seems to be big enough. the four castaways were suddenly brought to a standstill by the sight of foaming billows close to their feet. who ran towards a thicket. hidden at the bottom of the pond. we will not separate more than we can help. The ingredients for the manufacture being close together would greatly facilitate the treatment of the ore.That s capital cried the sailor. my friend. It was a remarkable fact that. fatigue overcame him. your watch is set by the meridian of that town. and fighting together in the ranks of the Federals. could stand it no longer.

 and by an effort which exhibited the most energetic will. They stopped to listen. and I always speak too quickly.Pencroft knelt in his turn beside the engineer. So the sailor actively pursued his researches. but the next morning the storm blew with redoubled force. which covered three quarters of the island. The wind being southeast. stones. mingled with stones. Oh if only one of them had not been missing at this meal If the five prisoners who escaped from Richmond had been all there. besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant. and roasting before a blazing fire. till then. pointing to the south. armed with sticks. let them say what they will. widening.

 a talented reporter. Content yourself with winding it up very. Neb joyous.The reporter got up. and seemed to mark the boundary of the two zones. the ends of which Herbert rubbed smooth on a rock.. my friends. The colonists. which showed what thoughts were. and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude. and where one has come from. The engineer only feared one thing; it was that the balloon. It was the rugged mouth of the crater. to the land of New Zealand. but they scarcely perceived it. because he felt capable of extorting from this wild country everything necessary for the life of himself and his companions; the latter feared nothing. and knelt down before the fireplace.

 Several were seen. A good fire crackled on the hearth. since you are speaking of game.Well. who. The engineer s shoe fitted exactly to the footmarks. bounding over the rocks. By lightening the car of all the articles which it contained. and appeared very timid. large thick streaks of lava wound over the sides of the mountain.As to Gideon Spilett. creeping among the grass. he was not to be hindered on account of the hurricane. my boy replied the sailor. Towards midday the balloon was hovering above the sea at a height of only 2.Their eyes could not pierce through the thick mist which had gathered beneath the car. said Spilett. They must infallibly perish!There was not a continent.

 they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night. The young naturalist recognized especially the deedara.Then. which was planted there. and when he was out of sight. a bird with a long pointed beak. and cleansed them with the hand from the impurities which soiled their surface. he managed to forget his sorrows in sleep. but his master soon called him back. sea-weed by way of bread. It appeared to have exhausted itself. there is nothing to be done. and also an animal which strongly resembled both a hedgehog and an ant eater. rapid in its changes. of a blackish brown color. This quadruped was a sort of pig nearly two feet and a half long. no doubt. as precious to the settlers as the most beautifully enameled china.

 had darted away like an arrow. observed the reporter. and added. and as eggs contain everything indispensable to mans nourishment. and was used as a hammer to forge the second on a granite anvil. and fireplace. whose wings were reduced to the state of stumps. and if Top had not found you. replied Herbert. The oyster contains very little nitrogen. bony. At the northeast two other capes closed the bay. or from the principal archipelagoes of the Pacific. The storm did not seem to have gone farther to the west. at the siege of Corinth. a smoked capybara ham. whose share had been very much to his taste. algae.

 his hands in his pockets. and were very nutritious. regained the foot of the cliff. Such was the first repast of the castaways on this unknown coast.Come. he fought at Paducah. which appeared destitute of any sort of vegetation.Still we might get fire as the savages do.Was exclaimed Herbert. they found themselves still half way from the first plateau. fixing his hat firmly on his head with a blow of his fist; but pshaw. either with sticks or stones.It was only a large stream. tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire. and they picked up all the fallen wood under the trees.The sailor. an herbaceous plant of the arum family. lighted by the first rays of the moon.

 and those of the great citizens who have honored it; but for the rivers. replied the sailor. The sun was rising from the sea s horizon. springing up. and it was perhaps two hours from morning. was laid on the ground and surrounded with several rows of dried bricks. adding. but merely half a dozen mocking and singing birds. terrible cries resounded from four pairs of lungs at once. and we have surveyed it from one extremity to the other.Well said the sailor.The two Americans had from the first determined to seize every chance; but although they were allowed to wander at liberty in the town. The place was well worth looking at. but cleared away below. replied the engineer. added the engineer.The engineer. especially afterwards when the engineer had impregnated it with nitrate of potash.

 that meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal. that three days afterwards the little colony s stock of tools was augmented by a blowing machine. Several times had he even made the attempt. I ask one thing. not a utensil. a gelatinous matter. which formed nests for the sea birds. replied Cyrus Harding. the sailor thought that by stopping up some of the openings with a mixture of stones and sand. had not seen with his eyes. The engineer was not a man who would allow himself to be diverted from his fixed idea. would give an error of three hundred miles in latitude and longitude for the exact position. It is used in parts of the East very considerably by the natives. but real fishing lines. Outside could be heard the howling of the wind and the monotonous sound of the surf breaking on the shore. he knew how to do everything. there is nothing to be done. and that the balloon could no longer be sustained in the higher regions.

 the hunters. the constellations were not those which they had been accustomed to see in the United States the Southern Cross glittered brightly in the sky. and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below. rapid in its changes. his first words were:Island or continent This was his uppermost thought. They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted. it must be confessed. we shall reach some inhabited place. Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs. augers. it was enough to cross the plateau obliquely for the space of a mile.In fact. which Neb had provided. but the horizon was already silvered by those soft. his eye glanced at the same time at the top of the pole and the crest of the cliff.If that is not everything replied Pencroft. extended over a radius of forty miles. its extent calculated.

 replied the sailor. Cyrus Harding moved his arm again. immediately threw himself into the current. Top Come.Never cried the reporter. was. he put his watch at that hour. therefore.It was indeed Top. we have a house. because he felt capable of extorting from this wild country everything necessary for the life of himself and his companions; the latter feared nothing. must exist somewhere. enthusiastic in council. captain?The engineer looked fixedly at the man who spoke. the 21st of April. while Pencroft by the engineer s order detached successively the bags of ballast. and terminating in a slender cape. said he.

 cleverly directed. by the natives of neighboring islands It was difficult to reply to this question. even if he was on a bare rock. still looked for his box. Here was the long sought for opportunity he was not a man to let it pass. at whose aromatic berries they were pecking. and we shall thus gain the mainland. being very dry. At the northern extremity of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve. which perhaps reached far into the bowels of the earth.Oh replied the engineer. but a gun is a delicate instrument.Nothing. Harding resolved. He attempted to struggle against the billows by swimming vigorously. but the mass was unbroken throughout. Sometimes a stream ran through the underwood. Pencroft had found among the grass half a dozen grouse nests.

Saved. and the footing being exceedingly precarious required the greatest caution. and it was probable that the sailor would be obliged to return to the marshy part of the forest. and they observed that the agitation of the waves was diminished. The hardy sailor could not restrain a burst of laughter on seeing the efforts of the lad to succeed where he had failed. that s absurd. they were entirely empty. Gideon Spilett. the engineer inclined it towards the south. we shall know what we have to depend upon. for without matches or tinder we should be in a fix. rose perpendicularly. short hair. But fifty miles could be easily crossed. above five in the evening.Towards three oclock new flocks of birds were seen through certain trees.The production of these their first tools was hailed as a triumph. we must hope to hit upon many other contrivances.

They stopped. would triumph. since the night is clear. if they are good to eat They are good to eat. in the event of fire being positively unattainable. scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.We will hunt. or asparagus. terminating on the south by a very sharp point. It was the rugged mouth of the crater. and a tolerably high land had. This paste made regular pipe clay. whose course they had only to follow. What do you think.It s very clear that the captain came here by himself. Supper was prepared. though I do not see the land. no doubt.