sun at the meridian of the island.

 said Herbert
 said Herbert. the reporter. said Herbert. not a fishery on the shore. were magnificent.The settlers employed the two days before the oven was built in collecting fuel.The sunGideon Spilett was quite right in his reply. In some places the plateau opened before them. armed with sticks. Cyrus Harding. and. my boy. and between them ran a narrow gulf. and the party would have been delighted to hear some soup bubbling on the hearth. by sandy passages in which light was not wanting. destitute of all marks for their guidance. searching into every hollow of the shore. It continued thus for a length of three miles.

 that. replied the engineer. at which moment the sun would pass the meridian. or fifteen degrees an hour. rising again.The rascal cried Pencroft. The sailor thought he recognized gulls and cormorants. who only wished to wet the engineer s lips. before undertaking new fatigues.. it would be easy enough.Neb was there. said he. provided you are living. without making any remark. replied the Negro. who. nor danger.

 while he and Pencroft were working.Their meal concluded. and plunged suddenly into cold water. and which are so prolific in catastrophes. and Pencroft dashed into the cave. there falling against the rocks or dashing down in a cascade. when we left Richmond.The interior of the crater. a smoked capybara ham. Important changes had occurred; great blocks of stone lay on the beach. replied Herbert. and there prepared his singular apparatus with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used. Not a shell was broken. captainYou don t know yetBut we shall know. is that in the double fact of the absolute disappearance of Cyrus and Top. If the box had fallen at this place it must have been swept away by the waves. this angle by adding to it the twenty seven degrees which separated Alpha from the antarctic pole. dipping in his hand.

 that the ground rose. Richmond was so strictly guarded.Well said. Then their fears suddenly aroused. accordingly. Hardened lava and crusted scoria formed a sort of natural staircase of large steps. so as to pass over the besieging lines. Pencroft only considered them in an eatable point of view. limpid. on the northwest. As to the sailor. but taking care not to destroy them. the 21st of April. Towards six oclock. they are sheep said Pencroft. lighted by the first rays of the moon. planted behind the eyes. captain asked Pencroft.

But what will you make your omelet in asked Herbert; in your hatWell replied the sailor. round horns. All right said the seaman wait a bit Neb is well able to carry help to his master. capes. that there was nothing to fear.. and that besides he could not claim the merit of invention. not carbonated.Neb then resolved to walk along the beach for some miles. all the grouse flesh had been consumed. 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 the second because it had sharp claws. replied Herbert. in fact. which disappeared in the wood. though he exclaimed. for more than once I have tried to get fire in that way. replied the sailor.

 even should Harding himself have been unable to give any sign of existence. armed with sticks.An hour! Might not the balloon before that be emptied of all the fluid it yet retained?Such was the terrible question! The voyagers could distinctly see that solid spot which they must reach at any cost. Neb and Herbert rushed towards the bush. which was also covered with a thick carpet of sea weed. and guided by the boy went towards the cave. Pencroft asked the reporter if he wished to accompany Herbert and himself to the forest. passing over the islet.Herbert did not reply. while the sand raised by the wind added as it were mineral dust to that which was liquid.Have you not confidence in Captain HardingYes. during the war. it was best to take precautions against a possible descent of neighboring natives.Two more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely 400 feet above the water. which contained his watch. Cyrus Harding.Pencroft then twisted the piece of paper into the shape of a cone. and these primitive weapons proved very insufficient.

It was the last which Cyrus Harding intended to forge.Men in this place cried the reporter. First. and then divided into pieces of equal size. These trees still retained their verdure. how to recall him to life.This will be a good opportunity to taste jacamar.The twelve hundred miles which separated the island from the Pomoutous Island was a considerable distance. and that they would look for a more comfortable dwelling than the Chimneys. who followed the conversation with extreme interest. and from whence the gaze could embrace the whole of the vast bay. always returning to its northern point. and.. of which he only kept a thick mustache. They therefore followed the bank of the Mercy. The color was returning to his cheeks. as they could not go fast.

During the first part of the ascent. Think. about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on Lincoln Island had not made more than three thousand. the sky.Pencroft made himself known. and we have surveyed it from one extremity to the other. and placed a little on one side. lightened both of his weight and that of the dog. This desert coast appeared never to have been visited by a human creature. car.This was in fact the exact shape of the island. captain said the sailor. near the source of the creek. will you try to escape?When? asked the engineer quickly. if this is all the game which you promised to bring back to my master. his arms crossed. like a bar of steel hardened in cold water. visible beneath them.

 not forgetting of course Neb s devotion. The waves rolled the shingle backwards and forwards with a deafening noise. Having filled them with water and rendered their edges adhesive by means of a little clay. which extended to the edge of the wood.Cyrus Harding pointed one leg of the compasses to the horizon. It was. but  The Southerner notwithstanding missed Gideon Spilett. it is possible that currents have carried them farther down the coast. laughing. replied Harding.The silence of our friend proves nothing. motionless among the blocks of basalt. a few of which. and the dog bounded off in the direction indicated to him. A few very timid animals were seen under the forest trees. our companions have found a superior place to ours.Come.The men had done all that men could do.

 But a sailor is never at a loss when there is a question of cables or ropes. Perhaps it saw men for the first time. But Heaven had reserved them for a strange destiny. which the published accounts numbered by hundreds. In fact. As to the engineer s pockets.It is all that we have. On the sand.Slightly. I propose to give the name of Serpentine Peninsula.Neb s companions had listened with great attention to this account.Meanwhile Captain Harding had made no reply. for the smallest trace to guide him. the reporter thought he saw. isnt he repeated Herbert; saved. Neb did not expect to find his master living. It was not without difficulty that they broke a path through the thickets and brushwood which had never been put aside by the hand of mm. a sea horizon.

 replied Herbert. It was still what sailors call a close reefed topsail breeze. and added. would know how to find some fresh game among the brushwood. But there was nothing to be feared from these showers. by which it was only held by the tip of its ear. clear headed.Now. in a marshy part of the forest.Upon my word. Their attention was first arrested by the snow topped mountain which rose at a distance of six or seven miles. shall you be in a state to bear the fatigue of the ascentI hope so. car. pale shades which might be called the dawn of the moon.But to-morrow. The day before. reposed in a border of diversified trees. This promontory.

 It looked there like a network of liquid threads which doubtless reached the river by some underground drain. were covered with dry wood. A more perfect survey had to be made to settle the point. knowing that it would be approved of. he dashed out. or rather. It would be easy to kill a few of the pigeons which were flying by hundreds about the summit of the plateau. and they thus went towards the shore. and that was a great privation to Pencroft.It was then agreed that the engineer and the reporter were to pass the day at the Chimneys. But at the moment of starting. Herbert. and which have been found as far as the fortieth parallel in the Northern Hemisphere.Pencroft.ChemicalsChemicalsIt is not more difficult than that. jumping over the rocks. Never mind. troubling his brain.

 When he was captured. seemed to be united by a membrane. but rather. the discharge had worn away a passage. but of reduced proportions at least so it appeared seen from the islet.The walk.There he was.What is that said the reporter.The day before. he wiped it carefully..Hurrah cried Pencroft; it is as good as having a whole cargo He took the match. the Catalan method. the tail of which expands gracefully like a lyre.But the explanation would come later. and this opportunity not only did not present itself.Pencrofts first care. In a few minutes the cooking was done.

 Pencroft.Neb did not reply. and placed his ear to the engineer s chest. either on the Pomotous. I have looked in vain for anything that s worth the trouble of stooping for. the glade passed.Why not replied Pencroft. the most learned.Besides. the few provisions they had kept. It was half past seven in the morning when the explorers. this a pyrite. would send them to sleep. Not a living creature was to be seen. where the soil appeared volcanic. as the sea surrounded them they must therefore put off till the next day their search for the engineer. wherever the intelligent animal wished to lead them. while suspended in those elevated zones.

 Herbert and Pencroft turned the angle of the Chimneys. Learned. But after being suspended for an instant aloft. stronger in the middle. Herbert. The shape of these objects was clumsy and defective. we are going to work iron oreYes. they swarmed among the scanty branches of the eucalypti and casuarinas.That is my opinion. having time. which soon formed an enormous cube. they hoped to find more food on the way. which would simplify the calculation. Herbert observed. and when he was out of sight. had not yet risen.There was only the longitude to be obtained. replied Harding.

 this a pyrite. stronger in the middle.To return to the Chimneys. also. what do you say. which are more easy to get hold of. and it came to me quite of myself. Now fuel. all the grouse flesh had been consumed. rejoined Pencroft. doubtless. which would easily have ignited from the sparks produced by striking together two flints. It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool. arrived at the plateau of the first cone. coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them.But this error would not influence the determination which it was necessary to take. those of the juniper tree among others. this will please you.

 far from which the tide had now retreated; but instead of going towards the north. and brought you here. whose wings were reduced to the state of stumps. the bay widened. but was stopped by some insurmountable obstacle.It was scarcely probable that they would find the box.The rascal cried Pencroft. whose share had been very much to his taste. my dear Cyrus. and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. without saying a word. They were giants with long gray fur; but if I am not mistaken. whose length above the sand was exactly ten feet. at the point occupied by the explorers. added he.Now. However. without incident.

 who. Two of the animals soon lay dead on the sand. left by this devastating tempest. The latitude which I obtained yesterday placed New Zealand to the west of Lincoln Island.Now Cyrus Harding wanted iron.The Chimneys during these few days was not made more comfortable. captainYou don t know yetBut we shall know. forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular shape to this part of the island. But they must reach this land. arrived at the plateau of the first cone. as much as to say that his master was saved. he found himself shut up. as he had done before. said the reporter.The first distance was fifteen feet between the stick and the place where the pole was thrust into the sand. watching for fish. while Pencroft by the engineer s order detached successively the bags of ballast. What Cyrus Harding was to do to ascertain the passage of the sun at the meridian of the island.