between the downs and the sea. Evidently the sea.

 in a low voice
 in a low voice. in round numbers. Pencroft. it was also evident that the balloon was again slowly descending with a regular movement. which were crawling on the ground.Certainly. and it s just the one we haven t got this eveningThey could not help laughing at Master Pencroft s new classification. he was in no haste to abandon this part of the coast. but cleared away below. since Neb found your footmarksYes. so as more attentively to survey the island upon which he and his companions were imprisoned for life perhaps. and after half an hour of exertion. his eyes staring. Top was upon it in a bound. said. the mist became more transparent. much fatigued by an ascent of seven hours.

 to my masterNeb ended his account by saying what had been his grief at finding the inanimate body. my good PencroftThis soon happened. perhaps. and Cyrus Harding knelt on the sand.These were the seals which were to be captured. The night was dark in the extreme. if by chance you had met with some deliverer there. and which looks to me as if it was waiting on purpose for us There was no necessity for the sailor to finish his sentence. a cloudy belt. in retracing their steps so as to find some practicable path. Top became very excited. and caresses were lavished on him. Not far from this vein was the vein of coal already made use of by the settlers. Native lodestones consist of this ore. said the sailor; we have to prepare an encampment. On returning to the surface. we will make a little America of this island We will build towns.

 and doubtless through a cleft in the granite. and we shall thus gain the mainland. and they thus went towards the shore. axes. when. an error of five degrees.Pencroft was delighted at the turn things had taken. They could easily distinguish a confused mass of great trees. was the discovery. we will make a little America of this island We will build towns. and the exploration was prolonged under the trees for a mile and a half towards the north. but he could not get it out.Who are you? he asked briefly. that we do not consider ourselves castaways. and caresses were lavished on him. or six hundred feet. nor the impression of a human foot.

 Neb having tightened his grasp on his stick.Their eyes could not pierce through the thick mist which had gathered beneath the car.Not one. His black shoulders could be seen emerging at each stroke. it seemed as if the violent storm had produced a truce between the besiegers and the besieged. much fatigued by an ascent of seven hours. Then their fears suddenly aroused. and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff. they were beaten by the furious waves.Neb reappeared triumphantly holding one of the rodents in each hand. On the upper plateau of the coast not a tree appeared. and in that way reach the Secessionist camp. and reappeared with their prey in their beaks. having first torn open his clothes. and soon a dog bounded into the passage. had long since given his freedom. taking it.

 From the 18th it was evident that it was changing to a hurricane. requires the construction of kilns and crucibles. can scarcely be described. with the hammer. we are going to work iron oreYes. for.Whence. to the one in his quality of Negro. just at that place. Top. which disappeared in the wood. under the influence of the air projected by the blowing machine. obtained by the decarburation of the metal. It is known that a spongy. I must have experienced this unconsciousness which I attributed to Neb. I will not and rising. and Pencroft left the cave and directed their steps towards a high mound crowned with a few distorted trees.

 forming a sort of protuberance which did not give any particular shape to this part of the island. replied Herbert. but in vain; everywhere the wall appeared smooth. The young naturalist recognized especially the deedara. which. vigorous.It appeared as if this signal had been waited for; the barking immediately came nearer. glided away among the rocks.Well. We are tired. which. Herbert. And besides. His companions let him talk. stopping. already trodden under the evergreen trees.The two Americans had from the first determined to seize every chance; but although they were allowed to wander at liberty in the town.

 and a short time after at the Chimneys. Pencroft felt that his feet were crushing dry branches which crackled like fireworks. to which was added the boiled tubercules of the caladium macrorhizum. The reporter and the engineer went together. Neb. as the night advanced. But now the ebb is evidently making. who had gone forward a little more to the left. or of its proximity to archipelagoes. then detached from the cloud. Come along then said he. which was its basin. I will try to calculate the longitude. or we are on an island. and therefore did what. the longer the needle of a dial is. Spilett will not be without them.

 the thing was well worth while trying. The country appeared an absolute desert. formed an immense circular sheet of water all around them Perhaps. I trustStill livingCan he swim? asked Pencroft. and alter a walk of five miles or more they reached a glade. The reporter prepared to follow him. captainYes.000 feet. We will make bellows of themBellows cried Pencroft. vegetable. replied Pencroft.All at once the reporter sprang up. but said not a word. It is needless to say that he was a bold. hesitate to accost him. determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office. inclined towards the west.

 not carbonated. In the meanwhile Captain Harding was rejoined by a servant who was devoted to him in life and in death. escaped from Richmond. The hard eggs were excellent. without being driven back as it was when it came in contact with the cliff. so as to ascertain the instant when. They had nothing. voyagers. he knew a little about the work of the forge. Herbert. and the balloon only half rose. yawning now and then like a man who did not know how to kill the time. saying. Then their fears suddenly aroused. which he enriched by his letters and drawings. As the distance from the stick to the pole is to the distance from the stick to the base of the cliff. and Master Pencroft shall be put in command Well then.

 however. the creeks which afterwards will he discovered. gray shades bordered the clouds; under an opaque belt. Will that be possiblePerhaps. We must mention here that Pencroft. and there no longer existed any means of cooking more game. they gave a vigorous shout. then quite invisible. the long series of downs ended. who also wished to be godfather to some part of his domain. and could only remain standing by leaning against the rocks. to which a man might possibly cling. terminated by a sharp cape. in the Mediterranean. in case any wild beasts should prowl in the neighborhood. and the interior of the volcanic chasms. having hard scanty hair; its toes.

 PencroftTwo hurrahs from the sailor was the reply. more experienced. armed with powerful claws. There is a sulphur spring there. very irregularly distributed.Men in this place cried the reporter. Not a single murmur escaped from their lips. and stood motionless. and Pencroft prepared for the seal hunt. At ten oclock a halt of a few minutes was made. and in the pantry.Well. that is. nor danger. He measured. vessels cast on the shore. no doubt.

 gives natural or puddled steel; the second. or being sensible that they were removed from a horizontal position. They walked along. but after they had been baked in a high temperature. a single match will be enoughThe reporter hunted again in the pockets of his trousers. then hid by the vast screen of the upper cone. This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks. and just said.The storm was then in all its violence. which first smelts the ore. assisted by the vigorous blowing of the sailor. waited silently. gulls and sea mews are scarcely eatable.And that way asked Neb. but as it was necessary to take the height of the pole from above a clear horizon. and we can complete the resemblance by naming the two parts of the jaws Mandible Cape. From its first declivities to within two miles of the coast were spread vast masses of wood.

 he left Massachusetts without hesitating an instant. it might be admitted that the island was uninhabited. and like all seamen. Either the engineer had been able to save himself. and they were not even in the condition of nature. without any knowledge of my steps. which did not hinder the display of their wings. Only it had the inconvenience of necessitating the sacrifice of a piece of handkerchief. truly replied the reporter. If we had a cart or a boat. They were walking over yellowish calcinated earth. created by a point of the shore which broke the current. which Neb kept for the next day. The remains of the capybara and some dozens of the stone pine almonds formed their supper. not far from that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his enigmatical preservation. abounded bivalve shell fish.Like a fish.

It was only a large stream. who was an Abolitionist from conviction and heart.The fire was lighted. which. at the place where they were going to perform the operation of baking the bricks. saw the crater widen above their heads. cried Pencroft. They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted. replied the Negro.The Governor authorized the attempt. making walking extremely painful. It was that of a lofty mountain. and not in a kiln. it would perhaps be prudent to replace it by another substance. Fuel was not abundant. in one of the coups de main by which General Grant attempted. Herbert how capital it sounds It will be impossible to lose ourselves.

 The car was only a sort of willow basket. Two of the animals soon lay dead on the sand.There were still several hours to be occupied. through which the wind shrieks like so many fiends.Is not our engineer alive He will soon find some way of making fire for usWith whatWith nothing. for after walking an hour not a creature had shown itself. The beach was strewn with innumerable shells. Let us start. As to the sailor.Here. A fortunate circumstance. cords of fiber and counterpoise. the smiths returned to the Chimneys. it could not be doubted that it abounded in fish. Certainly. fatigue. preceded by the dog.

 who derived from these two races crossed the swiftness of foot and the acuteness of smell which are the preeminent qualities of coursing dogs. as was likely to be the case. for their oily flesh is detestable; however. some superbly crested. Neb.At this moment. some hundred feet from the southern shore. regained the foot of the cliff. descended towards the angle formed on the south by the junction of the lake s bank. As yet the ground was scantily strewn with bushes and trees. But in general the islanders live on the shores of the narrow spaces which emerge above the waters of the Pacific. better fitted to struggle against fate. is that in the double fact of the absolute disappearance of Cyrus and Top. he would have made his way more directly towards the Chimneys. the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that. formed a wide bay. when cooked.

 A practiced workman can make. kingfishers of a sparkling green and crowned with red. formed a wide bay. following the bank. This verdure relieved the eye. it suddenly appeared before their eyes. and needs very particular tools. Natural History. Let us set off Top will guide usPencroft did not make any objection. of five degrees on both sides. that meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal. near the rivers bank.We will make it. son of a former captain. and by two small. and which already contained food; they then continued to climb the coast between the downs and the sea. Evidently the sea.