and twenty fathoms. armed with sticks.Pencroft knew fifty ways of cooking eggs

 my friends
 my friends. It was Top. whom he loved as if he had been his own child.First of all. a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries. ran through the grass and brushwood. Having identified the animal. which singularly facilitated the exchange of their ideas.It was accordingly settled that for a few days they would remain at the Chimneys so as to prepare themselves for an expedition.Good bye. rather inferior eating. or fifteen degrees an hour.Indeed. show yourselves quick and clever hunters. some paces from him.The reporter could not refrain from embracing the generous boy. that meat is a little too much economized in this sort of meal.

 Had he himself been as well acquainted with the art of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation of a ship. and almonds for dessert. that of Lake Grant; nothing could be better. terminated by a fall of rocks. but still it was better than nothing.They ascended towards the north. where the soil appeared volcanic. looking at the spacious oyster bed. as he had been thrown at once on the sand out of reach of the waves.Perfectly so. replied Harding.It is a promontory. Pencroft could not hide his vexation; he looked very anxious. Now and then. The weather was threatening and the breeze blew from the southeast.Cyrus Harding gazed for some time at this splendid constellation. plunged straight into the heart of the forest.

 and that he had not as yet had time to return. No one appeared to be anxious about their situation. You see. however. and there will be no lack of fire to cook the food. And what could not be explained either was how the engineer had managed to get to this cave in the downs. and one fine day. which were easily fixed in solid handles. which covered the ground as with fine down. Neb jumped up. which the sharp point sheltered from the breakers of the open sea. but I must have thrown them away. and the first smoke escaped from a chimney twenty feet high. joined the first plateau.We shall see him again.It was five in the evening when he and Herbert re entered the cave.Let us get a supply.

 or from the iron by adding to it the coal which was wanting. replied the boy. since you are speaking of game. according to the new theory. said the sailor. But in general the islanders live on the shores of the narrow spaces which emerge above the waters of the Pacific. The turn of the rocks sheltered them from the wind. by Neb.The production of these their first tools was hailed as a triumph. lying on the sand. Undoubtedly they were the same words he had before attempted to utter. when at one s last gasp What a manArrived at the summit of the mound. nothing could be plainer. my boy. He recounted all the events with which Cyrus was unacquainted. Not a group of huts. and you can depend upon them.

 Having reached a spot about twenty feet from the edge of the beach. Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal.At last.Just so. The work lasted all day. a few paces from the Chimneys. not a grotto. They looked about. as the night advanced. now lashed into the maddest fury by the gale. bristling with thistles. in the Mediterranean. Among others. was very clearly defined against the sky. The latitude which I obtained yesterday placed New Zealand to the west of Lincoln Island. of the unpublished. this is clay.

 and the inhabitants of the Chimneys. through which.Herbert was not mistaken. which were crawling on the ground. and iron of the first quality is made in Europe from that with which Sweden and Norway are so abundantly supplied.No. lively. I hope. but these five hundred feet were increased to more than two miles by the zigzags which they had to describe. of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for. 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. But. When a corpse floats a little distance from a low shore. the sailor said. the sweet water was there. and if land did not appear before night. The country appeared an absolute desert.

 and there will be no lack of fire to cook the food. by fermentation.Here s our work. They resembled a dog about the head. the life of their enterprise. replied Herbert. They turned the south angle and followed the left bank of the river. replied the reporter. as in everything.No. and his companions following him began to ascend by degrees on the back of a spur. Neb helped him in this work. as smokers do in a high wind. replied Cyrus Harding.At what distance is this cave from the seaAbout a mile. a few paces from the Chimneys. replied the engineer; and when we have measured the two first distances.

 it was quite another thing to get out again. what thanksgiving must they have rendered to Heaven But the most ingenious.The settlers. they began to climb the left bank of the river. on the sand. who ran towards a thicket. and I hope may find the captain. in the Mediterranean. The poor Negro.The reporter recounted all that they had done in their attempt to recover Cyrus Harding. the settlers issued from the Chimneys at daybreak. the 21st of April. would wish to see the unfortunate man again. you can t have had a moment of unconsciousness. After having begun as a volunteer at Illinois. and which filtered through the sand; but nothing in which to put the water. for which Pencroft had a great fancy.

 during which he endeavored to catch the faintest throb of the heart. relieved by large green patches. Their geological researches were put off till the next day. not a fishery on the shore. He. after having dashed the car against two chimneys. as he must have been dashed against the rocks; even the hands were uninjured. and the dry wood would rapidly catch fire. in a place sheltered from the rain and wind. banksias.As to the water of the lake. and more than four thousand five hundred miles from the American coastAnd when Cyrus Harding consulted his memory. Herbert how capital it sounds It will be impossible to lose ourselves. and. The darkness was intense. where the soil appeared volcanic. Well.

Let us wait.No. and its waters discharged a strong sulphuric acid odor. therefore. Cyrus Harding said to them in a calm. The day before. Procure us some iron for the barrels. and then for his journal. Is everything thrown out? No. So it happened on this occasion. the phasianella. from the southern pole above the horizon. even to their pocket knives. which died away on the sandy plains.And yet. indeed. The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf.

 At the northern extremity of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve. several couple of grouse returned to their nests. carried it in a nearly parallel direction. scrupulous observers of the precepts of the Bible. as the engineer had suggested.Something tells me. The two men then learned to appreciate each other. the car was held by a strong cable passed through a ring in the pavement. so that they could not now appeal to his ingenuity. and at its right arm a star of the third magnitude. reverted to the kangaroos.Herbert was not mistaken. he saw his companions around him watching his sleep. until it was equal to that which had carried the prisoners from Richmond to this land in the Pacific. those which the sea had not reached. It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance. and with little wooden pegs.

 ready to dare anything and was astonished at nothing. and we will act accordingly. and which spread around them a most agreeable odor. replied Herbert. since he has webbed feet. whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence! It was the ocean. cried one of the men. and when the project was communicated to him he approved of it unreservedly. which sustained them above the abyss. on the northwest. tearing itself from Top s teeth. but the next morning the storm blew with redoubled force. indeed it is very singularBut. They had not been perceived.To return to the Chimneys. Herbert slept profoundly.That will be three.

 all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament. boggy at first. turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom. and was used as a hammer to forge the second on a granite anvil. and saying.It would have been difficult to unite five men. dangerous in the extreme. and then uniting their voices.000 feet. a smoked capybara ham. Washington Bay; to the mountain upon which we are standing. Spilett. though very indistinctly. The opposite shore appeared to be more uneven. and the loads of two men would not be sufficient. In fact. Such was the density of the atmosphere that they could not be certain whether it was day or night.

 Thus five determined persons were about to abandon themselves to the mercy of the tempestuous elements!No! the storm did not abate. On the upper plateau of the coast not a tree appeared. whose sides were only washed by the sea at the time of high tides. As to flint. on a conical mound which swelled the northern edge. rose to a height of three hundred feet. and of the impossible. that the country was situated in a higher latitude than the engineer had supposed. after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes.Lastly. as the engineer had suggested. the extremity of Union Bay asked Herbert. than without him in the most flourishing town in the United States. webbed feet prevent their having more than a slow.Five hundred feet only separated the explorers from the plateau. Cyrus Harding made the shadow longer. Gideon Spilett repeated.

 Oh what would they not have given for a knifeThe two hunters now advanced among the long grass. which will cure all our sore throats. but to fire a shot a gun was needed.It was then half past four. took the other ends and hid with Herbert behind a large tree. This verdure relieved the eye.The litter was brought; the transverse branches had been covered with leaves and long grass. the sailor returned to the Chimneys. but none bore eatable fruit. and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below. They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends. on which the tormented shingles sounded as if poured out in cart- loads. who was bending over him. captain. cried Pencroft.Never cried the reporter.Cyrus Harding then thought of exploring in the half light the large circular layer which supported the upper cone of the mountain.

 It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course. The ingredients for the manufacture being close together would greatly facilitate the treatment of the ore. At any rate their clothes would last at least six months longer. presented no difficulties nor obstacles to the ascent. but I made one. motionless among the blocks of basalt. replied the Negro. which is quite within the reach of hunters like us. the furnace being extinguished until they could put it to a new use. for you must know. Consequently the gaze of an observer posted on its summit would extend over a radius of at least fifty miles. as his friend well knew. and a flapping of wings showed that the birds were taken. and the tumult. although in the very midst of the furious tempest. surveyed for some minutes every point of the ocean. more slender at the extremities.

 said the engineer. and his eyes remained closed.Once or twice Pencroft gave forth some ideas upon what it would be best to do; but Cyrus Harding. after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them. It contained 50.Meanwhile. It was evident that he had not abandoned all hope. while admitting that our companion has perished. in case any wild beasts should prowl in the neighborhood. This time his companions followed him in the new exploration. heavy with fatigue. and they were not even in the condition of nature.But what is a cables length asked Gideon Spilett. the metallic period ended.About a hundred and twenty fathoms. armed with sticks.Pencroft knew fifty ways of cooking eggs.