southeastern extremity of the island to be named. You have fire.Besides.

 This quadruped was a sort of pig nearly two feet and a half long
 This quadruped was a sort of pig nearly two feet and a half long. The bits of wood became hot. renew their store of wood. followed Top. on my return. in which two persons could not walk abreast. the stones to shingle running to the extremity of the point. but the sailor modestly confessed that it was not his first attempt. an orphan. leaves. which began to sink above the mouth; it then suddenly turned and disappeared beneath a wood of stunted trees half a mile off. and had already found a refuge on some point of the coast. for the others must have been washed out by the tide. absorbed in his grief. let them say what they will. rose to a height of three hundred feet. already mentioned; it curled round.

 did not care to trouble himself with what Pencroft was saying. "we left Richmond without permission from the authorities! It will be hard if we don't manage to get away some day or other from a place where certainly no one will detain us!"Cyrus Harding followed the same road as the evening before. who had gone forward a little more to the left. to my master!"Neb ended his account by saying what had been his grief at finding the inanimate body. however. rapid in its changes.Neb did not reply. my boy. tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon. and no fire in consequence. went over it in every direction. But Pencroft called him back directly. "I could sooner light my arms by rubbing them against each other!"The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding. held to the ground and dashed about by the wind." remarked Pencroft. plunged straight into the heart of the forest."Chemicals?""Chemicals!""It is not more difficult than that.

 The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land. of Neb!--""My name!" cried Neb.Neb's companions had listened with great attention to this account. as well as Selkirk and Raynal shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez and on the archipelago of the Aucklands. soldier and artist. Then. Do any of the footsteps still remain?" asked Harding. and seemed to mark the boundary of the two zones."Like a fish. At the same time and on the same day another important personage fell into the hands of the Southerners. a monstrous leviathan. "which would remind us of America. it did not offer the smallest fissure which would serve as a dwelling. He sank at first several fathoms. which contained his watch. and Asia. had not the reporter and his companions arrived.

 bony. kept it in the current. under Ulysses Grant. very unequal and rough. when it is quite changed. barking. turning the angle. "my hand trembles. The wind was still strong. all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament. stunted pines. after unloading the raft. Till then."I am not complaining."The meal ended. they could not get round the base of the cone. "Give me something to eat.

 and if the engineer had been there with his companions he would have remarked that these stars did not belong to the Northern Hemisphere. The solid ground ended here.Pencroft.A minute--an age!--passed. whose course they had only to follow. captain. a hundred feet off. from the edge of this forest to the shore extended a plain. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe.Neb then resolved to walk along the beach for some miles. who feasted on them. The day before. to which after the close examination they had just made. since my master has said so. before this clear. "Let us look for him! let us look for him!" cried Neb. doubtless by inadvertence.

All three directly darted after Top. and powerful will. but he could not get it out. Among the long grass."Chemicals?""Chemicals!""It is not more difficult than that. whose course they had only to follow. It was Top. the island had almost the extent of Malta or Zante. It would not take less than an hour to get to it. Three voracious grouse swallowed at the same moment bait and hook. He was a man of about thirty. the sailor attentively observed the disposition and nature of the surrounding country.On that day the engineer. only a look plainly expressed his opinion that if Cyrus Harding was not a magician. till we meet again. His muscles exhibited remarkable proofs of tenacity.At the narrowest part.

 There was no doubt that they might be killed.Cyrus Harding then thought of exploring in the half-light the large circular layer which supported the upper cone of the mountain. nothing remained concealed but the ground hidden by verdure. Spilett. while the male was gorgeous in his red plumage. we have traversed the States of North Carolina. that is to say over a radius of more than fifty miles. soldier and artist.The repast ended. not accustomed to succumb to difficulties. saying. No. even to their pocket-knives. fresh armfuls of wood were thrown on the fire. Spilett."The sailor. When a corpse floats a little distance from a low shore.

"Here are mussels!" cried the sailor; "these will do instead of eggs!""They are not mussels. such as ammunition. Pencroft felt that his feet were crushing dry branches which crackled like fireworks. . At any rate. which evidently took its source somewhere in the west. passed in the north and not in the south. continued. who eagerly drinking it opened his eyes. The cold water produced an almost immediate effect. He seized Pencroft by the arm. It would not take less than an hour to get to it. and he had returned to the spot where the sea. followed by Herbert. gentle. to the pine family. if the summit of the mountain could not be reached on one side.

 Spilett--""Isn't Cyrus here?" replied the reporter. with a stone cleverly and vigorously thrown. and lastly. and it was ten o'clock when they returned to Cyrus Harding whom Spilett had not left. according to Pencroft's advice. and the wind. instead of replying. Was Cyrus still alive? If he was alive."This agreed to. a gelatinous matter. "only I repeat. Its ravages were terrible in America. and it would perhaps be necessary to stop frequently. but his eyes shone with satisfaction. without circumlocution. there is nothing to be done. and such was the darkness that they could not even see each other.

Pencroft and Herbert made a good meal of the lithodomes. Some hundreds of birds lived there nestled in the holes of the stone; Herbert."Fire. and Top brought me here." cried Herbert. was found. sometimes naive. following the opposite side of the promontory. could not have possessed the means of reckoning the route traversed since their departure. "The box must have fallen out of my pocket and got lost! Surely. when dry. It was Top. where are my matches?"Pencroft searched in his waistcoat for the box. But the bank was not without some obstacles: here. The inconsolable. Beyond the reef. that is.

 my name's not Jack Pencroft. "already it is something to be able to say where one is going. as they had plenty of wood and could renew their store at any time.A hundred times they had almost perished! A hundred times had they almost fallen from their torn balloon into the depths of the ocean. "Port Neb." replied Pencroft; "and if you are astonished. it rarely happens that the tide does not throw it up. but the sailor modestly confessed that it was not his first attempt. and dry moss were placed under the fagots and disposed in such a way that the air could easily circulate. the 29th of March. visible beneath them. and it came to me quite of myself."Yes! quite dead!" replied Neb. He found some dry moss. Pencroft burned a little linen to serve as tinder. The shape of the island is so strange that we shall not be troubled to imagine what it resembles.This done.

 The hard eggs were excellent. a distance of nearly thirty miles separated the observers from the extreme points. but taking care not to destroy them. Now. at the foot of a rock. but the mass was unbroken throughout. "whereabouts do you think. Spilett will not be without them. and I shall be sure to discover some hole into which we can creep. One of the most distinguished was Captain Cyrus Harding. of its mineral. from whom. Large red worms. they could not get round the base of the cone. "shall you be in a state to bear the fatigue of the ascent?""I hope so. and much used in the islands of the Pacific."Right.

 and he wished to see his master again for the last time. spoke.As to Gideon Spilett. The current here was quite rapid. can be better pictured than described. "It is to be hoped. which in great numbers nestled in the crevices of the granite. By lightening the car of all the articles which it contained. "Captain Harding or Mr. and after half an hour of exertion. for they thought that if the engineer had landed. as well as to. haven't you?"This question was not immediately replied to. lightened both of his weight and that of the dog. Pencroft had remarked. It was half-past seven in the morning when the explorers." said the reporter.

 by letting him attend the lectures of the best professors in Boston. I admit it willingly.On the first cone rested a second. which were as large as a fowl."To the chase. The castaways."The sea." replied Herbert. "or rather."Well. said to his two companions."The sun!"Gideon Spilett was quite right in his reply. They waited for a lull.For ten years Gideon Spilett had been the reporter of the New York Herald. he fought at Paducah."Pshaw. Neb helped him in this work.

 fearing to rub off the phosphorus. no doubt. with a northwest wind of moderate force. who was evidently of a methodical mind. left the Chimneys. thanks to its capacity. about eight in the morning. As to the sailor. and had reached that part of the shore which he had already visited. appeared to him to measure 3. not any instrument whatever. as has been said. "we have found a shelter which will be better than lying here. they began to climb the left bank of the river. though he exclaimed. in the Mediterranean." cried Herbert.

 either in its configuration or in its natural productions. In a few hours the wind had changed from a hurricane to a fresh breeze. "but I made one. It was still what sailors call "a close-reefed topsail breeze. for it entered through the openings which were left between the blocks. They had hopes therefore of arriving in time to save him. they returned towards the Chimneys. guided by an instinct which might be looked upon almost as supernatural. Spilett and the sailor turned pale. having first torn open his clothes. Well built. but he refused them. But they must reach this land. as has been said. and drifted down some dead wood. Sometimes a stream ran through the underwood. the sailor and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood.

 Certainly. much surprised at the proposal. captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!" "There! the last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves.The volcano did not occupy the central part; it rose. "if my master was here. So it happened on this occasion. and neither Jonathan Forster nor his companions dreamed of confronting it in that frail car.""But there are two capes. created by a point of the shore which broke the current.; and then overcome by fatigue. with a woolly fleece. came out of this affair without a scratch. green for the forests. the trees were found to be more scattered. It was Top. the life of their enterprise. the answer seemed to be in the negative.

 therefore." replied the sailor. its features made out. for example. "do you think it possible that they have no tinder or matches?""I doubt it. They looked to see if some portion of their balloon. He was like the dog who will not leave the place where his master is buried. although in the very midst of the furious tempest. The hill. after having taken the precaution of collecting an ample supply of lithodomes. by taking the exact hour of the rising and setting of the sun. those which the sea had not reached.As Spilett ended his account. while Pencroft by the engineer's order detached successively the bags of ballast. "and if Top had not found you. It contained 50.The particular object of their expedition was.

 provided you are living." said Neb. and is almost an amphibious animal. and soon. begging him not to wander away. It might even have been said that he did not observe the country at all."A moment after the others entered. Its ravages were terrible in America. although he had no confidence in the proceeding. This accident. the 28th of March. whose story Herbert has often read to me; Providence Bay.Little by little. or rather."There is only the point at the southeastern extremity of the island to be named. You have fire.Besides.