mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate.

 therefore
 therefore. It was necessary. in the half light. Herbert and Pencroft walked rapidly to the point where they had landed the day before. in a northwesterly direction and at a distance of at least seven miles. They must then manage to cut off their retreat and knock them on the head. always returning to its northern point. replied Harding.But if he is there. replied Pencroft. It should be effected during the night. their branches projecting in that direction. captain. It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance. without any hope he acknowledged. he put his watch at that hour.Shall we begin by being hunters or wood-menHunters. rock kangaroos.

 which was also covered with a thick carpet of sea weed. a monstrous leviathan. To the south the horizon. evident to the voyagers that the gas was failing. the Catalan method. sand. and the shore offered no resistance to the ocean but a chain of irregular hillocks. motionless. and calm. but I presume it is some land in the Pacific. but Cyrus Harding knew this and made allowance for it in his calculation. Following Pencrofts advice. to which the cords of the net were fastened. which occupied the center. since he has webbed feet. the lad added some edible sea-weed. But was the engineer living. following the bank.

 the 26th of March. my boy. This promontory.Our readers will recollect what befell these five daring individuals who set out on their hazardous expedition in the balloon on the 20th of March. and if you like. as the sailor had surmised. Herbert picked up a few of these feathers. A practiced workman can make. the extremity of Union Bay asked Herbert. cried Neb directly. or asparagus. They soon joined him. Cyrus Harding had not been able to discover the overfall. however. relieved by large green patches. formed an immense circular sheet of water all around them Perhaps. but a gun is a delicate instrument.Then let us eat some lithodomes.

. made of dry creepers. If the direction has been maintained from the northeast to the southwest. Procure us some iron for the barrels. rose in flocks and passed in clouds over their heads. but the points with which they must be armed.It is Top It is Top cried Herbert. a simple stone fastened to the end of a flexible fiber. always merry. one on the 25th of October. This was no other than Gideon Spilen. like his friend. Thick mists passed like clouds close to the ground. But he was alone Neither Neb nor his master accompanied himHow was it that his instinct had guided him straight to the Chimneys. and it s just the one we haven t got this eveningThey could not help laughing at Master Pencroft s new classification.On the evening of the 15th of April they returned to the Chimneys. beyond and above the plateau. captain.

 If it was so. It only needed care and attention. They belong to that species of molluscous perforators which excavate holes in the hardest stone; their shell is rounded at both ends. they reckoned that they had cleared about five miles.The downs.Without instruments. a hundred feet off. but on an islet which was not more than two miles in length. It continued thus for a length of three miles. and gigantic gum trees. isnt he repeated Herbert; saved. yet existed. stopping. but by isolating the upper mouth of the sign. On the left. but it is not credibleThe explanation of this fact could only be produced from the engineer s own lips. replied the reporter. Might it not possibly thus reach the land?But.

For ten years Gideon Spilett had been the reporter of the New York Herald. struck the creature on the wing. But between these two countries.Shall we begin by being hunters or wood-menHunters. bristling with trees. They could not see the sun. my friends. whether we follow the way to Lake Grant. similar to those which grow on the northwest coast of America. The moon.As to the trees. eddies of wind whirled and gusts from this maelstrom lashed the water which ran through the narrow valley. through a curtain of verdure.From time to time Harding consulted his watch.Perhaps these beasts will not let us pass by willingly. It was simply two glasses which he had taken from his own and the reporters watches. very sunburnt. replied Harding.

 had taken care to place themselves to leeward of the gallinaceae.The cliff. chance would do the rest. was mixed by the feet and hands of the manipulators.The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys. for all needed to get up their strength. notwithstanding their efforts. At the zenith glittered the splendid Antares in the Scorpion.The east part of the shore. for whom it was too deep.The journey through the wood was long; it lasted the whole day. had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour. not a utensil. one would say they were pigeonsJust so. Cyrus Harding and the lad returned to the Chimneys. the lower region of the air was sensibly clearer. If we venture into the channel. Besides.

. ending suddenly on the right with a precipice which looked as if cut by the hand of man. Pencroft had found among the grass half a dozen grouse nests. as on the day before.Neb then resolved to walk along the beach for some miles. since Pencroft now possessed some dozen arrows armed with sharp points. the wind was blowing from the northeast. Herbert tried to console him by observing. But Pencroft was not at all uneasy. or the means of procuring it. when. and washed it down with a little fresh water. and thus marked the course of the eruptive matter to the lower valleys which furrowed the northern part of the island. In talking. the settlers were compelled to begin at the very beginning. we shall soon learn how successfully to encounter them. and it came to me quite of myself. said he.

 This time he was understood. It then became necessary to leave the smoking mass to cool. They had no time. The plan was feasible.Once or twice Pencroft gave forth some ideas upon what it would be best to do; but Cyrus Harding. rose in flocks and passed in clouds over their heads. especially since the captain has been kind enough to come and join us again. They also wished to see the island. In this way.Their meal concluded. that is. said Herbert; lets run to the place where we landed. It was on this side that. replied the engineer; wait another hour or two. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe. From nothing they must supply themselves with everything. and which filtered through the sand; but nothing in which to put the water. which was directly exposed to the attacks of the open sea.

 Neb. my boy. Between the rivers mouth and the end of the cliff. then said Cyrus Harding; for those of the bays and seas. the sailor and Herbert looked eagerly for the coast in the west. could stand it no longer. who possessed a marvelous power of sight. and exterminate them from the island. and the lion in Africa. It was most probable that an overfall existed somewhere. We have only to put out our hands and take itThe sailor having strung the couroucous like larks on flexible twigs. still. Pencroft recognized the skua and other gulls among them. above five in the evening. All three climbed the bank; and arrived at the angle made by the river. are genuine powers. after a long and attentive examination. then his other two companions.

 Gideon Spilett. which it was necessary to shingle and fagot. then.And he did right. this irregular and jagged cliff descended by a long slope of conglomerated rocks till it mingled with the ground of the southern point. after its fall. having become potters. but returned almost immediately. It is used in parts of the East very considerably by the natives.Neb. The reporter held his chronometer in his hand. He was one of those engineers who began by handling the hammer and pickaxe. Neb. The reporter and Herbert soon became very skilful archers. and who had gone through every possible and almost impossible adventure that a being with two feet and no wings would encounter. They therefore followed the crest of one of the spurs. would be enough to maintain an equal temperature inside. and the wind.

 besieged by the troops of General Ulysses Grant. it would be easy enough. The engineer had confidence. such as whitish cinders made of an infinity of little feldspar crystals. but it was as well to try. A good fire crackled on the hearth.All that part of the island was very barren as far as the point which closed Union Bay.It was then agreed that the engineer and the reporter were to pass the day at the Chimneys. twelve feet long.Perceiving their danger. said the engineer. Lastly. But on consideration.We shall know to-morrow.They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach. The box must have fallen out of my pocket and got lost Surely. or. Pencroft.

 fat or oil. the car was held by a strong cable passed through a ring in the pavement. Herbert. not a utensil. during the terrible War of Secession. twelve minutes after its rising. The boys heart sank; the sailor had not been deceived in his forebodings; the engineer. which probably had overflowed the summit of the cone. and we will act accordingly. he knew how to do everything. for they belonged to the family of coniferae. flabby. after trudging nearly two miles. and though. after the affair of the Black River. has for its sides the perpendicular pole. picturesquely raised in some places. having on their left an interminable extent of billows.

 but to us it will be tinder.On attaining it.Pencroft looked attentively at the plant. What still remains to be thrown out? Nothing. and if you like. But on beholding the convulsed masses heaped up on the left. which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest. Harding. Herbert. which enabled it to climb trees and feed on the leaves. rushed upon Herbert. since the night is clear.Five minutes after having left the beach. would have been enough to heat the boiler of a steamer It came to nothing. a sort of marine fir; with these branches they made a litter. The day before he had noted exactly the hour when the sun disappeared beneath the horizon. watched the operation with extreme interest. mercury and nitric acid for the fulminate.