Things happened as Pencroft had predicted, he being seldom mistaken in his prognostications. The wind rose, and from a fresh breeze it soon increased ...
Two years already! and for two years the colonists had had no communication with their fellow-creatures! They were without news from the civilized wor...
Poor man! said Herbert, who had rushed to the door, but returned, having seen Ayrton slide down the rope on the lift and disappear in the darkness. He...
These last words justified the colonists' presentiment. There had been some mournful past, perhaps expiated in the sight of men, but from which his co...
Yes! the unfortunate man had wept! Some recollection doubtless had flashed across his brain, and to use Cyrus Harding's expression, by those tears he ...
The next day, the 20th of October, at seven o'clock in the morning, after a voyage of four days, the Bonadventure gently glided up to the beach at the...
Pencroft, Herbert, and Gideon Spilett remained silent in the midst of the darkness. Pencroft shouted loudly. No reply was made. The sailor then struck...
A castaway! exclaimed Pencroft; left on this Tabor Island not two hundred miles from us! Ah, Captain Harding, you won't now oppose my going. No, Pencr...
In the evening the hunters returned, having enjoyed good sport, and being literally loaded with game; indeed, they had as much as four men could possi...
Winter arrived with the month of June, which is the December of the northern zones, and the great business was the making of warm and solid clothing. ...
