...Novestiges of his handiwork showed that either at an early or at a lateperiod had man lived there...
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..."No! a hundred times no! a thousand times no!" cried the sailor,springing up from the table...
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...It would take at least a month to build a boat...
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..."Yes, a real boat," replied the sailor; "but we do not want one for asea voyage, and in five days at the most, I will undertake to constructa canoe fit to navigate the Mercy...
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...A deserted camp, the ashes of a fire, wouldput us on the track, and this is what we will look for in our nextexpedition...
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...To the north-west rose Mount Franklin, whichconcealed a great part of the horizon...
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...There was no vegetation on this sharp promontory, which projectedtwo miles from the forest, and it thus represented a giant's armstretched out from a leafy sleeve...
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...It is quite prepared for a voyage, and, since it hasfloated here, it may just as well float to the mouth of the river...
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...It appeared to be in aperfect state of preservation, which was explained by the fact that ithad stranded on a sandy beach, and not among rocks...
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...One of the ropes which fastened the barrels waspartly unlashed and used as a cable to unite the floating apparatus withthe canoe...
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..."If only there was—" said the sailor in a low voice...
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...This day—the 29th of October—happened to be a Sunday, and, beforegoing to bed, Herbert asked the engineer if he would not read themsomething from the Gospel...
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...Cyrus Harding smiled at the sailor's idea, and, yielding to his wish, heopened exactly at a place where the leaves were separated by a marker...
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...If there had been a wreck on the coast, as wassupposed, there would be many things cast up, which would be lawfullytheir prizes...
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...They hoped besides to supply themselves on the road, and Neb took carenot to forget the portable stove...
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...It is useless to add that Pencroft, Herbert, and Neb, thus armed, wereat the summit of their happiness, although Cyrus Harding made thempromise not to fire a shot unless it was necessary...
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...But till then the guns had not spoken, and the first report which awokethe echoes of the forest of the Far West was provoked by the appearanceof a beautiful bird, resembling the kingfisher...
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...The loryis of the size of a pigeon, the plumage dashed with green, part of thewings crimson, and its crest bordered with white...
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...Their trunks at the basemeasured twenty feet in circumference, and their bark was covered by anetwork of furrows containing a red, sweet-smelling gum...
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...This fact is now beyond doubt, and it is a happycircumstance for us settlers in Lincoln Island...
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