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Nevertheless, the colonists were well prepared to meet the winter, however hard it might be.
The colonists were often obliged to make immediate repairs, without which the safety of the birds would have been seriously threatened.
Occupation was not wanting to the colonists, for without reckoning their out-door cares, they had always a thousand plans for the fitting up of Granite House.
In a few hours the colonists would definitely know what to expect.
Certainly, the colonists were not in the situation of castaways abandoned on a sterile islet, constantly contending against a cruel nature for their miserable existence, and incessantly tormented by the longing to return to inhabited countries.
The colonists had as yet, therefore, no means of signalizing their presence.
The colonists again discussed the strange ship, but Ayrton took no part in the conversation.
Who could foresee what the future would then have in store for the colonists?
All these ideas instinctively presented themselves to the colonists' imaginations.
Ayrton remained in his corner, not joining the colonists.
The colonists could do nothing but wait.
It would have been very important to know if the pirates were numerous and better armed than the colonists.
And what had the colonists of Lincoln Island to reply to the pirates' guns?
Evidently the island, with its water, its harbor, its resources of all kinds so increased in value by the colonists, and the concealment afforded by Granite House, could not but be convenient for the convicts; in their hands it would become an excellent place of refuge, and, being unknown, it would assure them, for a long time perhaps, impunity and security.
This was to sacrifice his own life, but save the island and the colonists.
The colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave their post at the Chimneys.
Before starting to occupy their posts, the colonists for the last time wrung each other's hands.
At eight o'clock, however, the colonists observed a movement on board the "Speedy."
Their evident intention was to penetrate into the channel, and cut off the colonists posted on the islet, in such a way, that whatever their number might be, being placed between the fire from the boat and the fire from the brig, they would find themselves in a very disadvantageous position.
A second boat was also lowered, in which eight men took their places, and while the first pulled straight for the islet, to dislodge the colonists from thence the second maneuvered so as to force the entrance of the Mercy.
What could be more terrible for the colonists than to be exposed, at a short distance, to the brig's guns, without being able to reply with any effect?
It was better that the colonists should be together at the moment when they were about to engage in a decisive action.
The colonists left the Chimneys.
The colonists had not, perhaps, been seen, but it was certain that Bob Harvey had thought proper to send a ball through the suspected foliage which concealed that part of the cliff.
The colonists' situation was desperate.
Now the current, by carrying the bodies of these miserable men out to sea, would spare the colonists the sad task of burying them in some corner of their island.
In fact, if the brig was still fit to navigate, the colonists' chances of returning to their native land were singularly increased.
Towards half-past one, the colonists embarked in the boat to visit the wreck.
The colonists could easily go fore and aft, after having removed the cases as they were extricated.
The colonists then reached the stern of the brig--the part formerly surmounted by the poop.
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