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As soon as the sailor and his
companions
left the precipice, the wind struck them again with renewed fury.
The seaman and his
companions
were then about six miles from the Chimneys.
Five minutes after having left the beach, the reporter and his two
companions
arrived at a sort of excavation, hollowed out at the back of a high mound.
The poor Negro, absorbed in his grief, evidently had neither seen his
companions
nor heard the sailor speak.
He was sinking from exhaustion, and certainly, had not the reporter and his
companions
arrived, it would have been all over with Cyrus Harding.
Neb then thought of his
companions.
Neb several times pronounced the name of the reporter, the one among his
companions
whom Top knew best.
Neb's
companions
had listened with great attention to this account.
He recognized Neb and Spilett, then his other two companions, and his hand slightly pressed theirs.
What a man!"Arrived at the summit of the mound, Pencroft and his two
companions
set to work, with no other tools than their hands, to despoil of its principal branches a rather sickly tree, a sort of marine fir; with these branches they made a litter, on which, covered with grass and leaves, they could carry the engineer.
Cyrus Harding ate a little of the grouse, and the rest was divided among his companions, who found it but a meager breakfast, for they were suffering extremely from hunger.
He rushed into the passage, but returned almost immediately, and stood motionless, staring at his companions....
This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the
companions
of the honest sailor.
He could say nothing, for, in the bottom of his heart he shared the confidence which his
companions
had in Cyrus Harding.
The engineer's condition would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his
companions
had not carefully covered him with their coats and waistcoats.
The reporter and his companions, after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes, sucked the sargassum, of which the taste was very tolerable.
Next day, the 28th of March, when the engineer awoke, about eight in the morning, he saw his
companions
around him watching his sleep, and, as on the day before, his first words were:--"Island or continent?"
His
companions
looked at him without speaking.
These almonds were in a perfect state of maturity, and Herbert described them to his companions, who feasted on them.
Pencroft and his two
companions
went to different parts of the bank, so as to cut off the retreat of the capybara, which the dog was looking for beneath the water.
It was evident that the engineer and his
companions
had employed their day well.
The remains of the capybara would be enough to sustain Harding and his
companions
for at least twenty-four hours.
The path, already trodden under the evergreen trees, was found, and at nine o'clock Cyrus Harding and his
companions
had reached the western border of the forest.
"We are on volcanic ground," Cyrus Harding had said, and his
companions
following him began to ascend by degrees on the back of a spur, which, by a winding and consequently more accessible path, joined the first plateau.
Happily for the engineer and his
companions
the weather was beautiful, the atmosphere tranquil; for a high breeze at an elevation of three thousand feet would have hindered their proceedings.
Evening came on by degrees, and it was almost night when Cyrus Harding and his companions, much fatigued by an ascent of seven hours, arrived at the plateau of the first cone.
The engineer merely told his
companions
that the land upon which fate had thrown them was an island, and that the next day they would consult.
The next day, the 30th of March, after a hasty breakfast, which consisted solely of the roasted tragopan, the engineer wished to climb again to the summit of the volcano, so as more attentively to survey the island upon which he and his
companions
were imprisoned for life perhaps, should the island be situated at a great distance from any land, or if it was out of the course of vessels which visited the archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.
This time his
companions
followed him in the new exploration.
They had faith in themselves, doubtless, but it must be observed that the basis of this faith was not the same with Harding as with his
companions.
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