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The engineer had confidence, because he felt capable of extorting from this wild country everything necessary for the life of himself and his companions; the latter feared nothing, just because Cyrus Harding was with them.
Before eight o'clock Harding and his companions were assembled at the summit of the crater, on a conical mound which swelled the northern edge.
The engineer and his companions, mute and motionless, surveyed for some minutes every point of the ocean, examining it to its most extreme limits.
Between the volcano and the east coast Cyrus Harding and his companions were surprised to see a lake, bordered with green trees, the existence of which they had not suspected.
Seen from this height, the lake appeared to be on the same level as the ocean, but, on reflection, the engineer explained to his companions that the altitude of this little sheet of water must be about three hundred feet, because the plateau, which was its basin, was but a prolongation of the coast.
Cyrus Harding and his companions remained an hour at the top of the mountain.
But before giving his companions the signal for departure, Cyrus Harding said to them in a calm, grave voice,--"Here, my friends, is the small corner of land upon which the hand of the Almighty has thrown us.
He then thanked his companions, and added, that he would rely on their energy and on the aid of Heaven.
The engineer's proposal was unanimously agreed to by his companions.
Herbert was going to propose to give it the engineer's name and all his companions would have applauded him, when Cyrus Harding said simply,--"Let us give it the name of a great citizen, my friend; of him who now struggles to defend the unity of the American Republic!
On leaving the plateau, the captain proposed to his companions to return to the Chimneys by a new way.
In a few moments, the engineer, Gideon Spilett, and Herbert had rejoined their two companions, and like them, they kept out of sight behind the heaps of basalt.
Top was recalled by a slight whistle from his master, and the latter, signing to his companions to wait for him, glided away among the rocks.
The little band retraced their steps, therefore, and by the left bank of the Mercy, Cyrus Harding and his companions arrived at the Chimneys.
The engineer Harding could not have been seconded by more intelligent companions, nor with more devotion and zeal.
On the 6th of April, at daybreak, the engineer and his companions were collected in the glade, at the place where they were going to perform the operation of baking the bricks.
When supper was finished, before sleeping, Harding and his companions went to take the air on the beach.
It was impossible to think of those animals in an alimentary point of view, for their oily flesh is detestable; however, Cyrus Harding observed them attentively, and without making known his idea, he announced to his companions that very soon they would pay a visit to the islet.
Then passing to another idea,--"Think," said he, "how astounded Jonathan Forster and his companions must have been when, next morning, they found the place empty, and the machine flown away!""I am utterly indifferent about knowing what they may have thought," said the reporter.
His companions, bending over him, watched the operation with extreme interest.
Cyrus Harding announced this result to his companions, and taking into consideration errors of observation, as he had done for the latitude, he believed he could positively affirm that the position of Lincoln Island was between the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh parallel, and between the hundred and fiftieth and the hundred and fifty-fifth meridian to the west of the meridian of Greenwich.
Till then the engineer's companions had been brickmakers and potters, now they were to become metallurgists.
Harding then put his foot on the islet for the first, and his companions for the second time.
The engineer and his two companions threw themselves between the sea and the seals.
Cyrus Harding had nothing but the two steel blades from Top's collar, and yet he was so clever, and his companions aided him with so much intelligence, that three days afterwards the little colony's stock of tools was augmented by a blowing-machine, destined to inject the air into the midst of the ore when it should be subjected to heat--an indispensable condition to the success of the operation.
"Besides," added Cyrus Harding, who this day was talking of these things with his companions, "we have some precautions to take."
The engineer now proposed to his companions to climb the slope, and to return to the Chimneys by the heights, while exploring the northern and eastern shores of the lake.
Cyrus Harding and his companions walked over this new ground with great care.
Neither Cyrus Harding nor his companions had at first paid any attention to Top's behavior; but the dog's barking soon became so frequent that the engineer noticed it.
Cyrus Harding and his companions could not understand it.
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