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Having thrown a rapid glance around him, the engineer seated himself on a block of stone.
"We shall know to-morrow," said the engineer; "till then, there is nothing to be done."
"While you were carrying me yesterday, did I not see in the west a mountain which commands the country?""Yes," replied Spilett, "a mountain which must be rather high--""Well," replied the engineer, "we will climb to the summit to-morrow, and then we shall see if this land is an island or a continent.
"But, whether it is an island or a continent," asked Gideon Spilett, "whereabouts do you think, Cyrus, this storm has thrown us?""I cannot say exactly," replied the engineer, "but I presume it is some land in the Pacific.
"You say 'Never,' my dear Cyrus?""Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise."
"It is to be hoped, too, that this island, if it be one, is not situated just out of the course of ships; that would be really unlucky!""We shall not know what we have to rely on until we have first made the ascent of the mountain," replied the engineer.
"I hope so," replied the engineer, "provided you and Pencroft, my boy, show yourselves quick and clever hunters."
It was then agreed that the engineer and the reporter were to pass the day at the Chimneys, so as to examine the shore and the upper plateau.
In certain places, less crowded, growing in clumps, these pines exhibited considerable dimensions, and appeared to indicate, by their development, that the country was situated in a higher latitude than the engineer had supposed.
The sailor could scarcely believe his eyes, and he was so amazed that he did not think of questioning the engineer.
The sailor considered the apparatus; then he gazed at the engineer without saying a word, only a look plainly expressed his opinion that if Cyrus Harding was not a magician, he was certainly no ordinary man.
It was evident that the engineer and his companions had employed their day well.
The sargassum and the almonds of the stone-pine completed the repast, during which the engineer spoke little.
As the glasses had been returned to the watches of the engineer and reporter, Pencroft burned a little linen to serve as tinder.
The engineer was not a man who would allow himself to be diverted from his fixed idea.
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.
The engineer, accordingly, regardless of fatigue, leaving Pencroft and Neb to arrange the beds, and Gideon Spilett to note the incidents of the day, began to follow the edge of the plateau, going towards the north.
But if the engineer and the boy were obliged to give up thoughts of following a circular direction, in return an opportunity was given for ascending the cone.
The persevering engineer resolved to continue his ascent until he was stopped.
It was the slender crescent moon, already almost disappearing; but its light was sufficient to show clearly the horizontal line, then detached from the cloud, and the engineer could see its reflection trembling for an instant on a liquid surface.
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.
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.
Pencroft especially, since the incident of the relighted fire, would not have despaired for an instant, even if he was on a bare rock, if the engineer was with him on the rock.
It was just what the engineer had made it out to be in the dark; that is to say, a vast funnel which extended, widening, to a height of a thousand feet above the plateau.
The engineer and his companions, mute and motionless, surveyed for some minutes every point of the ocean, examining it to its most extreme limits.
"And consequently an area?""That is difficult to estimate," replied the engineer, "for it is so uneven."
Its strange form caught the eye, and when Gideon Spilett, on the engineer's advice, had drawn the outline, they found that it resembled some fantastic animal, a monstrous leviathan, which lay sleeping on the surface of the Pacific.
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.
"Certainly," replied the engineer, "for it must be fed by the water which flows from the mountain."
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