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Is it not so, my friends?""I will obey you in everything, captain," said Herbert, seizing the engineer's hand.
"One minute, my friends," said the engineer.
The engineer's proposal was unanimously agreed to by his companions.
First, they named the two bays and the mountain, Union Bay, Washington Bay, and Mount Franklin, as the engineer had suggested.
"Adopted," said the engineer.
As to the points of the compass, the engineer had roughly fixed them by the height and position of the sun, which placed Union Bay and Prospect Heights to the east.
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!
The engineer's proposal was replied to by three hurrahs.
Pencroft thought it must be breakfast-time, and the watches of the reporter and engineer were therefore consulted to find out the hour.
As to the engineer's watch, it, of course, had stopped during the time which he had passed on the downs.
The engineer now wound it up, and ascertaining by the height of the sun that it must be about nine o'clock in the morning, he put his watch at that hour.
Moreover, the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling-pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that.
The reporter and the engineer went together, Gideon Spilett ready to note every incident, the engineer silent for the most part, and only stepping aside to pick up one thing or another, a mineral or vegetable substance, which he put into his pocket, without making any remark.
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.
The colonists, motionless, anxiously awaited the result of this exploration, when a shout from the engineer made them hasten forward.
The odor, easily recognized, was enough for the engineer to guess what the smoke was which at first, not without cause, had startled him.
"Captain," said Pencroft, when the engineer and the reporter had rejoined them, "Captain, you see quite well we can't get on unless we make a few guns.
"Perhaps," replied the engineer, "but we will begin by first manufacturing some bows and arrows, and I don't doubt that you will become as clever in the use of them as the Australian hunters."
But the engineer desired to know how and where the overplus of the water from the lake escaped, and the exploration was prolonged under the trees for a mile and a half towards the north.
If it was so, the engineer thought that it might perhaps be possible to utilize this fall and borrow its power, actually lost without profit to any one.
Chapter 13"Well, captain, where are we going to begin?" asked Pencroft next morning of the engineer.
The engineer Harding could not have been seconded by more intelligent companions, nor with more devotion and zeal.
Now this beginning of which the engineer spoke was the construction of an apparatus which would serve to transform the natural substances.
I would soon make a bow and arrows, and then there could be plenty of game in the larder!""Yes, a knife, a sharp blade." said the engineer, as if he was speaking to himself.
Generally bricks are formed in molds, but the engineer contented himself with making them by hand.
The Chimneys during these few days was not made more comfortable, for the engineer hoped to discover, or build if necessary, a more convenient dwelling.
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.
The result of these different works was, that, on the 9th of April, the engineer had at his disposal a quantity of prepared lime and some thousands of bricks.
Five days after, the kiln was supplied with coal, which the engineer had discovered lying open to the sky towards the mouth of the Red Creek, and the first smoke escaped from a chimney twenty feet high.
Their return was marked by a fortunate incident; the engineer discovered a substance which replaced tinder.
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