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On this day, the engineer, seeing a plant belonging to the wormwood genus, the principal species of which are absinthe, balm-mint, tarragon, etc., gathered several tufts, and, presenting them to the sailor, said,--"Here, Pencroft, this will please you."
When the wormwood was properly dried it provided them with a very inflammable substance, especially afterwards when the engineer had impregnated it with nitrate of potash, of which the island possessed several beds, and which is in truth saltpeter.
At the southern zenith glittered the circumpolar constellations, and above all the Southern Cross, which some days before the engineer had greeted on the summit of Mount Franklin.
If the engineer had possessed a sextant, an apparatus with which the angular distance of objects can be measured with great precision, there would have been no difficulty in the operation.
This instrument finished, the engineer returned to the beach, but as it was necessary to take the height of the pole from above a clear horizon, that is, a sea horizon, and as Claw Cape hid the southern horizon, he was obliged to look for a more suitable station.
The engineer intended to manufacture soap as soon as he could procure the necessary materials--soda or potash, fat or oil.
"Shall you not need an instrument similar to the one which you used yesterday?" said Herbert to the engineer.
Herbert, wishing to learn everything he could, followed the engineer to the beach.
"Just so, Herbert," replied the engineer; "and when we have measured the two first distances, knowing the height of the pole, we shall only have a sum in proportion to do, which will give us the height of the cliff, and will save us the trouble of measuring it directly."
The engineer then took a flat stone which he had brought back from one of his previous excursions, a sort of slate, on which it was easy to trace figures with a sharp shell.
There was only the longitude to be obtained, and the position of the island would be determined, The engineer hoped to attempt this the same day, at twelve o'clock, at which moment the sun would pass the meridian.
"Oh!" replied the engineer, "we might, no doubt, find all these substances on the island, but a gun is a delicate instrument, and needs very particular tools.
"But, some day or other, we shall find means of going away!""Sooner, perhaps, than you imagine, my friends," remarked the engineer, "if Lincoln Island is but a medium distance from an inhabited island, or from a continent.
"Yes," replied the engineer, "but the distance which separates us from it is more than twelve hundred miles."
"Nothing, indeed," added the engineer.
"Well, Cyrus," asked the reporter, "if Lincoln Island is not more than two or three thousand miles from New Zealand or Chile?""Well," replied the engineer, "instead of building a house we will build a boat, and Master Pencroft shall be put in command--""Well then," cried the sailor, "I am quite ready to be captain--as soon as you can make a craft that's able to keep at sea!""We shall do it, if it is necessary," replied Cyrus Harding.
The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys, not far from that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his enigmatical preservation.
On the contrary, the engineer inclined it towards the south, that is to say, in the direction of the coast opposite to the sun, for it must not be forgotten that the settlers in Lincoln Island, as the island was situated in the Southern Hemisphere, saw the radiant planet describe its diurnal arc above the northern, and not above the southern horizon.
Herbert now understood how the engineer was going to proceed to ascertain the culmination of the sun, that is to say its passing the meridian of the island or, in other words, determine due south.
Till then the engineer's companions had been brickmakers and potters, now they were to become metallurgists.
Before anything else could be done it was necessary to make the iron ore, of which the engineer had observed some traces in the northwest part of the island, fit for use by converting it either into iron or into steel.
"Then, captain," said Pencroft, "we are going to work iron ore?""Yes, my friend," replied the engineer, "and for that--something which will please you--we must begin by having a seal hunt on the islet."
But the engineer had already left the Chimneys, and Pencroft prepared for the seal hunt, without having received any other explanation.
The engineer and his two companions threw themselves between the sea and the seals.
"Here are the seals required, captain!" said the sailor, advancing towards the engineer.
It was, in fact, a blowing-machine, necessary for the treatment of the ore that the engineer wished to manufacture with the skins of the amphibious creatures.
The engineer had decided, as has been said, to operate near the veins both of coal and ore.
This ore, very rich in iron, enclosed in its fusible veinstone, was perfectly suited to the mode of reduction which the engineer intended to employ; that is, the Catalan method, but simplified, as it is used in Corsica.
Thus the engineer proceeded.
"That is probable," replied the engineer, "although we have not yet explored the interior; but if no human beings are found, I fear that dangerous animals may abound.
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