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"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.
Chapter 15The next day, the 17th of April, the sailor's first words were addressed to Gideon Spilett.
"A seal hunt!" cried the sailor, turning towards Gideon Spilett.
Cyrus Harding, Herbert, Gideon Spilett, Neb, and the sailor were soon collected on the shore, at a place where the channel left a ford passable at low tide.
All at once the tall figure of the sailor appeared.
"Here are the seals required, captain!" said the sailor, advancing towards the engineer.
The sailor and the Negro cleverly performed the operation, and three hours afterwards Cyrus Harding had at his disposal two seals' skins, which he intended to use in this state, without subjecting them to any tanning process.
"We will not ask more from it," replied the sailor.
"Then, captain," replied the sailor, "let us build a house on the edge of the lake.
"You are laughing," cried the sailor, "and why?
But the engineer did not reply to the sailor except by proposing to examine the cliff more attentively, from the mouth of the river to the angle which terminated it on the north.
The reporter and the sailor talked with him, and he could not conceal his astonishment.
"The woodmen have just finished, captain." said the sailor, laughing, "and when you want masons--""Masons,--no, but chemists," replied the engineer.
To employ great means, open the granite, create a cascade, that suited the sailor.
On the way the sailor could not help saying to the engineer,--"Don't you think, captain, that by means of that charming liquid you have made, one could blow up the whole of our island?"
asked the sailor.
"Oh, captain," replied the sailor, "with a little determination--"Pencroft had erased the word "impossible" from the dictionary of Lincoln Island.
"Well, captain, what are we stopping for?" asked the sailor, impatient to enter the narrow passage.
"Why uninhabitable?" asked the sailor.
"Keep on your guard, and forward!""It is becoming more and more interesting," murmured Gideon Spilett in the sailor's ear, who nodded.
"Never mind," added the sailor, "I should like very much to be Top just for a quarter of an hour, for he doesn't bark for nothing!"
"Here," replied the engineer, showing the sturdy sailor a considerable recess in the side, which would much diminish the thickness.
The sailor approached him, and touching his arm, "Captain!" said he."What do you want, my friend?"
This was done, and a little before four o'clock, at the moment when the sailor's torch went out in its turn, Cyrus Harding and his companions passed out of the passage.
"And how shall we get in?" asked the sailor.
asked the engineer, looking at the sailor.
"But," as the sailor said, "they quite took the wind out of the sails of the Robinsons, for whom everything was done by a miracle."
When the sailor was enthusiastic, Neb always looked as if he would say, "Nothing could be more natural."
As to Gideon Spilett, he took part in the common work, and was not less skilful in it than his companions, which always rather astonished the sailor.
They were light and active, and Pencroft, as a sailor, accustomed to run up the masts and shrouds, was able to give them lessons.
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