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The question of clothes was now seriously discussed, the settlers having no other garments than those they wore when the balloon threw them on the island.
Moreover, if the winter was severe, the settlers would suffer greatly from cold.
The settlers in Lincoln Island were no longer the miserable castaways thrown on the islet.
Scissors were made among other things, and the settlers were at last able to cut their hair, and also to shave, or at least trim their beards.
The settlers in Lincoln Island had still one privation.
Perhaps in time the settlers could replace this want by some equivalent, it was possible that they might find the sago or the breadfruit tree among the forests of the south, but they had not as yet met with these precious trees.
On this day, as it was raining in torrents, the settlers were assembled in the great hall in Granite House, when the lad cried out all at once,--"Look here, captain--A grain of corn!"
The weather having cleared, the settlers climbed the height above Granite House.
Did it not seem as if the settlers were laying the first stone of some edifice?
The settlers had frequently been obliged to renew their store of wood.
It was the first time that the settlers had set foot on the right bank of the Mercy, and ventured into the midst of those gigantic and superb coniferae now sprinkled over with snow.
After having turned the point, the settlers saw a long beach washed by the open sea.
Breakfast was finished, the exploration was continued, and the settlers arrived at the border of the marshy region.
The settlers had here an abundant reserve of aquatic game.
When the atmosphere was calm, the low temperature was easily borne, but when the wind blew, the poor settlers, insufficiently clothed, felt it severely.
It was always rabbit, but Neb knew how to vary his sauces and the settlers did not think of complaining.
During these days of seclusion the settlers did not remain inactive.
Notwithstanding the bad weather, the settlers renewed their stores of different things, stone-pine almonds, rhizomes, syrup from the maple-tree, for the vegetable part; rabbits from the warren, agouties, and kangaroos for the animal part.
A visit was also paid to the Chimneys, and the settlers could not but congratulate themselves on not having been living there during the hurricane.
The settlers had not done with the rigorous cold.
Several times, one or other of the settlers descended to the beach in the midst of ice which the waves heaped up at each tide, but they soon climbed up again to Granite House, and it was not without pain and difficulty that their hands could hold to the rounds of the ladder.
We know that the settlers had no other sugar at their disposal than the liquid substance which they drew from the maple, by making deep incisions in the tree.
Those which the settlers wore had passed this winter, but they would not last until next winter.
They therefore waited with some impatience, when an incident occurred which increased the desire the settlers had to visit the whole of their domain.
So, then, the island was, or had been, inhabited by others than the settlers.
Some of these trees lay on the ground, and they had only to be barked, which was the most difficult thing of all, owing to the imperfect tools which the settlers possessed.
The settlers resolved to go to its extremity, and only go beyond it as much as was necessary to take a rapid survey of the coast as far as Claw Cape.
But the thought which came naturally to the settlers was, that these strangers could not be Malay pirates, for the chest was evidently of American or European make.
But, wherever the chest might have come from, it was a treasure to the settlers on Lincoln Island.
In fact, things had so come about that the settlers in Lincoln Island no longer needed help for themselves, but were even able to carry it to others.
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