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However, Pencroft observed that the shore was more equal, that the ground rose, and he declared that it was joined by a long slope to a hill, whose massive front he thought that he could see looming indistinctly through the mist.
The birds were less numerous on this part of the shore; the sea was also less tumultuous, and they observed that the agitation of the waves was diminished.
After a walk of a mile and a half, the shore presented no curve which would permit them to return to the north.
He was carried down very quickly, but he also made way towards the shore.
It took more than half an hour to cross from the islet to the land, and he reached the shore several hundred feet from the place which was opposite to the point from which he had started.
This point abutted on the shore in a grotesque outline of high granite rocks.
Half a mile from the shore rose the islet, which somewhat resembled the carcass of a gigantic whale.
All three arrived without difficulty on the opposite shore.
Now, on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water, and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there.
In a kind of little bay, created by a point of the shore which broke the current, the sailor and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood, which they had fastened together with dry creepers.
He must have reached some point of the shore; don't you think so, Pencroft?"
Stretched out below them was the sandy shore, bounded on the right of the river's mouth by lines of breakers.
At the northern extremity of the bay the outline of the shore was continued to a great distance in a wider curve.
There the shore was low, flat, without cliffs, and with great banks of sand, which the tide left uncovered.
Then, from the edge of this forest to the shore extended a plain, scattered irregularly with groups of trees.
The shore was solitary; not a vestige of a mark.
It was clear that that portion of the shore had never been visited by a human being.
As to Neb, he was roaming about the shore.
Outside could be heard the howling of the wind and the monotonous sound of the surf breaking on the shore.
The inconsolable, despairing Neb, notwithstanding all that his companions could say to induce him to take some rest, wandered all night long on the shore calling on his master.
But ought they to establish themselves on this part of the coast, without trying to know to what continent it belonged, if it was inhabited, or if they were on the shore of a desert island?
It was accordingly settled that for a few days they would remain at the Chimneys so as to prepare themselves for an expedition, either along the shore or into the interior of the country.
No, it did not seem to him possible that such a man had ended in this vulgar fashion, carried away by a wave, drowned in the floods, a few hundred feet from a shore.
This same morning, the 26th of March, at daybreak, Neb had set out on the shore in a northerly direction, and he had returned to the spot where the sea, no doubt, had closed over the unfortunate Harding.
The opposite shore appeared to be more uneven, and the valley of which the river occupied the bottom was more clearly visible.
Chapter 7Gideon Spilett was standing motionless on the shore, his arms crossed, gazing over the sea, the horizon of which was lost towards the east in a thick black cloud which was spreading rapidly towards the zenith.
"Then," said the reporter, "Cyrus Harding must have disappeared twelve hundred feet at the most from the shore?""About that," replied Pencroft.
"What astonishes me," rejoined the reporter, "while admitting that our companion has perished, is that Top has also met his death, and that neither the body of the dog nor of his master has been cast on the shore!""It is not astonishing, with such a heavy sea," replied the sailor.
But what Pencroft thought most probable was, that Neb had pushed his researches on the shore farther than the day before, and that he had not as yet had time to return.
In short, they sometimes went faster than they liked, and had some difficulty in keeping their feet; but hope gave them strength, for it was not at random that they made their way along the shore.
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