t Words
-- Twelve Years on the Islet -- Avowal which escapes him
-- The Disappearance -- Cyrus Harding's Confidence --
Construction of a Mill -- The first Bread -- An Act of
Devotion -- Honest Hands 176

CHAPTER XVII

Still alone -- The Stranger's Request -- The Farm
established at the Corral -- Twelve Years ago -- The
Boatswain's Mate of the _Britannia_ -- Left on Tabor
Island -- Cyrus Harding's Hand -- The mysterious
Document 191

CHAPTER XVIII

Conversation -- Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett -- An
Idea of the Engineer's -- The Electric Telegraph -- The
Wires -- The Battery -- The Alphabet -- Fine Season --
Prosperity of the Colony -- Photography -- An Appearance
of Snow -- Two Years on Lincoln Island 203

CHAPTER XIX

Recollections of their Native Land -- Probable Future --
Project for surveying the Coasts of the Island --
Departure on the 16th of April -- Sea-view of Reptile
End -- The basaltic Rocks of the Western Coast -- Bad
Weather -- Night comes on -- New Incident 216

CHAPTER XX

A Night at Sea -- Shark Gulf -- Confidences --
Preparations for Winter -- Forwardness of the Bad Season
-- Severe Cold -- Work in the Interior -- In Six Months
-- A Photographic Negative -- Unexpected Incident 226

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
TURNING A TURTLE 9
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM 15
UNPACKING THE MARVELLOUS CHEST 17
PENCROFT'S SUPERSTITION 21
IS IT TOBACCO? 27
THE HALT FOR BREAKFAST 29
DENIZENS OF THE FOREST 37
THE SEA 39
AT THAT MOMENT A SHOT STRUCK THE JAGUAR BETWEEN THE EYES
AND IT FELL DEAD 43
"NOW THERE'S SOMETHING TO EXPLAIN THE BULLET!" EXCLAIMED
PENCROFT 51
A WRECK IN THE AIR 53
THERE W