If Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, Pencroft, Neb, and Ayrton had survived, it was becau, asmbled under their tent, they had been hurled into the a at the instant when the fragments of the island rained down on every side.
When they reached the surfabsp;they could only perceive, at half a cable''s length, this mass of rocks, towards whibsp;they swam and on whibsp;they found footing.
On this barren robsp;they had now existed for nine days. A few provisions taken from the magazine of Granite Hou before the catastrophe, a little fresh water from the rain whibsp;had fallen in a hollow of the robsp;was all that the unfortunate ists possd. Their last hope, the vesl, had been shattered to pieces. They had no means of quitting the reef; no fire, nor any means of obtaining it. It emed that they must iably perish.
This day, the 18th of Marbsp;there remained only provisions for two days, although they limited their ption to the bare necessaries of life. All their sbsp;and intelligenbsp;could avail them nothing in their prent position. They were in the hand of God.
If Cyrus Harding, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, Pencroft, Neb, and Ayrton had survived, it was becau, asmbled under their tent, they had been hurled into the a at the instant when the fragments of the island rained down on every side.
When they reached the surfabsp;they could only perceive, at half a cable''s length, this mass of rocks, towards whibsp;they swam and on whibsp;they found footing.
On this barren robsp;they had now existed for nine days. A few provisions taken from the magazine of Granite Hou before the catastrophe, a little fresh water from the rain whibsp;had fallen in a hollow of the robsp;was all that the unfortunate ists possd. Their last hope, the vesl, had been shattered to pieces. They had no means of quitting the reef; no fire, nor any means of obtaining it. It emed that they must iably perish.
This day, the 18th of Marbsp;there remained only provisions for two days, although they limited their ption to the bare necessaries of life. All their sbsp;and intelligenbsp;could avail them nothing in their prent position. They were in the hand of God.
Cyrus Harding was calm, Gideon Spilett more nervous, and Pencroft, a prey to sullen anger, walked to and fro on the robsp;Herbert did not for a moment quit the engineer''s side, as if demanding from him that assistanbsp;he had no power to give. Neb and Ayrton were resigned to their fate.