CHAPTER 11

At the Summit of the Cone—The Interior of the Crater—Sea all round—No Land in Sight—A Bird’s-eye View of the Coast— Hydrography and Orology—Is the Island inhabited?—Christening the Bays, Gulfs, Capes, Rivers, etc.—Lincoln Island. Half an hour later Cyrus Harding and Herbert had returned to the encampment. The engineer merely told his companions that the land upon which fate had thrown them was an island, and that the next day they would consult. Then each settled himself as well as he could to sleep,…