CHAPTER 13

What is found upon Top—Manufacturing Bows and Arrows—A Brick-field—A Pottery—Different Cooking Utensils—The first boiled meat—Wormwood—The Southern Cross—An important astronomical Observation. “Well, captain, where are we going to begin?” asked Pencroft next morning of the engineer. “At the beginning,” replied Cyrus Harding. And in fact, the settlers were compelled to begin “at the very beginning.” They did not possess even the tools necessary for making tools, and they were not even in the condition…