CHAPTER 21

Some Degrees below Zero—Exploring the Marshy Part to the South-east—The Wolf-fox—View of the Sea—A Conversation on the Future of the Pacific Ocean—The incessant Work of the Coral Insects—What our Globe will become—The Chase—Tadorn’s Fens. From this time Pencroft did not let a single day pass without going to visit what he gravely called his “corn-field.” And woe to the insects which dared to venture there! No mercy was shown them. Towards the end of the month of June, after incessant rain, the weathe…