CHAPTER 12

Regulating the Watches—Pencroft is satisfied—A suspicious Smoke —Course of Red Creek—The Flora of Lincoln Island—The Fauna— Mountain Pheasants—Chasing Kangaroos—An Agouti—Lake Grant— Return to the Chimneys. They now began the descent of the mountain. Climbing down the crater, they went round the cone and reached their encampment of the previous night. Pencroft thought it must be breakfast-time, and the watches of the reporter and engineer were therefore consulted to find out the hour. That of Gideon …