CHAPTER 19

Recollections of their native land—Probable future—Project for surveying the coasts of the island—Departure on the 16th of April—Sea-view of Reptile End—The basaltic rocks of the western coast—Bad weather—Night comes on—New incident. Two years already! and for two years the colonists had had no communication with their fellow-creatures! They were without news from the civilized world, lost on this island, as completely as if they had been on the most minute star of the celestial hemisphere! What was …