CHAPTER 2

First trial of the canoe—A wreck on the coast—Towing—Flotsam Point—Inventory of the case: tools, weapons, instruments, clothes, books, utensils—What Pencroft misses—The Gospel—A verse from the sacred book. On the 9th of October the bark canoe was entirely finished. Pencroft had kept his promise, and a light boat, the shell of which was joined together by the flexible twigs of the crejimba, had been constructed in five days. A seat in the stern, a second seat in the middle to preserve the equilibrium,…