CHAPTER 20

An isolated rock in the Pacific—The last refuge of the colonists of
Lincoln Island—Death their only prospect—Unexpected succour—Why and how
it arrives—A last kindness—An island on terra firma—The tomb of Captain
Prince Dakkar Nemo.

Illustrations
Jules Férat

=PART 1. DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS=
The castaways
Land at last
Gideon Spilett
A daring proposal
The rendezvous
“They listened, they cried out, they sought to hear some great cry.”
Not mussels, but lithodomes
The granite cavern
Rock-pigeons
Neb’s despair
A cheerful flame sprang up
In the forest
Fowl-fishing
Watching the storm
It must be Top!
Dead or Alive?
“Bring the Captain’s litter”
The return with the Captain
A fruitless attempt
Top engaged in a struggle with the capybara
“Herbert! Neb! Look!” he shouted.
Climbing the mountain
It was the mouth of the crater
Naming the island
Sea, sea everywhere!
Towards ten o’clock the little band descended the last declivities of
Mount Franklin
Smoke!
Preparing the supper
Brick-making
The Pottery
The settlers turned washerwomen
Calculating the height of the cliff
An interesting scientific operation
The settlers advanced cautiously
A seal hunt
Primitive bellows
A disagreeable recontre
Top’s strange adventure
“Here is nitro-glycerine!”
Preparing the mine
An exciting moment
Exporing the cavern
Granite House
Entrance to Granite House
The rabbit warren
There would never be any want of water at Granite House
Lecture on a grain of corn
A winter exploration
Beasts which are good for nothing
From the top of Granite House
A cascade of ice
It was a leaden bullet

=PART 2. ABANDONED=

Map of Lincoln Island
Turning a turtle
Flotsam and Jetsam
Unpacking the marvellous chest
Pencroft’s superstition
Is it tobacco?
The halt for breakfast
Denizens of the forest
The sea
At that moment a shot struck the Jaguar between the eyes and it fell dead
“Now there’s something to explain the bullet!” exclaimed Pencroft
A wreck in the air
There was no longer a ladder!
The invaders of Granite House
Capturing the orang
Engaging the new servant
Building the bridge
Pencroft’s scarecrows
The settler’s new shirts
Jup passed most of his time in the kitchen, trying to imitate Neb
Pencroft to the rescue
The Glass-Blowers
The verandah on the edge of Prospect Heights
The dockyard
A valuable prize
Pencroft has nothing left to wish for
The messenger
Winter evenings in Granite House
He saw nothing suspicious
Top visiting the invalid
The trial trip
“Luff, Pencroft, luff!”
The departure
Nearing the island
“A hut!”
Herbert in danger
“A light! a light!”
“Poor fellow!” murmured the engineer
The experiment
“Who are you?” he asked in a hollow voice
Now for a good wind
He seized the jaguar’s throat with one powerful hand
The stranger
The stranger’s story
“Here is my hand!” said the engineer
The engineer at work
Jup sitting for his portrait
The snowy sheet arose and dispersed in the air
Returning from a sporting excursion
Another mystery
The photographic negative

=PART 3. THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND=

A sail in sight
“The black flag!” he exclaimed.
Ayrton hoisting himself on to the cutwater
Ayrton boards the pirate
“What are you doing here?”
He leapt over the bulwarks into the sea
Ayrton and Pencroft waited till they were within range
The Chimneys attacked
The brig, raised on a water-spout, split in two
“That is what I have been, Pencroft.”
In the hold of the pirate brig
The cylinder is all that remains of a torpedo
Pencroft polishing the guns
At work on the plateau
The telegraph post thrown down
Herbert shot
Pencroft’s alarm for Herbert
Top despatched with a message to Neb
Pencroft watching over Herbert
Spilett and Top reconnoitring
Starting from the corral
Herbert on the lift
Sulphate of quinine
The convalescent
The last to leave the Granite House
On watch in the forest
Spilett and Pencroft approach the corral
“Dead!” cried Ayrton
Five corpses stretched on the bank
The cavern in the mountain
Searching for the genius of the island
They visited the gulf
Gideon Spilett wants a newspaper
Watching the summit of Mount Franklin
The colonists remained silently crouching in a deep hollow
Entering the mysterious cavern
Discovery of the “Nautilus”
First interview with the genius of the island
The great unknown relates his history
Last moments of Captain Nemo
Death of Captain Nemo
Sinking of the “Nautilus”
Listening to the rumbling of the volcano
Cyrus Harding watching the eruption
The volcano wall in Dakkar Grotto
The colonists took shelter in the borders of Jacamar Wood
The torrent precipitated itself into Lake Grant
The explosion
The “Duncan”

ILLUSTRATIONS
N. C. Wyeth

THE CASTAWAYS AWAIT THE LIFTING OF THE FOG
While the gaze of the reporter and Neb were cast upon the ocean,
the sailor and Herbert looked eagerly for the coast in the west
THE RESCUE OF CAPTAIN HARDING
However, after traveling for two hours, fatigue overcame him,
and he slept
MAROONED
The island was displayed under their eyes, like a plan in relief
with different tints, green for the forests, yellow for the
sand, blue for the water
TOP IS SAVED FROM THE DUGONG
Thrown in the air by some unknown power, he rose ten feet above
the surface of the lake
THE SEAL HUNT
The seals were numerous, and the hunters, armed with their
iron-tipped spears, easily killed half-a-docen
THE DISCOVERY OF THE CHEST
Pencroft was not mistaken. Two barrels were there, half buried
in the sand, but still firmly attached to a large chest
THE CAPTURE OF THE ORANG
Nevertheless, they threw themselves on the orang, who defended
himself gallantly, but was soon overpowered and bound
THE COURIER OF THE AIR
This little bag was fastened to the neck of the albatross . . .;
then liberty was given to this swift courier of the air
THE WILD MAN OF TABOR ISLAND
They did well to hasten, for at a turn of the path near a
clearing they saw the lad thrown on the ground and in the grasp
of a savage being, apparently a gigantic ape, who was about to
do him some great harm
THE BONADVENTURE
Every caprice of nature, still more varied than those of the
imagination, appeared on this grand coast, which extended over a
length of eight or nine miles
AYRTON’S FIGHT WITH THE PIRATES
Ayrton was on deck in two bounds, and three seconds later,
having discharged his last barrel in the face of a pirate who
was about to seize him by the throat, he leaped over the
bulwarks into the sea
CAPTAIN HARDING SLAYS A CONVICT
In a few seconds, before he had even time to fire his second
barrel, he fell, struck to the heart by Harding’s dagger, more
sure even than his gun
CAPTAIN NEMO
At these words the reclining figure rose, and the electric light
fell upon his countenance
THE LAST HOPE
On this barren rock they had now existed for nine days