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. An isolated rock, thirty feet in length, twenty in breadth, scarcely ten from the water’s edge, such was the only solid point which the waves of the Pacific had not engulfed. It was all that remained of the structure of Granite House! The wall had fallen headlong and been…