CHAPTER 9

Bad weather—The hydraulic lift—Manufacture of glass-ware—The bread-tree—Frequent visits to the corral—Increase of the flock —The reporter’s question—Exact position of Lincoln Island— Pencroft’s proposal. The weather changed during the first week of March. There had been a full moon at the commencement of the month, and the heat was excessive. The atmosphere was felt to be full of electricity, and a period of some length of tempestuous weather was to be feared. Indeed, on the 2nd, peals of thunder wer…