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Then
the
carpenters
became
basket-makers
,
and
they
did
not
succeed
badly
in
this
new
manufacture
.
At
the
point
of
the
lake
which
projected
to
the
north
,
they
had
discovered
an
osier-bed
in
which
grew
a
large
number
of
purple
osiers
.
Before
the
rainy
season
,
Pencroft
and
Herbert
had
cut
down
these
useful
shrubs
,
and
their
branches
,
well
prepared
,
could
now
be
effectively
employed
.
The
first
attempts
were
somewhat
crude
,
but
in
consequence
of
the
cleverness
and
intelligence
of
the
workmen
,
by
consulting
,
and
recalling
the
models
which
they
had
seen
,
and
by
emulating
each
other
,
the
possessions
of
the
colony
were
soon
increased
by
several
baskets
of
different
sizes
.
The
storeroom
was
provided
with
them
,
and
in
special
baskets
Neb
placed
his
collection
of
rhizomes
,
stone-pine
almonds
,
etc.
.
During
the
last
week
of
the
month
of
August
the
weather
moderated
again
.
The
temperature
fell
a
little
,
and
the
tempest
abated
.
The
colonists
sallied
out
directly
.
There
was
certainly
two
feet
of
snow
on
the
shore
,
but
they
were
able
to
walk
without
much
difficulty
on
the
hardened
surface
.
Cyrus
Harding
and
his
companions
climbed
Prospect
Heights
.
What
a
change
!
The
woods
,
which
they
had
left
green
,
especially
in
the
part
at
which
the
firs
predominated
,
had
disappeared
under
a
uniform
color
.
All
was
white
,
from
the
summit
of
Mount
Franklin
to
the
shore
,
the
forests
,
the
plains
,
the
lake
,
the
river
.
The
waters
of
the
Mercy
flowed
under
a
roof
of
ice
,
which
,
at
each
rising
and
ebbing
of
the
tide
,
broke
up
with
loud
crashes
.
Numerous
birds
fluttered
over
the
frozen
surface
of
the
lake
.
Ducks
and
snipe
,
teal
and
guillemots
were
assembled
in
thousands
.
The
rocks
among
which
the
cascade
flowed
were
bristling
with
icicles
.
One
might
have
said
that
the
water
escaped
by
a
monstrous
gargoyle
,
shaped
with
all
the
imagination
of
an
artist
of
the
Renaissance
.
As
to
the
damage
caused
by
the
storm
in
the
forest
,
that
could
not
as
yet
be
ascertained
;
they
would
have
to
wait
till
the
snowy
covering
was
dissipated
.
Gideon
Spilett
,
Pencroft
,
and
Herbert
did
not
miss
this
opportunity
of
going
to
visit
their
traps
.
They
did
not
find
them
easily
,
under
the
snow
with
which
they
were
covered
.
They
had
also
to
be
careful
not
to
fall
into
one
or
other
of
them
,
which
would
have
been
both
dangerous
and
humiliating
;
to
be
taken
in
their
own
snares
!
But
happily
they
avoided
this
unpleasantness
,
and
found
their
traps
perfectly
intact
.
No
animal
had
fallen
into
them
,
and
yet
the
footprints
in
the
neighborhood
were
very
numerous
,
among
others
,
certain
very
clear
marks
of
claws
.
Herbert
did
not
hesitate
to
affirm
that
some
animal
of
the
feline
species
had
passed
there
,
which
justified
the
engineer
's
opinion
that
dangerous
beasts
existed
in
Lincoln
Island
.
These
animals
doubtless
generally
lived
in
the
forests
of
the
Far
West
,
but
pressed
by
hunger
,
they
had
ventured
as
far
as
Prospect
Heights
.
Perhaps
they
had
smelled
out
the
inhabitants
of
Granite
House
.
"
Now
,
what
are
these
feline
creatures
?
"
asked
Pencroft
.
"
They
are
tigers
,
"
replied
Herbert
.
"
I
thought
those
beasts
were
only
found
in
hot
countries
?
"
"
On
the
new
continent
,
"
replied
the
lad
,
"
they
are
found
from
Mexico
to
the
Pampas
of
Buenos
Aires
.
Now
,
as
Lincoln
Island
is
nearly
under
the
same
latitude
as
the
provinces
of
La
Plata
,
it
is
not
surprising
that
tigers
are
to
be
met
with
in
it
.
"
"
Well
,
we
must
look
out
for
them
,
"
replied
Pencroft
.
However
,
the
snow
soon
disappeared
,
quickly
dissolving
under
the
influence
of
the
rising
temperature
.
Rain
fell
,
and
the
sheet
of
white
soon
vanished
.
Notwithstanding
the
bad
weather
,
the
settlers
renewed
their
stores
of
different
things
,
stone-pine
almonds
,
rhizomes
,
syrup
from
the
maple-tree
,
for
the
vegetable
part
;
rabbits
from
the
warren
,
agouties
,
and
kangaroos
for
the
animal
part
.
This
necessitated
several
excursions
into
the
forest
,
and
they
found
that
a
great
number
of
trees
had
been
blown
down
by
the
last
hurricane
.
Pencroft
and
Neb
also
pushed
with
the
cart
as
far
as
the
vein
of
coal
,
and
brought
back
several
tons
of
fuel
.
They
saw
in
passing
that
the
pottery
kiln
had
been
severely
damaged
by
the
wind
,
at
least
six
feet
of
it
having
been
blown
off
.
