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Like
true
settlers
,
the
colonists
spared
the
largest
and
most
beautiful
trees
,
which
would
besides
have
cost
immense
labor
to
fell
,
and
the
small
ones
only
were
sacrificed
,
but
the
result
was
that
the
road
took
a
very
winding
direction
,
and
lengthened
itself
by
numerous
detours
.
During
the
day
Herbert
discovered
several
new
specimens
not
before
met
with
in
the
island
,
such
as
the
tree-fern
,
with
its
leaves
spread
out
like
the
waters
of
a
fountain
,
locust-trees
,
on
the
long
pods
of
which
the
onagers
browsed
greedily
,
and
which
supplied
a
sweet
pulp
of
excellent
flavor
.
There
,
too
,
the
colonists
again
found
groups
of
magnificent
kauries
,
their
cylindrical
trunks
,
crowded
with
a
cone
of
verdure
,
rising
to
a
height
of
two
hundred
feet
.
These
were
the
tree-kings
of
New
Zealand
,
as
celebrated
as
the
cedars
of
Lebanon
.
As
to
the
fauna
,
there
was
no
addition
to
those
species
already
known
to
the
hunters
.
Nevertheless
,
they
saw
,
though
unable
to
get
near
them
,
a
couple
of
those
large
birds
peculiar
to
Australia
,
a
sort
of
cassowary
,
called
emu
,
five
feet
in
height
,
and
with
brown
plumage
,
which
belong
to
the
tribe
of
waders
.
Top
darted
after
them
as
fast
as
his
four
legs
could
carry
him
,
but
the
emus
distanced
him
with
ease
,
so
prodigious
was
their
speed
.
As
to
the
traces
left
by
the
convicts
,
a
few
more
were
discovered
.
Some
footprints
found
near
an
apparently
recently
extinguished
fire
were
attentively
examined
by
the
settlers
.
By
measuring
them
one
after
the
other
,
according
to
their
length
and
breadth
,
the
marks
of
five
men
's
feet
were
easily
distinguished
.
The
five
convicts
had
evidently
camped
on
this
spot
;
but
,
--
and
this
was
the
object
of
so
minute
an
examination
,
--
a
sixth
footprint
could
not
be
discovered
,
which
in
that
case
would
have
been
that
of
Ayrton
.
"
Ayrton
was
not
with
them
!
"
said
Herbert
.
"
No
,
"
answered
Pencroft
,
"
and
if
he
was
not
with
them
,
it
was
because
the
wretches
had
already
murdered
him
!
but
then
these
rascals
have
not
a
den
to
which
they
may
be
tracked
like
tigers
!
"
"
No
,
"
replied
the
reporter
,
"
it
is
more
probable
that
they
wander
at
random
,
and
it
is
their
interest
to
rove
about
until
the
time
when
they
will
be
masters
of
the
island
!
"
"
The
masters
of
the
island
!
"
exclaimed
the
sailor
;
"
the
masters
of
the
island
!
...
"
he
repeated
,
and
his
voice
was
choked
,
as
if
his
throat
was
seized
in
an
iron
grasp
Then
in
a
calmer
tone
,
"
Do
you
know
,
Captain
Harding
,
"
said
he
,
"
what
the
ball
is
which
I
have
rammed
into
my
gun
?
"
