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"
No
,
Pencroft
!
"
"
It
is
the
ball
that
went
through
Herbert
's
chest
,
and
I
promise
you
it
wo
n't
miss
its
mark
!
"
But
this
just
retaliation
would
not
bring
Ayrton
back
to
life
,
and
from
the
examination
of
the
footprints
left
in
the
ground
,
they
must
,
alas
!
conclude
that
all
hopes
of
ever
seeing
him
again
must
be
abandoned
.
That
evening
they
encamped
fourteen
miles
from
Granite
House
,
and
Cyrus
Harding
calculated
that
they
could
not
be
more
than
five
miles
from
Reptile
Point
.
And
indeed
,
the
next
day
the
extremity
of
the
peninsula
was
reached
,
and
the
whole
length
of
the
forest
had
been
traversed
;
but
there
was
nothing
to
indicate
the
retreat
in
which
the
convicts
had
taken
refuge
,
nor
that
,
no
less
secret
,
which
sheltered
the
mysterious
unknown
.
The
next
day
,
the
18th
of
February
,
was
devoted
to
the
exploration
of
all
that
wooded
region
forming
the
shore
from
Reptile
End
to
Falls
River
.
The
colonists
were
able
to
search
this
forest
thoroughly
,
for
,
as
it
was
comprised
between
the
two
shores
of
the
Serpentine
Peninsula
,
it
was
only
from
three
to
four
miles
in
breadth
.
The
trees
,
both
by
their
height
and
their
thick
foliage
,
bore
witness
to
the
vegetative
power
of
the
soil
,
more
astonishing
here
than
in
any
other
part
of
the
island
.
One
might
have
said
that
a
corner
from
the
virgin
forests
of
America
or
Africa
had
been
transported
into
this
temperate
zone
.
This
led
them
to
conclude
that
the
superb
vegetation
found
a
heat
in
this
soil
,
damp
in
its
upper
layer
,
but
warmed
in
the
interior
by
volcanic
fires
,
which
could
not
belong
to
a
temperate
climate
.
The
most
frequently
occurring
trees
were
knaries
and
eucalypti
of
gigantic
dimensions
.
But
the
colonists
'
object
was
not
simply
to
admire
the
magnificent
vegetation
.
They
knew
already
that
in
this
respect
Lincoln
Island
would
have
been
worthy
to
take
the
first
rank
in
the
Canary
group
,
to
which
the
first
name
given
was
that
of
the
Happy
Isles
.
Now
,
alas
!
their
island
no
longer
belonged
to
them
entirely
;
others
had
taken
possession
of
it
,
miscreants
polluted
its
shores
,
and
they
must
be
destroyed
to
the
last
man
.
No
traces
were
found
on
the
western
coast
,
although
they
were
carefully
sought
for
.
No
more
footprints
,
no
more
broken
branches
,
no
more
deserted
camps
.
"
This
does
not
surprise
me
,
"
said
Cyrus
Harding
to
his
companions
.
"
The
convicts
first
landed
on
the
island
in
the
neighborhood
of
Flotsam
Point
,
and
they
immediately
plunged
into
the
Far
West
forests
,
after
crossing
Tadorn
Marsh
.
They
then
followed
almost
the
same
route
that
we
took
on
leaving
Granite
House
.
This
explains
the
traces
we
found
in
the
wood
.
But
,
arriving
on
the
shore
,
the
convicts
saw
at
once
that
they
would
discover
no
suitable
retreat
there
,
and
it
was
then
that
,
going
northwards
again
,
they
came
upon
the
corral
.
"
