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Besides
,
they
hoped
to
find
more
food
on
the
way
.
As
the
glasses
had
been
returned
to
the
watches
of
the
engineer
and
reporter
,
Pencroft
burned
a
little
linen
to
serve
as
tinder
.
As
to
flint
,
that
would
not
be
wanting
in
these
regions
of
Plutonic
origin
.
It
was
half-past
seven
in
the
morning
when
the
explorers
,
armed
with
sticks
,
left
the
Chimneys
.
Following
Pencroft
's
advice
,
it
appeared
best
to
take
the
road
already
traversed
through
the
forest
,
and
to
return
by
another
route
.
It
was
also
the
most
direct
way
to
reach
the
mountain
.
They
turned
the
south
angle
and
followed
the
left
bank
of
the
river
,
which
was
abandoned
at
the
point
where
it
formed
an
elbow
towards
the
southwest
.
The
path
,
already
trodden
under
the
evergreen
trees
,
was
found
,
and
at
nine
o'clock
Cyrus
Harding
and
his
companions
had
reached
the
western
border
of
the
forest
.
The
ground
,
till
then
,
very
little
undulated
,
boggy
at
first
,
dry
and
sandy
afterwards
,
had
a
gentle
slope
,
which
ascended
from
the
shore
towards
the
interior
of
the
country
.
A
few
very
timid
animals
were
seen
under
the
forest-trees
.
Top
quickly
started
them
,
but
his
master
soon
called
him
back
,
for
the
time
had
not
come
to
commence
hunting
;
that
would
be
attended
to
later
.
The
engineer
was
not
a
man
who
would
allow
himself
to
be
diverted
from
his
fixed
idea
.
It
might
even
have
been
said
that
he
did
not
observe
the
country
at
all
,
either
in
its
configuration
or
in
its
natural
productions
,
his
great
aim
being
to
climb
the
mountain
before
him
,
and
therefore
straight
towards
it
he
went
.
At
ten
o'clock
a
halt
of
a
few
minutes
was
made
.
On
leaving
the
forest
,
the
mountain
system
of
the
country
appeared
before
the
explorers
.
The
mountain
was
composed
of
two
cones
;
the
first
,
truncated
at
a
height
of
about
two
thousand
five
hundred
feet
,
was
sustained
by
buttresses
,
which
appeared
to
branch
out
like
the
talons
of
an
immense
claw
set
on
the
ground
.
Between
these
were
narrow
valleys
,
bristling
with
trees
,
the
last
clumps
of
which
rose
to
the
top
of
the
lowest
cone
.
There
appeared
to
be
less
vegetation
on
that
side
of
the
mountain
which
was
exposed
to
the
northeast
,
and
deep
fissures
could
be
seen
which
,
no
doubt
,
were
watercourses
.
On
the
first
cone
rested
a
second
,
slightly
rounded
,
and
placed
a
little
on
one
side
,
like
a
great
round
hat
cocked
over
the
ear
.
A
Scotchman
would
have
said
,
"
His
bonnet
was
a
thocht
ajee
.
"
It
appeared
formed
of
bare
earth
,
here
and
there
pierced
by
reddish
rocks
.
They
wished
to
reach
the
second
cone
,
and
proceeding
along
the
ridge
of
the
spurs
seemed
to
be
the
best
way
by
which
to
gain
it
.
"
We
are
on
volcanic
ground
,
"
Cyrus
Harding
had
said
,
and
his
companions
following
him
began
to
ascend
by
degrees
on
the
back
of
a
spur
,
which
,
by
a
winding
and
consequently
more
accessible
path
,
joined
the
first
plateau
.
The
ground
had
evidently
been
convulsed
by
subterranean
force
.
Here
and
there
stray
blocks
,
numerous
debris
of
basalt
and
pumice-stone
,
were
met
with
.
In
isolated
groups
rose
fir-trees
,
which
,
some
hundred
feet
lower
,
at
the
bottom
of
the
narrow
gorges
,
formed
massive
shades
almost
impenetrable
to
the
sun
's
rays
.
During
the
first
part
of
the
ascent
,
Herbert
remarked
on
the
footprints
which
indicated
the
recent
passage
of
large
animals
.
"
Perhaps
these
beasts
will
not
let
us
pass
by
willingly
,
"
said
Pencroft
.
"
Well
,
"
replied
the
reporter
,
who
had
already
hunted
the
tiger
in
India
,
and
the
lion
in
Africa
,
"
we
shall
soon
learn
how
successfully
to
encounter
them
.
But
in
the
meantime
we
must
be
upon
our
guard
!
"
They
ascended
but
slowly
.
