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Cyrus
Harding
proposed
that
they
should
return
to
the
western
shore
of
the
lake
,
where
the
day
before
he
had
noticed
the
clayey
ground
of
which
he
possessed
a
specimen
.
They
therefore
followed
the
bank
of
the
Mercy
,
traversed
Prospect
Heights
,
and
alter
a
walk
of
five
miles
or
more
they
reached
a
glade
,
situated
two
hundred
feet
from
Lake
Grant
.
On
the
way
Herbert
had
discovered
a
tree
,
the
branches
of
which
the
Indians
of
South
America
employ
for
making
their
bows
.
It
was
the
crejimba
,
of
the
palm
family
,
which
does
not
bear
edible
fruit
.
Long
straight
branches
were
cut
,
the
leaves
stripped
off
;
it
was
shaped
,
stronger
in
the
middle
,
more
slender
at
the
extremities
,
and
nothing
remained
to
be
done
but
to
find
a
plant
fit
to
make
the
bow-string
.
This
was
the
"
hibiscus
heterophyllus
,
"
which
furnishes
fibers
of
such
remarkable
tenacity
that
they
have
been
compared
to
the
tendons
of
animals
.
Pencroft
thus
obtained
bows
of
tolerable
strength
,
for
which
he
only
wanted
arrows
.
These
were
easily
made
with
straight
stiff
branches
,
without
knots
,
but
the
points
with
which
they
must
be
armed
,
that
is
to
say
,
a
substance
to
serve
in
lieu
of
iron
,
could
not
be
met
with
so
easily
.
But
Pencroft
said
,
that
having
done
his
part
of
the
work
,
chance
would
do
the
rest
.
The
settlers
arrived
on
the
ground
which
had
been
discovered
the
day
before
.
Being
composed
of
the
sort
of
clay
which
is
used
for
making
bricks
and
tiles
,
it
was
very
useful
for
the
work
in
question
.
There
was
no
great
difficulty
in
it
.
It
was
enough
to
scour
the
clay
with
sand
,
then
to
mold
the
bricks
and
bake
them
by
the
heat
of
a
wood
fire
.
Generally
bricks
are
formed
in
molds
,
but
the
engineer
contented
himself
with
making
them
by
hand
.
All
that
day
and
the
day
following
were
employed
in
this
work
.
The
clay
,
soaked
in
water
,
was
mixed
by
the
feet
and
hands
of
the
manipulators
,
and
then
divided
into
pieces
of
equal
size
.
A
practiced
workman
can
make
,
without
a
machine
,
about
ten
thousand
bricks
in
twelve
hours
;
but
in
their
two
days
work
the
five
brickmakers
on
Lincoln
Island
had
not
made
more
than
three
thousand
,
which
were
ranged
near
each
other
,
until
the
time
when
their
complete
desiccation
would
permit
them
to
be
used
in
building
the
oven
,
that
is
to
say
,
in
three
or
four
days
.
It
was
on
the
2nd
of
April
that
Harding
had
employed
himself
in
fixing
the
orientation
of
the
island
,
or
,
in
other
words
,
the
precise
spot
where
the
sun
rose
.
The
day
before
he
had
noted
exactly
the
hour
when
the
sun
disappeared
beneath
the
horizon
,
making
allowance
for
the
refraction
.
This
morning
he
noted
,
no
less
exactly
,
the
hour
at
which
it
reappeared
.
Between
this
setting
and
rising
twelve
hours
,
twenty-four
minutes
passed
.
Then
,
six
hours
,
twelve
minutes
after
its
rising
,
the
sun
on
this
day
would
exactly
pass
the
meridian
and
the
point
of
the
sky
which
it
occupied
at
this
moment
would
be
the
north
.
At
the
said
hour
,
Cyrus
marked
this
point
,
and
putting
in
a
line
with
the
sun
two
trees
which
would
serve
him
for
marks
,
he
thus
obtained
an
invariable
meridian
for
his
ulterior
operations
.
The
settlers
employed
the
two
days
before
the
oven
was
built
in
collecting
fuel
.
Branches
were
cut
all
round
the
glade
,
and
they
picked
up
all
the
fallen
wood
under
the
trees
.
They
were
also
able
to
hunt
with
greater
success
,
since
Pencroft
now
possessed
some
dozen
arrows
armed
with
sharp
points
.
It
was
Top
who
had
famished
these
points
,
by
bringing
in
a
porcupine
,
rather
inferior
eating
,
but
of
great
value
,
thanks
to
the
quills
with
which
it
bristled
.
These
quills
were
fixed
firmly
at
the
ends
of
the
arrows
,
the
flight
of
which
was
made
more
certain
by
some
cockatoos
'
feathers
.
The
reporter
and
Herbert
soon
became
very
skilful
archers
.
Game
of
all
sorts
in
consequence
abounded
at
the
Chimneys
,
capybaras
,
pigeons
,
agouties
,
grouse
,
etc.
.
The
greater
part
of
these
animals
were
killed
in
the
part
of
the
forest
on
the
left
bank
of
the
Mercy
,
to
which
they
gave
the
name
of
Jacamar
Wood
,
in
remembrance
of
the
bird
which
Pencroft
and
Herbert
had
pursued
when
on
their
first
exploration
.
This
game
was
eaten
fresh
,
but
they
preserved
some
capybara
hams
,
by
smoking
them
above
a
fire
of
green
wood
,
after
having
perfumed
them
with
sweet-smelling
leaves
.
However
,
this
food
,
although
very
strengthening
,
was
always
roast
upon
roast
,
and
the
party
would
have
been
delighted
to
hear
some
soup
bubbling
on
the
hearth
,
but
they
must
wait
till
a
pot
could
be
made
,
and
,
consequently
,
till
the
oven
was
built
.
