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During
these
excursions
,
which
were
not
extended
far
from
the
brick
-
field
,
the
hunters
could
discern
the
recent
passage
of
animals
of
a
large
size
,
armed
with
powerful
claws
,
but
they
could
not
recognize
the
species
.
Cyrus
Harding
advised
them
to
be
very
careful
,
as
the
forest
probably
enclosed
many
dangerous
beasts
.
And
he
did
right
.
Indeed
,
Gideon
Spilett
and
Herbert
one
day
saw
an
animal
which
resembled
a
jaguar
.
Happily
the
creature
did
not
attack
them
,
or
they
might
not
have
escaped
without
a
severe
wound
.
As
soon
as
he
could
get
a
regular
weapon
,
that
is
to
say
,
one
of
the
guns
which
Pencroft
begged
for
,
Gideon
Spilett
resolved
to
make
desperate
war
against
the
ferocious
beasts
,
and
exterminate
them
from
the
island
.
The
Chimneys
during
these
few
days
was
not
made
more
comfortable
,
for
the
engineer
hoped
to
discover
,
or
build
if
necessary
,
a
more
convenient
dwelling
.
They
contented
themselves
with
spreading
moss
and
dry
leaves
on
the
sand
of
the
passages
,
and
on
these
primitive
couches
the
tired
workers
slept
soundly
.
They
also
reckoned
the
days
they
had
passed
on
Lincoln
Island
,
and
from
that
time
kept
a
regular
account
.
The
5th
of
April
,
which
was
Wednesday
,
was
twelve
days
from
the
time
when
the
wind
threw
the
castaways
on
this
shore
.
On
the
6th
of
April
,
at
daybreak
,
the
engineer
and
his
companions
were
collected
in
the
glade
,
at
the
place
where
they
were
going
to
perform
the
operation
of
baking
the
bricks
.
Naturally
this
had
to
be
in
the
open
air
,
and
not
in
a
kiln
,
or
rather
,
the
agglomeration
of
bricks
made
an
enormous
kiln
,
which
would
bake
itself
.
The
fuel
,
made
of
well-prepared
fagots
,
was
laid
on
the
ground
and
surrounded
with
several
rows
of
dried
bricks
,
which
soon
formed
an
enormous
cube
,
to
the
exterior
of
which
they
contrived
air
-
holes
.
The
work
lasted
all
day
,
and
it
was
not
till
the
evening
that
they
set
fire
to
the
fagots
.
No
one
slept
that
night
,
all
watching
carefully
to
keep
up
the
fire
.
The
operation
lasted
forty-eight
hours
,
and
succeeded
perfectly
.
It
then
became
necessary
to
leave
the
smoking
mass
to
cool
,
and
during
this
time
Neb
and
Pencroft
,
guided
by
Cyrus
Harding
,
brought
,
on
a
hurdle
made
of
interlaced
branches
,
loads
of
carbonate
of
lime
and
common
stones
,
which
were
very
abundant
,
to
the
north
of
the
lake
.
These
stones
,
when
decomposed
by
heat
,
made
a
very
strong
quicklime
,
greatly
increased
by
slacking
,
at
least
as
pure
as
if
it
had
been
produced
by
the
calcination
of
chalk
or
marble
.
Mixed
with
sand
the
lime
made
excellent
mortar
.
The
result
of
these
different
works
was
,
that
,
on
the
9th
of
April
,
the
engineer
had
at
his
disposal
a
quantity
of
prepared
lime
and
some
thousands
of
bricks
.
Without
losing
an
instant
,
therefore
,
they
began
the
construction
of
a
kiln
to
bake
the
pottery
,
which
was
indispensable
for
their
domestic
use
.
They
succeeded
without
much
difficulty
.
Five
days
after
,
the
kiln
was
supplied
with
coal
,
which
the
engineer
had
discovered
lying
open
to
the
sky
towards
the
mouth
of
the
Red
Creek
,
and
the
first
smoke
escaped
from
a
chimney
twenty
feet
high
.
The
glade
was
transformed
into
a
manufactory
,
and
Pencroft
was
not
far
wrong
in
believing
that
from
this
kiln
would
issue
all
the
products
of
modern
industry
.
