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The
colonists
had
a
good
supper
that
evening
.
Neb
prepared
some
agouti
soup
,
a
smoked
capybara
ham
,
to
which
was
added
the
boiled
tubercules
of
the
"
caladium
macrorhizum
,
"
an
herbaceous
plant
of
the
arum
family
.
They
had
an
excellent
taste
,
and
were
very
nutritious
,
being
something
similar
to
the
substance
which
is
sold
in
England
under
the
name
of
"
Portland
sago
"
;
they
were
also
a
good
substitute
for
bread
,
which
the
settlers
in
Lincoln
Island
did
not
yet
possess
.
When
supper
was
finished
,
before
sleeping
,
Harding
and
his
companions
went
to
take
the
air
on
the
beach
.
it
was
eight
o'clock
in
the
evening
;
the
night
was
magnificent
.
The
moon
,
which
had
been
full
five
days
before
,
had
not
yet
risen
,
but
the
horizon
was
already
silvered
by
those
soft
,
pale
shades
which
might
be
called
the
dawn
of
the
moon
.
At
the
southern
zenith
glittered
the
circumpolar
constellations
,
and
above
all
the
Southern
Cross
,
which
some
days
before
the
engineer
had
greeted
on
the
summit
of
Mount
Franklin
.
Cyrus
Harding
gazed
for
some
time
at
this
splendid
constellation
,
which
has
at
its
summit
and
at
its
base
two
stars
of
the
first
magnitude
,
at
its
left
arm
a
star
of
the
second
,
and
at
its
right
arm
a
star
of
the
third
magnitude
.
Then
,
after
some
minutes
thought
--
"
Herbert
,
"
he
asked
of
the
lad
,
"
is
not
this
the
15th
of
April
?
"
"
Yes
,
captain
,
"
replied
Herbert
.
"
Well
,
if
I
am
not
mistaken
,
to-morrow
will
be
one
of
the
four
days
in
the
year
in
which
the
real
time
is
identical
with
average
time
;
that
is
to
say
,
my
boy
,
that
to-morrow
,
to
within
some
seconds
,
the
sun
will
pass
the
meridian
just
at
midday
by
the
clocks
.
If
the
weather
is
fine
I
think
that
I
shall
obtain
the
longitude
of
the
island
with
an
approximation
of
some
degrees
.
"
"
Without
instruments
,
without
sextant
?
"
asked
Gideon
Spilett
.
"
Yes
,
"
replied
the
engineer
.
"
Also
,
since
the
night
is
clear
,
I
will
try
,
this
very
evening
,
to
obtain
our
latitude
by
calculating
the
height
of
the
Southern
Cross
,
that
is
,
from
the
southern
pole
above
the
horizon
.
You
understand
,
my
friends
,
that
before
undertaking
the
work
of
installation
in
earnest
it
is
not
enough
to
have
found
out
that
this
land
is
an
island
;
we
must
,
as
nearly
as
possible
,
know
at
what
distance
it
is
situated
,
either
from
the
American
continent
or
Australia
,
or
from
the
principal
archipelagoes
of
the
Pacific
.
"
