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Glenarvan
was
neither
surprised
nor
vexed
at
the
reply
;
indeed
,
his
object
in
asking
was
rather
to
establish
the
fact
that
Captain
Grant
had
not
been
there
than
that
he
had
.
This
done
,
they
were
ready
to
proceed
on
their
voyage
next
day
.
They
rambled
about
the
island
till
evening
,
as
its
appearance
was
very
inviting
Its
FAUNA
and
FLORA
,
however
,
were
poor
in
the
extreme
.
The
only
specimens
of
quadrupeds
,
birds
,
fish
and
cetacea
were
a
few
wild
boars
,
stormy
petrels
,
albatrosses
,
perch
and
seals
.
Here
and
there
thermal
springs
and
chalybeate
waters
escaped
from
the
black
lava
,
and
thin
dark
vapors
rose
above
the
volcanic
soil
.
Some
of
these
springs
were
very
hot
.
John
Mangles
held
his
thermometer
in
one
of
them
,
and
found
the
temperature
was
176
degrees
Fahrenheit
.
Fish
caught
in
the
sea
a
few
yards
off
,
cooked
in
five
minutes
in
these
all
but
boiling
waters
,
a
fact
which
made
Paganel
resolve
not
to
attempt
to
bathe
in
them
.
Toward
evening
,
after
a
long
promenade
,
Glenarvan
and
his
party
bade
adieu
to
the
good
old
M.
Viot
,
and
returned
to
the
yacht
,
wishing
him
all
the
happiness
possible
on
his
desert
island
,
and
receiving
in
return
the
old
man
's
blessing
on
their
expedition
.
ON
the
7th
of
December
,
at
three
A.
M.
,
the
Duncan
lay
puffing
out
her
smoke
in
the
little
harbor
ready
to
start
,
and
a
few
minutes
afterward
the
anchor
was
lifted
,
and
the
screw
set
in
motion
.
By
eight
o'clock
,
when
the
passengers
came
on
deck
,
the
Amsterdam
Island
had
almost
disappeared
from
view
behind
the
mists
of
the
horizon
.
This
was
the
last
halting-place
on
the
route
,
and
nothing
now
was
between
them
and
the
Australian
coast
but
three
thousand
miles
'
distance
.
Should
the
west
wind
continue
but
a
dozen
days
longer
,
and
the
sea
remain
favorable
,
the
yacht
would
have
reached
the
end
of
her
voyage
.
Mary
Grant
and
her
brother
could
not
gaze
without
emotion
at
the
waves
through
which
the
Duncan
was
speeding
her
course
,
when
they
thought
that
these
very
same
waves
must
have
dashed
against
the
prow
of
the
Britannia
but
a
few
days
before
her
shipwreck
.
Here
,
perhaps
,
Captain
Grant
,
with
a
disabled
ship
and
diminished
crew
,
had
struggled
against
the
tremendous
hurricanes
of
the
Indian
Ocean
,
and
felt
himself
driven
toward
the
coast
with
irresistible
force
.
The
Captain
pointed
out
to
Mary
the
different
currents
on
the
ship
's
chart
,
and
explained
to
her
their
constant
direction
.
Among
others
there
was
one
running
straight
to
the
Australian
continent
,
and
its
action
is
equally
felt
in
the
Atlantic
and
Pacific
.
It
was
doubtless
against
this
that
the
Britannia
,
dismasted
and
rudderless
,
had
been
unable
to
contend
,
and
consequently
been
dashed
against
the
coast
,
and
broken
in
pieces
.
A
difficulty
about
this
,
however
,
presented
itself
.
The
last
intelligence
of
Captain
Grant
was
from
Callao
on
the
30th
of
May
,
1862
,
as
appeared
in
the
Mercantile
and
Shipping
Gazette
.
"
How
then
was
it
possible
that
on
the
7th
of
June
,
only
eight
days
after
leaving
the
shores
of
Peru
,
that
the
Britannia
could
have
found
herself
in
the
Indian
Ocean
?
But
to
this
,
Paganel
,
who
was
consulted
on
the
subject
,
found
a
very
plausible
solution
.
It
was
one
evening
,
about
six
days
after
their
leaving
Amsterdam
Island
,
when
they
were
all
chatting
together
on
the
poop
,
that
the
above-named
difficulty
was
stated
by
Glenarvan
.
Paganel
made
no
reply
,
but
went
and
fetched
the
document
.
After
perusing
it
,
he
still
remained
silent
,
simply
shrugging
his
shoulders
,
as
if
ashamed
of
troubling
himself
about
such
a
trifle
.
"
Come
,
my
good
friend
,
"
said
Glenarvan
,
"
at
least
give
us
an
answer
.
"
