Thus were the two needs of our land to be served by the means to which we had recourse.

For there being no way to settle the difficulty, we vowed to leave the matter to Chance, that great patient arbiter of destinies of which your civilization takes no account, save to reduce it to slavery.
Accordingly each inhabitant of the island took a solemn oath to await, with an open mind free from choice or prejudice, the settlement of the event, certain that the gods would permit the possible.

Five days after this decision our watchers upon the hills sighted a South African transport bound for the Azores to coal.

A hundred miles from our coast she was wrecked, and it was thought that all on board had been lost.

A submarine was ordered to the spot--" "Do you mean," interrupted St.George, "that you were able to see the wreck at that distance ?" "Certainly," said the prince.