If these brave men had been told that a volcanic eruption would destroy the land, that this land would be engulfed in the depths of the Pacific, they would have imperturbably replied,-- "Cyrus is here!" While in the palanquin, however, the engineer had again relapsed into unconsciousness, which the jolting to which he had been subjected during his journey had brought on, so that they could not now appeal to his ingenuity.

The supper must necessarily be very meager.

In fact, all the grouse flesh had been consumed, and there no longer existed any means of cooking more game.

Besides, the couroucous which had been reserved had disappeared.

They must consider what was to be done.
First of all, Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage.