They will impress themselves better on our memory, and at the same time will be more practical.

The shape of the island is so strange that we shall not be troubled to imagine what it resembles.

As to the streams which we do not know as yet, in different parts of the forest which we shall explore later, the creeks which afterwards will be discovered, we can christen them as we find them.

What do you think, my friends ?" The engineer's proposal was unanimously agreed to by his companions.

The island was spread out under their eyes like a map, and they had only to give names to all its angles and points.