"Besides, what do we want?
Nothing." "If that is not--everything!" replied Pencroft, laughing and shrugging his shoulders.

"But, some day or other, we shall find means of going away!" "Sooner, perhaps, than you imagine, my friends," remarked the engineer, "if Lincoln Island is but a medium distance from an inhabited island, or from a continent.

We shall know in an hour.

I have not a map of the Pacific, but my memory has preserved a very clear recollection of its southern part.

The latitude which I obtained yesterday placed New Zealand to the west of Lincoln Island, and the coast of Chile to the east.