This inflammable material was placed in the central chamber at the bottom of a little cavity in the rock, sheltered from all wind and damp.
It was nine o'clock in the morning.

The weather was threatening and the breeze blew from the southeast.

Herbert and Pencroft turned the angle of the Chimneys, not without having cast a look at the smoke which, just at that place, curled round a point of rock: they ascended the left bank of the river.
Arrived at the forest, Pencroft broke from the first tree two stout branches which he transformed into clubs, the ends of which Herbert rubbed smooth on a rock.

Oh! what would they not have given for a knife! The two hunters now advanced among the long grass, following the bank.
From the turning which directed its course to the southwest, the river narrowed gradually and the channel lay between high banks, over which the trees formed a double arch.

Pencroft, lest they should lose themselves, resolved to follow the course of the stream, which would always lead them back to the point from which they started.