From that moment to the moment in which he recovered to find himself in the arms of his friends he remembered nothing.
"However," remarked Pencroft, "you must have been thrown on to the beach, and you must have had strength to walk here, since Neb found your footmarks!" "Yes...

of course," replied the engineer, thoughtfully; "and you found no traces of human beings on this coast ?" "Not a trace," replied the reporter; "besides, if by chance you had met with some deliverer there, just in the nick of time, why should he have abandoned you after having saved you from the waves ?" "You are right, my dear Spilett.

Tell me, Neb," added the engineer, turning to his servant, "it was not you who...

you can't have had a moment of unconsciousness...

during which no, that's absurd....