The Wonder Island Boys | Page 4

their own safety. The guns they had made. The hesitation about the trip inland. The hope for another ship. Discussing the probability of meeting the savages. Questions to be decided in building their boat. Possibilities of an island near them. Reasons for that view. A year from the time they sailed from New York. The spring. Planting a garden. Preparing the ground. The buckwheat. Propagation. Wild oats. How cultivated. Budding, grafting and inarching. Seedless fruit. Conclude to utilize the wrecked part of the life-boat as part of the new boat. Size of the new vessel. Its size and weight What is a ship. A brig, a sloop. Single masters. The sails. Different parts of the masts. The bowsprit and boom. The triangular sail.
XVI. DISCOVERY OF THE SAVAGES' HUTS
The hunting expedition. The forest below South River. Suggestions of the Professor concerning the importance of that section. The trail through the dense woods. Wild animals. Different varieties of game. Directing course by the sun. Character of the country. Discovery of native huts. A vegetable garden. The surprising contents of the huts. Accidentally finding paper containing writing. Other articles of interest among the rubbish. A mineral spring. A monogrammed silver cup. The return journey. Discussing the articles found.
XVII. THE GRIM EVIDENCE IN THE HILLS
Trying to decipher the writing traces on the paper. Conclusions. The Professor's journey. Prospecting in the hills. Discovery of numerous fissures in the rocks. A skeleton in one of them. The telltale arrows. Mute evidence of the character of the inhabitants of the island.
XVIII. STRANGE DISCOVERY OF A COMPANION LIFEBOAT
Work on the new boat. Variety of their work. The regular hunting day. The joke on the Professor. Old age. How old age becomes a habit. The discussion on hunting. Deciding where to go. Conclude to visit the forests to the west. Provisioning for the journey. Reaching the edge of the main forest, accompanied by Red Angel. In the proximity of the Falls. Decided to go in that direction. Reach the river. Searching for the spot where the boat was left and from which place it had been taken. No traces of the mooring place. Examining driftwood and debris along river bank. Amazing discovery of one of Investigator's boats. Speculation as to the mystery. Evidence that it came over the Falls. Disappearance of the lockers of the boat, similar to those on their own. Discussion as to the fate of their companions. Decide to seclude the boat. Sudden appearance of Red Angel in excitement. Following him back to the location of the wagon. Disappearance of the yaks and wagon.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Before they had gone 20 feet, a large leopard-like animal sprang transversely across their path"
"George saw his peril and now realized that he could not possibly reach a place of safety"
"'What is this? a party?' said the Professor. 'Yes; a birthday party,' said Harry"
"Red Angel saw George's design, and without saying a word he slowly descended"

LIST OF FIGURES
1. The Orang-outan
2. Types of Arrow-head
3. The Bear
4. Diagram of Their Trip
5. Bevel Square
6. Sighting the Direction
7. Threshing Flail
8. Samples of Bread
9. Air Pocket
10. Normal Crust of the Earth
11. Mountain Upheaval
12. Branch of the Camphor Tree
13. Tanning Vat
14. Serrate Leaf
15. Bi-serrate Leaf
16. Dentate Leaf
17. Crenate Leaf
18. Cave Entrance
19. Vegetation Around Stone
20. Vegetation Around Hole
21. Vanilla Plant
22. The Mysterious Brand on the Yak
23. Measuring Sound Pitch
24. Thermometer
25. Primary Battery
26. Template for Drawing Wire
27. Complete Battery with Connections
28. Human Skull
29. Potter's Wheel
30. Forming Blade
31. The Electric Arc
32. The Chart of the Cave
33. Betel-nut
34. The Giant Ant-eater
35. Chart Showing How the Boys Were Lost
36. Pole Raising
37. Making Sheet Glass
38. Grafting
39. Budding
40. Inarching

EXPLORING THE ISLAND
CHAPTER I
THE FOURTH VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
"I wonder why the yaks are so wild and difficult to handle this morning?" said George, as he stopped the wagon and tried to calm them by soothing words.
At that moment Harry, who was in the lead, sprang back with a cry of alarm, and quietly, but with-evident excitement, whispered: "There are some big animals over to the right!"
The Professor was out of the wagon in an instant and moved forward with Harry. "You would better remain with the team, George," was the Professor's suggestion.
George Mayfield and Harry Crandall, two American boys, attached to a ship training school, had been shipwrecked, in company with an aged professor, on an unknown island, somewhere in the Pacific, over four months prior to the opening of this chapter; and, after a series of adventures, had been able, by ingenious means, to devise many of the necessaries of life from the crude materials which nature furnished them; and they were now on their third voyage of discovery into the unknown land.
For your information, a brief outline is given of a few of the things they had discovered, of some of their adventures, and of what they had made, and why they were now