The Wonder Island Boys | Page 3

the boat.
Recovering their life-boat. Visit to Observation Hill. Hunting for the

lost flagpole and flag. Wreckage of a ship's boat discovered. The
Professor sent for. Ascertain it is not part of their wrecked boat.
Gathering up portions of the boat. Amazing discovery of skull and
skeleton. Methods of determining age. Condition of the skull and teeth.
Carrying the remains to the Cataract. The funeral. The seven ages in the
growth of man. Sadness. The skeleton at the feast. Why is death
necessary. One of the many reasons.
XII. THE DISTANT SHIP AND ITS DISAPPEARANCE
The endive. Chicory. The principle in the plant. The root. Curious
manner of preparing it. A surprise for Harry. Making clay crocks. How
to glaze or vitrify them. The use of salt in the process. A potter's wheel.
Uses of the wheel. Its antiquity. Inspecting the electric battery. How it
is connected up. Peculiarities in designating parts of the battery.
Making the first spark. Necessary requirements for making a lighting
plant. The arc light. What arc is and means. The incandescent light.
Why the filament in bulb does not readily burn out. Oxygen as a
supporter of combustion. Carbon, how made. Essential of the invention
of the arc light. Determine again to explore cave. The lamps, spears and
other equipment. Exciting discovery of a sail. Signaling the ship. The
ship disappears. Discouragement. Determine to make a large flag and
erect a new flagpole. Visiting the cave. Exploring it. Mounting one of
the lamps on ledge for safety. Water not found where it was on
previous visit. Discovery of a large domed chamber. Bringing forward
the light on the ledge. Entering the chamber. Disappearance of the light
from the ledge. The outlet of the chamber. Searching for the lost light.
Determine to chart the cave. Steps taken. Surveying methods.
Substitutes for paper and pencil. Soot. The base, the angle, and the
projecting lines. How the side walls were charted.
XIII. THE EXCITING HUNT INT HE FOREST
An eventful day. Accounting for the disappearance of the water in the
cave. The animal in the cave. Subterranean connection with the sea.
Starting to make the large flag. Regulation flag determined on. The
stripes and their colors, and how arranged. Their significance. The blue
field and how studded. Its proportional size. How the yellow ramie

cloth was made white. The bleaching process. Chloride of lime. The
red color. The madder plant. Its powerful dyeing qualities. Coffee. The
surprise party for Harry. Chicory leaves as a salad. Exhilarative
substances and beverages. The cocoa leaf. Betel-nut. Pepper plants.
Thorn apples. The ledum and hop. Narcotic fungus. "Baby's"
experiment with the red dye test sample. Test samples in dyeing.
Color-metric tests in analyzing chemicals. Reagents. The meaning and
their use. Bitter-sweet. Blue dye. Copper and lime as coloring
substance. The completed flag. A hunting trip for the pole. Making a
trailer. A pole fifty feet long determined on. Tethering the yaks at the
river. Searching for pole. The shell-bark hickory. The giant ant-killer.
His peculiarities. Weight of hickory. Weight of the pole. Problem to
convey it to the river. Determine to get the yaks. Swimming them
across the river. The Professor absent on their return. Searching for the
Professor. A shot heard. Going in the direction of the shot. Another
shot from vicinity of the team. Returning in the direction of last shot.
Find the Professor with team on way to river. How they made a circle
without knowing it. A lesson in judgment.
XIV. THE RAISING OF THE FLAG, AND ANGEL'S
PART IN IT
Absence of Red Angel. The search. Sorrow at his flight. The morning
breakfast. Reappearance of Red Angel with nuts. The honey pot and
Red Angel. The voluntary exchange of nut for honey. How the orang
reasoned. Preparation for pole-raising day. The capstans. The ropes and
forked poles. The Angel invited to attend. How the pole was raised.
Preparation to hoist the flag. The interference of Red Angel. How he
mounted the pole. How honey was no temptation. George's discovery
that Angel had eaten all the honey. The ceremony of raising the flag.
Trying to sing the Star-Spangled Banner. The failure. Taking
possession of the island in the name of the United States. Significance
of the act of taking possession. Heraldry and the bending of the flag on
the halliards. The banner and flag in ancient times. Leaving the flag at
half-mast. The banner in the Bible. The necessity for making glass. Its
early origin. The crystal of the ancients. What it is made of. The

blowing process. An acid and an alkali. Sand as an acid. Lime, soda,
and potash as alkalis. The result when united. Transparent and
translucent. Opaqueness. Making sheet glass. Why the eye cannot see
through rough glass. How sheets are prevented from being cracked.
XV. MYSTERIOUS