The storm of 1865 — Crisis in the sky — A balloon swept along in a waterspout — The torn casing — Nothing but the sea in sight — Five passengers — What occurred in the basket — A coast on the horizon — The denouement of the drama.
An episode of the Civil War — The engineer Cyrus Smith — Gideon Spilett — The Negro Neb — The sailor Pencroff — Young Herbert — An unexpected proposition — Rendezvous at ten o’clock in the evening — Departure in the storm.
Five o’clock in the evening — The missing person — Neb’s despair — Search to the north — The islet — A wretched night of anguish — The morning fog — Neb swims — View of the land — Fording the channel.
Lithodomes — The river’s mouth — The "Chimneys" — Continuation of the search — Evergreen forest — Providing fuel — Waiting for the ebb — On the heights — The raft of wood — Return to the shore.
Arrangement of the Chimneys — The important question of fire — The box of matches — Search on the shore — Return of the reporter and Neb — A single match! — A crackling fireplace — The first supper — The first night on land.
The inventory of the castaways — Nothing — Burnt linen — An excursion in the forest — Evergreen flora — The jacamar escapes — Trace of wild beasts — The couroucous — Grouse — A curious fishing line.
The reporter’s reflections — Supper — Neb has not yet returned — A bad night coming on — A frightful storm — Departure during the night — Struggling against the rain and the wind — Eight miles from the first encampment.
Is Cyrus Smith living? — Neb’s recital — Footprints — An unresolved question — Cyrus Smith’s first words — The identification of footprints — Return to the Chimneys — Pencroff overwhelmed.
Cyrus is here — Pencroff’s endeavors — Rubbed wood — Island or continent? — The engineer’s plans — Where in the Pacific Ocean? — In the depth of the forest — The pine kernel — Hunting capybara — A smoke that augurs well.
The engineer’s invention — The question that preoccupies Cyrus Smith — The departure for the mountain — The forest — Volcanic soil — Tragopans — Wild sheep — The first plateau — The encampment for the night — The summit of the cone.
At the summit of the cone — The interior of the crater — The sea all around — No land in sight — Bird’s eye view of the shore — Hydrography and orography — Is the island inhabited? — Naming the bays, gulfs, capes, rivers, etc. — Lincoln Island.
Setting the watches — Pencroff is satisfied — A suspicious smoke — The course of Red Creek — The flora of Lincoln Island — The fauna — Mountain pheasants — Pursuing kangaroos — Agouti — Lake Grant — Return to the chimneys.
What is found on Top — Making bows and arrows — A brickyard — The kiln for pottery — Various kitchen utensils — The first broth — Wormwood — The southern cross — An important astronomical observation.
The measurement of the granite wall — An application of the theorem of similar triangles — The latitude of the island — An excursion to the north — An oyster bed — Future projects — The sun’s passage on the meridian — The coordinates of Lincoln Island.
Wintering is definitely decided — The metallurgical question — Exploration of Safety Island — Seal Hunt — Capture of an echidna — The koala — The so — called Catalan Method — Making iron — How to obtain steel.
The question of a dwelling is treated anew — Pencroff’s fantasies — An exploration to the north of the lake — The northern border of the plateau — Serpents — The extremity of the lake — Top’s uneasiness — Top swimming — A combat under the waters — The dugong.
A visit to the lake — An indication of the current — Cyrus Smith’s plans — The fat from the dugong — Using pyritic schist — Iron sulfate — How glycerin is made — Soap — Saltpeter — Sulphuric acid — Nitric acid — The new falls.
Pencroff no longer doubts anything — The old overflow of the lake — A subterranean descent — The passage through the granite — Top disappears — The central cavern — The lower well — Mystery — A blow from the pick — The return.
Cyrus Smith’s plan — The front of Granite House — The cord ladder — Pencroff’s daydreams — Aromatic herbs — A natural warren — Diverting the water for the needs of the new dwelling — The view from the windows of Granite House.
The rainy season — The question of clothing — A hunt for seals — Making candles — Work inside Granite House — Two bridges — Return visit to the oyster bed — What Herbert finds in his pocket.
Several degrees below zero — Exploration of the marshy part of the southeast — The colpeos — View of the sea — A conversation on the future of the Pacific Ocean — The incessant work of the infusoria — What will become of the globe — The hunt — Tadorn’s marsh.
Traps — Foxes — Peccaries — Sudden northwest wind — Snowstorm — Basket makers — Deepest frost of the winter — The crystallization of maple sugar — The mysterious well — The planned exploration — The lead bullet.