The subject of the lead bullet — The construction of a canoe — Hunting — At the top of a kauri — Nothing to attest the presence of man — Neb and Herbert’s catch — A tortoise turned over — The tortoise disappears — Cyrus Smith’s explanation.
First trial of the canoe — A wreck on shore — Towing — Flotsam Point — Inventory of the case: tools, arms, instruments, clothes, books, utensils — What Pencroff wanted — The gospel — A verse from the sacred book.
Departure — The rising tide — Elms and nettle trees — Various plants — The jacamar — Aspect of the forest — Giant eucalypti — Why they are called “fever trees” — Troops of monkeys — The waterfall — Night encampment.
Going toward the coast — Several bands of quadrumanes — A new watercourse — Why the tide was not felt — A forest on the shore — Reptile Promontory — Gideon Spilett makes Herbert envious — The noise of the bamboos.
Proposition to return by the southern shore — Configuration of the coast — Search for a presumed wreck — A wreck in the air — Discovery of a small natural port — Midnight on the banks of the Mercy — A drifting canoe.
Pencroff’s calls — A night at the Chimneys — Herbert’s arrow — Cyrus Smith’s plan — An unexpected solution — What happened in Granite House — How a new servant enters the service of the colonists.
Projects to execute — A bridge over the Mercy — Making an island out of Grand View Plateau — The draw-bridge — The corn harvest — The creek — The culverts — The poultry yard — The pigeon house — The two onagers — The harnessed cart — Excursion to Port Balloon.
Linen — Hunting for sealskin — Making pyroxyle — Various plantings — Fishing — Tortoise eggs — Progress of Master Jup — The corral — Hunting wild sheep — New vegetable and animal riches — Remembrance of their native land.
Bad weather — The hydraulic lift — Making glass panes and glass cups — The bread tree — Frequent visits to the corral — Increase in the flock — The reporter’s question — Exact coordinates of Lincoln Island — Pencroff’s proposition.
Construction of the boat — Second harvest of corn — Hunting koala — A new plant more pleasant than useful — A whale in sight — The harpoon from Vineyard — Cutting up the cetacean — Using the whalebones — The end of the month of May — Pencroff has nothing left to wish for.
Winter — Pressing wool — The mill — Pencroff’s obsession — Whalebones — To what use an albatross can be put — The fuel of the future — Top and Jup — Storms — Damage at the poultry yard — An excursion to the marshes — Cyrus Smith alone — Exploration of the well.
The rigging of the boat — An attack by colpeos — Jup wounded — Jup nursed — Jup healing — Completion of the boat — Pencroff’s triumph — The “Bonadventure” — First trial to the south of the island — An unexpected document.
Departure decided — Hypothesis — Preparations — The three passengers — First night — Second night — Tabor Island — Search on the shore — Search in the woods — No one — Animals — Plants — A dwelling — Deserted.
Inventory — Night — Some lettering — Continuing the search — Plants and animals — Herbert in great danger — On board — The departure — Bad weather — A glimmer of instinct — Lost at sea — A timely light.
Return — Discussion — Cyrus Smith and the stranger — Port Balloon — The engineer’s devotion — A moving experience — Some flowing tears.
A mystery to clear up — The stranger’s first words — A dozen years on the islet — Admissions which escape him — The disappearance — Cyrus Smith’s confidence — The third harvest — A windmill — The first flour and the first bread — An act of devotion — Honest hands.
Always alone — A request from the stranger — A farmhouse established at the corral — He was there twelve years — The quartermaster of the Britannia — Abandoned on Tabor Island — The hand of Cyrus Smith — The mysterious document.
Conversation — Cyrus Smith and Gideon Spilett — The engineer’s idea — The electric telegraph — The wires — The battery — The alphabet — Fine season — The colony’s prosperity — Photography — An impression of snow — Two years on Lincoln Island.
Recollections of their native land — Future chances — Proposed survey of the coasts of the island — Departure on the 16th of April — Serpentine Peninsula, a view from the sea — The basalts of the western coast — Bad weather — Night comes on — A new incident.
Night at sea — Shark Gulf — Confidences — Preparations for winter — An early winter — Intense frost — Interior Work — After six months — A photographic negative — Unexpected incident.