Lost or saved? — Ayrton recalled — Important discussion — It is not the Duncan — Suspicious vessel — Precautions to be taken — The vessel approaches — A cannon shot — The brig anchors in sight of the island — Night comes on.
Discussions — Misgivings — Ayrton’s proposition — They accept it — Ayrton and Pencroff on Grant Islet — Convicts from Norfolk — Their plans — Ayrton’s heroic attempt — His return — Six against fifty.
The fog lifts — The engineer’s arrangements — Three posts — Ayrton and Pencroff — The first boat — Two more boat loadings — On the islet — Six convicts on land — The brig raises anchor — The projectiles from the “Speedy” — Desperate situation — An unexpected denouement.
The colonists on the beach — Ayrton and Pencroff work at salvaging — Gossip during lunch — Pencroff’s remarks — Close inspection of the brig’s hull — Intact storeroom — New riches — The last of the debris — A piece of broken cylinder.
The engineer’s assertions — Pencroff’s grandiose hypotheses — An aerial battery — Four projectiles — On the subject of the surviving convicts — Ayrton’s hesitation — Cyrus Smith’s generous sentiments — Pencroff apologizes.
Expedition plans — Ayrton at the corral — Visit to Port Balloon — Remarks made by Pencroff on board the Bonadventure — Dispatch sent to the corral — No reply from Ayrton — Departure the next day — Why the telegraph no longer functioned — A detonation.
The reporter and Pencroff in the corral — Herbert transported — The sailor’s despair — Consultation between the reporter and the engineer — Mode of treatment — They recover some hope — How to warn Neb? — A reliable and faithful messenger — Neb’s reply.
The convicts in the neighborhood of the corral — Temporary arrangements — Continuation of Herbert’s treatment — Pencroff’s first jubilations — Reviewing the past — What is in store for the future — Cyrus Smith’s ideas on this subject.
They are without news from Neb — A proposal by Pencroff and by the reporter which is not accepted — Some sorties by Gideon Spilett — A piece of material — A message — Hasty departure — Arrival at Grand View Plateau.
Herbert carried to Granite House — Neb relates what occurred — Cyrus Smith’s visit to the plateau — Ruin and devastation — The colonists are disarmed by the malady — Willow bark — Mortal fever — Top barks again!
Inexplicable mystery — Herbert’s convalescence — Parts of the island to explore — Preparations for departure — The first day — Night — Second day — The kauris — The cassowary couple — Footprints in the forest — Arrival at Reptile Promontory.
Exploration of Serpentine Peninsula — Encampment at the mouth of Falls River — Six hundred feet from the corral — Gideon Spilett’s and Pencroff’s reconnaissance — Their return — Everyone moves forward — An open door — A lighted window — By the light of the moon!
Ayrton’s account — Plans of his former accomplices — Their installation at the corral — The judge of Lincoln Island — The Bonadventure — Search around Mount Franklin — Upper valleys — Subterranean noises — Pencroff’s response — At the bottom of the crater — Return.
Three years have passed — The question of the new vessel — What is resolved — Prosperity of the colony — The shipyard — The frosts of the southern hemisphere — Pencroff is resigned — Bleaching the linen — Mount Franklin.
The awakening of the volcano — The fine season — Resuming work — The evening of the 15th of October — A telegram — A request — A response — Departure for the corral — The note — The supplementary wire — Basalt coast — High tide — Low tide — The cavern — A dazzling light.
Captain Nemo — His first words — The story of one of the heros of independence — Hatred of the invaders — His companions — Submarine life — Alone — The last refuge of the “Nautilus” at Lincoln Island — The mysterious genie of the island.
Captain Nemo’s last hours — The wishes of the dying man — A souvenir to his friends of a day — Captain Nemo’s coffin — Some advice to the colonists — The supreme moment — At the bottom of the sea.
Everyone’s thoughts — Resuming construction activity — The 1st of January 1868 — A trail of smoke at the top of the volcano — First symptoms of an eruption — Ayrton and Cyrus Smith at the corral — Exploration of Dakkar Crypt — What Captain Nemo told the engineer.
Cyrus Smith’s account of his exploration — They speed up the construction — A last visit to the corral — The battle between fire and water — What remains of the surface of the island — They decide to launch the vessel — The night of the 8th to the 9th of March.
An isolated rock in the Pacific — The last refuge of the colonists of Lincoln Island — Death in view — Unexpected help — Why and how it came — The last benefaction — An island on firm ground — The tomb of Captain Nemo.