gel 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 far out in the wilderness.
When they landed they had absolutely nothing, in the way of tools or
implements. Neither possessed even a knife, s
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