通译双语文库:神秘岛Book 1 第9章

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In a few words, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, and Neb were made acquainted with what had happened. This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.

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Neb, in his delight at having found his master, did not listen, or rather, did not care to trouble himself with what Pencroft was saying.

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Herbert shared in some degree the sailor's feelings.

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As to the reporter, he simply replied,--

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"Upon my word, Pencroft, it's perfectly indifferent to me!"

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"But, I repeat, that we haven't any fire!"

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"Pooh!"

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"Nor any means of relighting it!"

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"Nonsense!"

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"But I say, Mr. Spilett--"

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"Isn't Cyrus here?" replied the reporter.

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"Is not our engineer alive? He will soon find some way of making fire for us!"

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"With what?"

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"With nothing."

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What had Pencroft to say? He could say nothing, for, in the bottom of his heart he shared the confidence which his companions had in Cyrus Harding. The engineer was to them a microcosm, a compound of every science, a possessor of all human knowledge. It was better to be with Cyrus in a desert island, than without him in the most flourishing town in the United States. With him they could want nothing; with him they would never despair. If these brave men had been told that a volcanic eruption would destroy the land, that this land would be engulfed in the depths of the Pacific, they would have imperturbably replied,--

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"Cyrus is here!"

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While in the palanquin, however, the engineer had again relapsed into unconsciousness, which the jolting to which he had been subjected during his journey had brought on, so that they could not now appeal to his ingenuity. The supper must necessarily be very meager. In fact, all the grouse flesh had been consumed, and there no longer existed any means of cooking more game. Besides, the couroucous which had been reserved had disappeared. They must consider what was to be done.

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First of all, Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage. There they managed to arrange for him a couch of sea-weed which still remained almost dry. The deep sleep which had overpowered him would no doubt be more beneficial to him than any nourishment.

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Night had closed in, and the temperature, which had modified when the wind shifted to the northwest, again became extremely cold. Also, the sea having destroyed the partitions which Pencroft had put up in certain places in the passages, the Chimneys, on account of the draughts, had become scarcely habitable. The engineer's condition would, therefore, have been bad enough, if his companions had not carefully covered him with their coats and waistcoats.

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Supper, this evening, was of course composed of the inevitable lithodomes, of which Herbert and Neb picked up a plentiful supply on the beach. However, to these molluscs, the lad added some edible sea-weed, which he gathered on high rocks, whose sides were only washed by the sea at the time of high tides. This sea-weed, which belongs to the order of Fucacae, of the genus sargassum, produces, when dry, a gelatinous matter, rich and nutritious. The reporter and his companions, after having eaten a quantity of lithodomes, sucked the sargassum, of which the taste was very tolerable. It is used in parts of the East very considerably by the natives. "Never mind!" said the sailor, "the captain will help us soon." Meanwhile the cold became very severe, and unhappily they had no means of defending themselves from it.

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The sailor, extremely vexed, tried in all sorts of ways to procure fire. Neb helped him in this work. He found some dry moss, and by striking together two pebbles he obtained some sparks, but the moss, not being inflammable enough, did not take fire, for the sparks were really only incandescent, and not at all of the same consistency as those which are emitted from flint when struck in the same manner. The experiment, therefore, did not succeed.

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Pencroft, although he had no confidence in the proceeding, then tried rubbing two pieces of dry wood together, as savages do. Certainly, the movement which he and Neb exhibited, if it had been transformed into heat, according to the new theory, would have been enough to heat the boiler of a steamer! It came to nothing. The bits of wood became hot, to be sure, but much less so than the operators themselves.

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After working an hour, Pencroft, who was in a complete state of perspiration, threw down the pieces of wood in disgust.

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"I can never be made to believe that savages light their fires in this way, let them say what they will," he exclaimed. "I could sooner light my arms by rubbing them against each other!"

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The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding. Savages often kindle wood by means of rapid rubbing. But every sort of wood does not answer for the purpose, and besides, there is "the knack," following the usual expression, and it is probable that Pencroft had not "the knack."

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Pencroft's ill humor did not last long. Herbert had taken the bits of wood which he had turned down, and was exerting himself to rub them. The hardy sailor could not restrain a burst of laughter on seeing the efforts of the lad to succeed where he had failed.

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"Rub, my boy, rub!" said he.

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"I am rubbing," replied Herbert, laughing, "but I don't pretend to do anything else but warm myself instead of shivering, and soon I shall be as hot as you are, my good Pencroft!"

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This soon happened. However, they were obliged to give up, for this night at least, the attempt to procure fire. Gideon Spilett repeated, for the twentieth time, that Cyrus Harding would not have been troubled for so small a difficulty. And, in the meantime, he stretched himself in one of the passages on his bed of sand. Herbert, Neb, and Pencroft did the same, while Top slept at his master's feet.

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Next day, the 28th of March, when the engineer awoke, about eight in the morning, he saw his companions around him watching his sleep, and, as on the day before, his first words were:--

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"Island or continent?" This was his uppermost thought.

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"Well!" replied Pencroft, "we don't know anything about it, captain!"

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"You don't know yet?"

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"But we shall know," rejoined Pencroft, "when you have guided us into the country."

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"I think I am able to try it," replied the engineer, who, without much effort, rose and stood upright.

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"That's capital!" cried the sailor.

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"I feel dreadfully weak," replied Harding. "Give me something to eat, my friends, and it will soon go off. You have fire, haven't you?"

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This question was not immediately replied to. But, in a few seconds--

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"Alas! we have no fire," said Pencroft, "or rather, captain, we have it no longer!"

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And the sailor recounted all that had passed the day before. He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.

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"We shall consider," replied the engineer, "and if we do not find some substance similar to tinder--"

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"Well?" asked the sailor.

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"Well, we will make matches.

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"Chemicals?"

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"Chemicals!"

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"It is not more difficult than that," cried the reporter, striking the sailor on the shoulder.

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The latter did not think it so simple, but he did not protest. All went out. The weather had become very fine. The sun was rising from the sea's horizon, and touched with golden spangles the prismatic rugosities of the huge precipice.

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Having thrown a rapid glance around him, the engineer seated himself on a block of stone. Herbert offered him a few handfuls of shell-fish and sargassum, saying,--

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"It is all that we have, Captain Harding."

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"Thanks, my boy," replied Harding; "it will do--for this morning at least."

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He ate the wretched food with appetite, and washed it down with a little fresh water, drawn from the river in an immense shell.

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His companions looked at him without speaking. Then, feeling somewhat refreshed, Cyrus Harding crossed his arms, and said,--

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"So, my friends, you do not know yet whether fate has thrown us on an island, or on a continent?"

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"No, captain," replied the boy.

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"We shall know to-morrow," said the engineer; "till then, there is nothing to be done."

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"Yes," replied Pencroft.

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"What?"

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"Fire," said the sailor, who, also, had a fixed idea.

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"We will make it, Pencroft," replied Harding.

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"While you were carrying me yesterday, did I not see in the west a mountain which commands the country?"

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Book 1 第9章|Book 1 Chapter 9

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In a few words, Gideon Spilett, Herbert, and Neb were made acquainted with what had happened. This accident, which appeared so very serious to Pencroft, produced different effects on the companions of the honest sailor.

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Neb, in his delight at having found his master, did not listen, or rather, did not care to trouble himself with what Pencroft was saying.

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Herbert shared in some degree the sailor's feelings.

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As to the reporter, he simply replied,--

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"Upon my word, Pencroft, it's perfectly indifferent to me!"

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"But, I repeat, that we haven't any fire!"

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"Pooh!"

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"Nor any means of relighting it!"

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"Nonsense!"

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"But I say, Mr. Spilett--"

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"Isn't Cyrus here?" replied the reporter.

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"Is not our engineer alive? He will soon find some way of making fire for us!"

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"With what?"

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"With nothing."

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"Cyrus is here!"

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First of all, Cyrus Harding was carried into the central passage. There they managed to arrange for him a couch of sea-weed which still remained almost dry. The deep sleep which had overpowered him would no doubt be more beneficial to him than any nourishment.

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After working an hour, Pencroft, who was in a complete state of perspiration, threw down the pieces of wood in disgust.

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"I can never be made to believe that savages light their fires in this way, let them say what they will," he exclaimed. "I could sooner light my arms by rubbing them against each other!"

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The sailor was wrong to despise the proceeding. Savages often kindle wood by means of rapid rubbing. But every sort of wood does not answer for the purpose, and besides, there is "the knack," following the usual expression, and it is probable that Pencroft had not "the knack."

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Pencroft's ill humor did not last long. Herbert had taken the bits of wood which he had turned down, and was exerting himself to rub them. The hardy sailor could not restrain a burst of laughter on seeing the efforts of the lad to succeed where he had failed.

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"Rub, my boy, rub!" said he.

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"I am rubbing," replied Herbert, laughing, "but I don't pretend to do anything else but warm myself instead of shivering, and soon I shall be as hot as you are, my good Pencroft!"

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Next day, the 28th of March, when the engineer awoke, about eight in the morning, he saw his companions around him watching his sleep, and, as on the day before, his first words were:--

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"Island or continent?" This was his uppermost thought.

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"Well!" replied Pencroft, "we don't know anything about it, captain!"

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"You don't know yet?"

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"But we shall know," rejoined Pencroft, "when you have guided us into the country."

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"I think I am able to try it," replied the engineer, who, without much effort, rose and stood upright.

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"That's capital!" cried the sailor.

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"I feel dreadfully weak," replied Harding. "Give me something to eat, my friends, and it will soon go off. You have fire, haven't you?"

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This question was not immediately replied to. But, in a few seconds--

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"Alas! we have no fire," said Pencroft, "or rather, captain, we have it no longer!"

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And the sailor recounted all that had passed the day before. He amused the engineer by the history of the single match, then his abortive attempt to procure fire in the savages' way.

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"We shall consider," replied the engineer, "and if we do not find some substance similar to tinder--"

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"Well?" asked the sailor.

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"Well, we will make matches.