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Chapter XVI. Tsalal Island

           Therewasnowateranywhere;buteverywhereabsolute,awfuldrought.

           Nevertheless,Huntwalkedonrapidly,withoutshowinganyhesitation.Itseemedasthoughhewasledbyanaturalinstinct,“abee’sflight,”aswesayinAmerica.Iknownotwhatpresentimentinducedustofollowhimasthebestofguides,aChingachgook,aRenard-Subtil.Andwhynot?Wasnothethefellow-countrymanofFenimoreCooper’sheroes?

           But,ImustrepeatthatwehadnotbeforeoureyesthatfabulouslandwhichArthurPymdescribed.Thesoilweweretreadinghadbeenravaged,wrecked,tornbyconvulsion.Itwasblack,acinderyblack,asthoughithadbeenvomitedfromtheearthundertheactionofPlutonianforces;itsuggestedthatsomeappallingandirresistiblecataclysmhadoverturnedthewholeofitssurface.

           Notoneoftheanimalsmentionedinthenarrativewastobeseen,andeventhepenguinswhichaboundintheAntarcticregionshadfledfromthisuninhabitableland.Itssternsilenceandsolitudemadeitahideousdesert.Nohumanbeingwastobeseeneitheronthecoastorintheinterior.DidanychanceoffindingWilliamGuyandthesurvivorsoftheJaneexistinthemidstofthissceneofdesolation?

           IlookedatCaptainLenGuy.Hispaleface,dimeyes,andknitbrowtoldtooplainlythathopewasbeginningtodiewithinhisbreast.

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