Chapter I: Introduction

The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of _L'Abandonne_. Jules Verne's list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes--a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. _L'Abandonne_, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the _Magasin Illustre_ of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy's story-book. Its success in both forms seems to have established a record in the race for popularity and a circulation in both the French and English fields of current literature. The present book was translated into English by the late W. H. G. Kingston; and is printed in EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY by special exclusive arrangement with Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.

1909

The list of tales and favourite romances by Jules Verne includes the following:--

Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1870; A Journey to the Centre of the
Earth, translated by J. V., 1872; tr. F. A. Malleson, 1876;
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 1873; tr. H. Frith,
1876; From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Round it, tr. Q.
Mercier and E. G. King, 1873; The English at the North Pole,
1873; Meridiana: Adventures of Three English and Three
Russians, 1873; Dr. Ox's Experiment and other Stories, 1874; A
Floating City, 1874; The Blockade Runners, 1874; Around the
World in Eighty Days, tr. G. M. Towle and N. D'Anvers, 1874,
1876; tr. H. Frith, 1879; The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees
North Latitude, tr. N. D'Anvers, 1874; tr H. Frith, 1879; The
Mysterious Island, tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1875; The Survivors
of the _Chancellor_: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, tr E. Frewer,
1875; Martin Paz, tr. E. Frewer, 1876; Field of Ice, 1876;
Child of the Cavern, tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1877, Michael
Strogoff, tr. W. H. G. Kingston, 1877; A Voyage Round the
World, 1877; Hector Senvadac, tr. E. Frewer, 1878; Dick Sands,
the Boy Captain, tr. E. Frewer, 1879; Celebrated Travels and
Travellers: The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century,
tr. Dora Leigh, N. D'Anvers, etc., 1879-81; Tribulations of a
Chinaman, tr. E. Frewer, 1880; The Begum's Fortune, tr. W. H.
G. Kingston, 1880; The Steam House, tr. A. D. Kingston, 1881;
The Giant Raft, W. J. Gordon, 1881; Godfrey Morgan, 1883; The
Green Ray, tr. M. de Hauteville, 1883; The Vanished Diamond,
1885; The Archipelago on Fire, 1886; Mathias Sandorf, 1886;
Keraban the Inflexible, 1887; The Lottery Ticket, 1887;
Clipper of the Clouds, 1887; The Flight to France, or Memoirs
of a Dragoon, 1888; North against South: Story of the American
Civil War, 1888; Adrift in the Pacific, 1889; Cesar Cacabel,
1891; The Purchase of the North Pole, 1891; A Family without a
Name, 1891; Mistress Branican, 1892; Claudius Bombarnac, 1894;
Foundling Mick, 1895; Clovis Dardentor, 1897; For the Flag,
tr. Mrs. C. Hoey, 1897; An Antarctic Mystery, 1898.

Jules Verne's works are published in an authorised and
illustrated edition by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co.,
Ltd.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
Conversation on the Subject of the Bullet -- Construction
of a Canoe -- Hunting -- At the Top of a Kauri -- Nothing
to attest the Presence of Man -- Neb and Herbert's Prize
-- Turning a Turtle -- The Turtle disappears -- Cyrus
Harding's Explanation 1

CHAPTER II

First Trial of the Canoe -- A Wreck on the Coast --
Towing -- Flotsam Point -- Inventory of the Case: Tools,
Weapons, Instruments, Clothes, Books, Utensils -- What
Pencroft misses -- The Gospel -- A Verse from the Sacred