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| Exploration of the island: Third day. Stalking goats. Mirror lake and river and bay. Sad moonlight thoughts. |
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| CHAPTER XII. |
| Exploration of the island: Fourth day. Finish the exploration of the island, and build stone house at Rapid River. |
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| CHAPTER XIII. |
| Make a hatchet of my iron hammer. Make matches and utensils for house. Team of goats, chair, table, etc. Birch-bark canoe.Arrangements for winter. |
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| CHAPTER XIV. |
| Make chairs, and arrange my house, seal-skins, and goat-skins. Provide provisions for winter. Discover wild grapes, and make wine and vinegar. Find potassium, or saltpetre. Make gunpowder, and by means of my compass discover iron. Thoughts of the future. |
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| CHAPTER XV. |
| Make a mould for bricks. Build a brick-kiln and make bricks. Build a smelting-house, blast-furnace, kiln for cleansing ore. Meditations. Build water-wheel and fan-wheel, and set my machinery for an air-blast to reduce the ore. |
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| CHAPTER XVI. |
| Smelt my iron and make Bessemer steel and all kinds of tools. Erect an anvil and forge. Build a saw-mill, and plant a farm and kitchen-garden. |
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| CHAPTER XVII. |
| Make an astrolabe, and obtain the latitude of the island, and, by an eclipse of the moon, the longitude also. By means of the Epitome make a chart on Mercator's projection, find out the distance from any known land. |
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| CHAPTER XVIII. |
| A resumé of three years on the island. Daily routine of life. Inventions, discoveries, etc. Fortification of the Hermitage. Manufacture of cannon and guns. Perfection and improvement of the machine shop. Implicit faith of ultimately overcoming all obstacles and escaping from the island. Desire to accumulate some kind of portable wealth to carry with me, and desire to explore the island for its hidden wealth and the surrounding ocean for pearl oysters. |
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| CHAPTER XIX. |
| Construct a submarine boat, to be propelled by goat power and to make its own air, to examine the bottom of the ocean near the island for pearl oysters. |
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| CHAPTER XX. |
| Launch the submarine boat. Experiment with it in Stillwater Cove. |
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| CHAPTER XXI. |
| Explore the bottom of the ocean in the vicinity of the island with my submarine boat. Discover pearl oysters and invent a great improvement to my boat. |
237 |
| CHAPTER XXII. |
| Manufacture glass. Build a steam yacht, and circumnavigate the island. Lay up large stores of valuable pearls obtained from the pearl oysters. |
252 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. |
| Discovery of a human habitation. The skeleton and manuscript. |
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| CHAPTER XXIV. |
| The Pirate's manuscript. |
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| CHAPTER XXV. |
| Finding of the sunken wreck. The submarine explosion of the hull. Recovery of over ten millions in bars of gold and silver. |
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| CHAPTER XXVI. |
| Chess and backgammon playing. Fortification of the island. Team of white swans. Goats as servants, and opponents in backgammon playing. |
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| CHAPTER XXVII. |
| Discovery of gold. Turn the stream out of the lake, and build portable engine to separate the gold. |
321 |
| CHAPTER XXVIII. |
| The sea serpent. Attack and capture one of the species, thus putting the question of its existence forever at rest. |
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| CHAPTER XXIX. |
| Make a balloon and flying machine, in which I make a successful ascension. |
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| CHAPTER XXX. |
| The manuscript sent forth. |
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