But Ned Land did not find his provisions sufficient.

Fate, however, favoured us.

Just as we were pushing off, he perceived several trees, from twenty-five to thirty feet high, a species of palm-tree.
At last, at five o'clock in the evening, loaded with our riches, we quitted the shore, and half an hour after we hailed the Nautilus.

No one appeared on our arrival.

The enormous iron-plated cylinder seemed deserted.