CHAPTER XXIV.
TRIAL OF THE CANOE—A WRECK ON THE SHORE—THE TOW—JETSAM POINT—INVENTORY OF THE BOX—WHAT PENCROFF WANTED—A BIBLE—A VERSE FROM THE BIBLE.
On the 29th of October the canoe was finished. Pencroff had kept his word, and had built, in five days, a sort of bark shell, stiffened with flexible crejimba rods. A seat at either end, another midway to keep it open, a gunwale for the thole-pins of a pair of oars, and a paddle to steer with, completed this canoe, which was twelve feet in length, and did not weigh 200 pounds.
“Hurrah!” cried the sailor, quite ready to applaud his own success. “With this we can make the tour of—”
“Of the world?” suggested Spilett.
“No, but of the island. Some stones for ballast, a mast in the bow, with a sail which Mr. Smith will make some day, and away w
