15 and 16 feet long and weighed between 3,000 and 4,000 pounds. On its neck, yawned a wound, some sharp instrument made it. What killed the dugong? Nobody knew the answer.
Chapter XV
Cyrus Smith stood upon the border of the lake, thinking about the incident. He wanted to solve the mystery of that combat.
– Well, Cyrus, – said the reporter, – The wound on this beast is strange enough, and I can’t understand how Top was thrown out of the water. There was a strong arm, and that same arm killed the dugong.
– It’s very strange, indeed, – answered the engineer. – There is something here which I cannot understand. And we can’t explain how I myself was saved. Therefore, I am sure there is a mystery which we will discover some day.
Neb and Pencroff were extracting the fat from the dugong and preserving the flesh for food. Now the colonists have a lot of food!
The next day, near the lake they saw a passage. The opening was twenty feet wide, but only two feet high.
– What are we waiting for, Mr. Smith? – cried the sailor. He wanted to begin the exploration.
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