JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 13 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 13 Well captain where are we going to begin asked Pencroft next morning of the engineer. At the beginning replied Cyrus Harding. And in fact the settlers were compelled to begin at the very beginning. They did not possess even the tools necessary for making tools and they were not even in the condition of nature who having time husbands her strength. They had no time since they had to provide for the immediate wants of their existence and though profiting by acquired experience they had nothing to invent still they had everything to make their iron and their steel were as yet only in the state of minerals their earthenware in the state of clay their linen and their clothes in the state of textile material. It must be said however that the settlers were men in the complete and higher sense of the word. The engineer Harding could not have been seconded by more intelligent companions nor with more devotion and zeal. He had tried them. He knew their abilities. Gideon Spilett a talented reporter having learned everything so as to be able to speak of everything would contribute largely with his head and hands to the colonization of the island. He would not draw back from any task a determined sportsman he would make a business of what till then had only been a pleasure to him. Herbert a gallant boy already remarkably well informed in the natural sciences would render greater service to the common cause. Neb was devotion personified. Clever intelligent indefatigable robust with iron health he knew a little about the work of the forge and could not fail to be very useful in the colony. As to Pencroft he had sailed over every sea a carpenter in the dockyards in Brooklyn assistant tailor in the vessels of the state gardener cultivator during his holidays etc. and like all seamen fit for anything he knew how to do everything. It would have been difficult to unite five men better fitted to struggle against fate more certain to triumph
