JULES VERNE- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 4 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 4 All at once the reporter sprang up and telling the sailor that he would rejoin them at that same place he climbed the cliff in the direction which the Negro Neb had taken a few hours before. Anxiety hastened his steps for he longed to obtain news of his friend and he soon disappeared round an angle of the cliff. Herbert wished to accompany him. Stop here my boy said the sailor we have to prepare an encampment and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish. Our friends will want something when they come back. There is work for everybody. I am ready replied Herbert. All right said the sailor that will do. We must set about it regularly. We are tired cold and hungry therefore we must have shelter fire and food. There is wood in the forest and eggs in nests we have only to find a house. Very well returned Herbert I will look for a cove among the rocks and I shall be sure to discover some hole into which we can creep. All right said Pencroft go on my boy. They both walked to the foot of the enormous wall over the beach far from which the tide had now retreated but instead of going towards the north they went southward. Pencroft had remarked several hundred feet from the place at which they landed a narrow cutting out of which he thought a river or stream might issue. Now on the one hand it was important to settle themselves in the neighborhood of a good stream of water and on the other it was possible that the current had thrown Cyrus Harding on the shore there. The cliff as has been said rose to a height of three hundred feet but the mass was unbroken throughout and even at its base scarcely washed by the sea it did not offer the smallest fissure which would serve as a dwelling. It was a perpendicular wall of very hard granite which even the waves had not worn away. Towards the summit fluttered myriads of seafowl and especially those of the web-footed species with long flat pointed beaks--a clamorous tribe bold
