JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 47 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 47 So then all was explained by the submarine explosion of this torpedo. Cyrus Harding could not be mistaken as during the war of the Union he had had occasion to try these terrible engines of destruction. It was under the action of this cylinder charged with some explosive substance nitroglycerine picrate or some other material of the same nature that the water of the channel had been raised like a dome the bottom of the brig crushed in and she had sunk instantly the damage done to her hull being so considerable that it was impossible to refloat her. The Speedy had not been able to withstand a torpedo that would have destroyed an ironclad as easily as a fishing-boat Yes all was explained everything--except the presence of the torpedo in the waters of the channel My friends then said Cyrus Harding we can no longer be in doubt as to the presence of a mysterious being a castaway like us perhaps abandoned on our island and I say this in order that Ayrton may be acquainted with all the strange events which have occurred during these two years. Who this beneficent stranger is whose intervention has so fortunately for us been manifested on many occasions I cannot imagine. What his object can be in acting thus in concealing himself after rendering us so many services I cannot understand But his services are not the less real and are of such a nature that only a man possessed of prodigious power could render them. Ayrton is indebted to him as much as we are for if it was the stranger who saved me from the waves after the fall from the balloon evidently it was he who wrote the document who placed the bottle in the channel and who has made known to us the situation of our companion. I will add that it was he who guided that chest provided with everything we wanted and stranded it on Flotsam Point that it was he who lighted that fire on the heights of the island which permitted you to land that it was he who fired that bullet found in
