"No, and it is a great pity, for the sun's rays are quite strong enough just now to light our tinder."
"Well," said Hatteras, "we must just appease our hunger with the raw meat, and set off again as soon as we can, to try to discover the ship."
"Yes!" replied Clawbonny, speaking to himself, absorbed in his own reflections. "Yes, that might do at a pinch! Why not? We might try."
"What are you dreaming about?" asked Hatteras.
"An idea has just occurred to me."
"An idea come into your head, Doctor," exclaimed Johnson; "then we are saved!"
"Will it succeed? that's the question."
"What's your project?" said Hatteras.
"We want a lens; well, let us make one."
"How?" asked Johnson.