The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island

em. Each journey to the interior brought some surprise in the way of fruit, flower or vegetable. Some were

said Harry, "that makes this seem l

It is the most successful business plant, in this particular, that it is

nd some cattle

and stomach that the thorns do not affect them. There is hardly a plant which is as nutri

specimen for examination. "Here is a very pretty flower which is different

inity with its three leaves. The plant has some very peculiar qualities. It actually goes to sleep at night. It folds up its leaves. It is so sensitiv

it and Flowe

something that smells like it, but I did

flowers of which have, as you see, dis

is that we are able to smell o

ey may be so mixed together as to produce discord. Some perfumes, when used on the handkerchief, and are about to fade away, have a sickly and disagreeable odor. This is due to the admixture of the wrong or discordant tones. Thus, heliotrope, vanilla, orang

owers or essences which m

ombination of only carbon and hydrogen, and the wonderful thing about it is, that while turpentine is composed of 88 parts of carbon

pring came, a garden, which would avoid the necessity of constantly putting them on the alert to hunt the different foods. Sometimes it was necessary to go considera

d I wish we could find some real good sweet pota

different kinds, is largely a matte

ds grow out of the need of man to get the

, and those vegetables, although they may be different in different countries, make chemical combinations, when eaten, which are almost identical

erd of yaks. When the Professor arose and went out for his regular morning

or, "that they are coming to

hem, in a not very polite way

th a club, Ha

't he make good sole leather? What i

"Did you see the peculiar mar

ertainly a mark of some kind. See if you can

nificent specimen. Like all this species he was a dark red, and had immense horns. All yaks, male and fema

-voiced roar and an ominous lowering and shaking of his shaggy head, made a beeline for him. The Professor called out, and he and Harry both sprang forward to aid him, but the bull's rush was a fierce one, and as we have previously stated, they are very active creatures. George

realized that he could not pos

now thoroughly domesticated. The Professor was the first to notice the appearance of their bull, who

made his charge and emitted the challenging bellow, the scene was a truly terrific one. George

" He was making a charge down into the h

didn't hear our herd give th

what do

orship of the herd when the new arrivals came, as tha

t him! Good

from the right quarter, but his rush had been so impetuous that when Apollo struck him he rolled over, one of his large horns striking t

" and this was a sufficient reminde

could not foresee a stampede. It was fortunate that the big bull was behind the herd when the stampede began, and it was lucky that there was plenty of room for the animals, or he surely would have been trampled to death. Natura

the running stopped, the yaks leisurely turned around and slowly walked back. The movem

n the part of Apollo. The latter at each forward plunge twisted his head, first to the right, and then to the left, as though he was boring his way in. This was an astonishing thi

lthough intensely excited, wanted to give the bull a shot, but the Professor restrained h

this battle the big fellow will not cau

ely to know that the question of kingship was being decided. It was entirely immaterial to them

k up a fuss, didn'

he gave him that time!" George was a dancing Dervish by this time. Then n

as he grasped the gun. "The Profess

outh and vigor, and he knew it. His antagonist did not rush any more. Apo

but in the opposite direction. Instinct told him that if he had gone toward the cows it would

pollo's head was high in the air. Dejection on one side and absolute mastery on the other were as

do if I go u

is all ou

, and when they walked around to get a view of his other

and of some person who capt

o you supp

ge with any certainty, but I

suppose the

common way of marking cattle, so as to indicate ownership; nearly all savage tribes have a habit of branding, or tatt

Mysterious Br

f-grown cattle. The new acquisition brought the count up to twenty-six cows and twenty young animals. The vanquished bull was very meek

drilling machine was his next tool, and as the weeks passed the boys devoted much of their time to making such ar

ase and oil worked into them until they were pliable. The thick parts of the hides had been previously cut ou

llow them and hunt for game. On one occasion, while Harry was on the opposite hill, George saw the flash of Harry's gun, and almost im

saw Harry's fire befor

y 'sound' o

quizzically. "Is there any diff

. Sound means a succession of vibrations produced in their regular order, like music, whereas noise is a disorganized

d a wagon going rapidly over a

is then called a sound. But you wanted to know why you saw the shot before you heard it. Simply because sound does not travel as fast

t sounds travel a

e been made, and many of them go to show that a l

easuring S

the cause

e motions, although the sound waves may be the same lengths in both

he was off quite a distance, and kept it up until long after he had passed us. I noticed that when the whistle started the sou

r ear came nearer the whistle, and the distance through which the sound had to travel decreased. This made increasingly shorter waves, and not long, regular waves, as when at rest. Short waves make a high pitch, and long waves low pitch. After you passed the trai

he whistle; B its pitch when you first heard it; C shows the point where y