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If Captain Gould was not mistaken in his calculations about the / geographical position of the island, the summer season could not have / more than another three months to run. After that, winter would arrive, / formidable by reason of its cold squalls and furious storms. The faint / chance of attracting the attention of some ship out at sea by means of / signals would have disappeared. In winter sailors avoid these dangerous / waters. But just possibly something would happen before then to modify / the situation.
Existence was much what it had been ever since that gloomy 26th of / October when the boat was destroyed. The monotony was terribly trying to / such active men. With nothing to do but wander about at the foot of the / cliff which imprisoned them, tiring their eyes with watching the ever / deserted sea, they needed extraordinary moral courage not to give way to / despair.