Таинственный остров / Mysterious Island. Жюль Верн

the colonists were about to descend the mountain, when Pencroff cried:

      “Why, what idiots we are!”

      “Why so?” said Spilett, who had closed his note-book.

      “We have forgotten to name our island!”

      Cyrus Smith said quietly:

      “Let us give it the name of a great citizen, my friends, of the defender of American unity! Let us call it Lincoln Island[64]!”

      Chapter XII

      The colonists of Lincoln Island walked around the verge of the crater. Half an hour afterwards they were again upon the lower plateau. Pencroff thought it was breakfast time.

      As they were leaving the plateau, Smith proposed to his companions to take a new road back to the Chimneys. He wished to explore Lake Grant, which lay surrounded so beautifully with trees. The colonists employed in conversation only the proper names which they had just devised, and found that they could express themselves much more easily. Herbert and Pencroff, one of whom was young and the other something of a child, were delighted, and the sailor said as they walked along:

      “Well, Herbert, this is jolly! We can’t lose ourselves now, my boy, since, whether we follow Lake Grant or get to the Mercy through the woods of the Far West, we must come to Prospect Plateau, and so to Union Bay.”