Quelques instants après, les trois chasseurs se trouvaient devant un foyer pétillant. In a few minutes the three hunters were before a crackling fire. Cyrus Smith et le reporter étaient là. The captain and the reporter were there. Pencroff les regardait l’un et l’autre, sans mot dire, son cabiai à la main. Pencroft looked from one to the other, his capybara in his hand, without saying a word.
« Eh bien, oui, mon brave, s’écria le reporter. "Well, yes, my brave fellow," cried the reporter.
Du feu, du vrai feu, qui rôtira parfaitement ce magnifique gibier dont nous nous régalerons tout à l’heure ! "Fire, real fire, which will roast this splendid pig perfectly, and we will have a feast presently!"
— Mais qui a allumé ?… demanda Pencroff. "But who lighted it?" asked Pencroft.