Thereon, like a sensible person, she set herself to quit them in the same way that she had reached them, namely by means of a canoe.

She got into her canoe safely enough, and paddled a little way out to sea, with a view of returning to the place whence she came.

But the further she went out, and it was necessary that she should go some way on account of the rocks and the currents, the denser grew the fog.

Sounds came through it indeed, but she could not clearly distinguish whence they came, till at last, well as she knew the coast, she grew confused as to whither she was heading.
In this dilemma, while she rested on her paddle staring into the dense surrounding mist and keeping her grey eyes as wide open as nature would allow, and that was very wide, she heard the report of a gun behind her to the right.

Arguing to herself that some wild-fowler on the water must have fired it who would be able to direct her, she turned the canoe round and paddled swiftly in the direction whence the sound came.
Presently she heard the gun again; both barrels were fired, in there to the right, but some way off.