Bless her little heart!" Hazel and Welch then got into the boat, and pushed off without much difficulty, and punted across the bay to one of those clefts we have indicated.

It was now nearly high water, and they moored the boat close under the cleft Hazel had selected.
Then they both got out and went up to the extremity of the cleft, and there, with the ax and with pieces of wood, they scraped out a resting-place for Cooper.

This was light work; for it was all stones, shells, fragments of coral and dried sea-weed lying loosely together.

But now came a hard task in which Welch could not assist.

Hazel unshipped a thwart and laid the body on it.