This to him was an entirely new pleasure, and he enjoyed it intensely.

Perched on some projecting rock out of reach of the waves, he would sit for hours watching the grand scene, sometimes alone, sometimes with one or two of his comrades.

The influx of a hundred visitors had somewhat straitened the islanders, and the fishermen were forced to put to sea in weather when they would not ordinarily have launched their boats, for in the winter they seldom ventured out unless the previous season had been unusually bad, and the stores of food laid by insufficient for winter consumption.

Archie generally went out with an old man, who with two grownup sons owned a boat.

They were bold and skilful fishermen, and often put to sea when no other boat cared to go out.
One evening the old man, as usual before going to sea, came into the hut which Archie and Sir James Douglas inhabited, and told him that he was going out early the next morning.