The sun was hot; but toward evening the lieutenant gave permission for the men to bathe; but warned us that no man must go far from the boats, because there might be sharks about.
However, we didn't see none, and we enjoyed the dip, and were in better humor still when we found that a light breeze was springing up.

It might have been about midnight when the men on watch made out a light to seaward, and we weren't long in getting up our grapnels and sitting our oars.

In half an hour we were on board, and were soon sailing away from the island again.
"The next night in we came again, and I saw that the third lieutenant's plan was going to be adopted; in fact, I guessed so before; for the sail makers had been at work with two light ropes making a rope ladder, and the ship's smith had got some empty shells on deck, and had made a shift to screw some iron eyes into them for fixing ropes to.

The gun was taken out of the pinnace and a little mortar fixed in her, and half a dozen ropes, each a hundred fathoms long, had knots put in them every two feet.
"The launch and the two cutters were lowered as well as the pinnace this time, and the crews were armed with cutlass and pistol.

I went with them as before, as I should be wanted to guide them when they got near the village.