The other fellows will be all right; they can all swim like fish." In two or three minutes the injured man was laid down under an awning over the fore deck of the cruiser, and the surgeon at once came up.
"How is the child, Doctor ?" "She is still insensible," he said, "but she will soon be all right.

I can't discover any injury, and I think it likely that it was the sudden shock, and perhaps a knock against the side of the boat, that stunned her; for I have no doubt she could swim, small as she is.

This is a much more serious affair; he has an ugly gash in his temple, his collarbone is broken, and," he went on, as he passed his hands down the patient's side, "he has two, if not more ribs broken." "Well, we will leave him to you, Doctor; there are a lot of these fellows in the water, and I suppose they must be brought on board until we can get a boat to take them ashore." In a few minutes eighteen Malays were brought to the side, and the two canoes, which were floating level with the water, were towed up and fastened by a rope to the stern of the gunboat.

Even when safely on deck, the two parties were still so infuriated that they had to be separated and placed under guards apart from each other.

Three or four had been killed by the stabs of the deadly krises, and their bodies could be seen floating astern.