We shall have to get out the anchors and heave on them.

We put on a full head of steam and drove her two or three hundred yards through the mud before she finally brought up.

I wanted to get as near to you as possible, in order to clear the woods round you." By two o'clock the whole ship's company were on board again, and set to work to get her off; but it was not until after some hours' exertion that the Serpent was again afloat.

She was at once turned round, steamed down to the mouth of the creek, and cast anchor opposite the village..