No doubt the woods are full of them.

There are the townspeople and those who came to help them; and though many of those who tried to swim ashore from the sunken boats may have been taken by the alligators, still the greater portion must have landed all right." "I should think, Mr.Ferguson, that it would be a good plan to send a party of twenty men on shore after nightfall and to distribute them, two Men to a hut.

Possibly two or three of the Malays may come down to the village before morning, either to fetch valuables they may have left behind, or to see whether we are still here.

They may come tonight, or they may come some time tomorrow, crawling through the plantations behind the houses.

At any rate, I will wait here a day or two on the chance." "Whom shall I send with the men, sir ?" "You had better send Parkhurst and Balderson; they will have more authority among the men than the younger midshipmen.