They whistled for a surf boat, but it was some time before one put out.

When she was launched it was doubtful whether she would be able to make her way through the breaking water.

The surf was much heavier here than it had been at Accra, and each wave threw the boat almost perpendicularly into the air, so that only a few feet of the end of the keel touched the water.

Still she struggled on, although so long was she in getting through the surf that those on board the ship thought several times that she must give it up as impracticable.

At last, however, she got through; the paddlers waited for a minute to recover from their exertions, and then made out to the Decoy.