She lay with a sharp list and her other side was under water.

The tide was beginning to rise and when it crept up her slanted deck they pulled back to the tug.
"We'll moor the hulk alongside and rig the diving pumps.

I think that's all to-day," Brown remarked.

"When the sun is low I'll go to the factory up the creek and try to hire some native boys.

On this coast, a white man who does heavy work soon gets fever." In the afternoon they took two men and rowed up a muddy creek that flowed into the lagoon, but the factory was farther than they thought and when they landed dusk was falling.