So changed that, when a Spanish frigate appeared before the island and a demand was sent to the Sultan to deliver Omar and his companions, Babalatchi was not surprised to hear that they were going to be made the victims of political expediency.

But from that sane appreciation of danger to tame submission was a very long step.

And then began Omar's second flight.

It began arms in hand, for the little band had to fight in the night on the beach for the possession of the small canoes in which those that survived got away at last.

The story of that escape lives in the hearts of brave men even to this day.