I also thrust it out laterally to the right and left, but could touch nothing except water.

Then I bethought me that there was in the boat, amongst our other remaining possessions, a bull's-eye lantern and a tin of oil.

I groped about and found it, and having a match on me carefully lit it, and as soon as the flame had got a hold of the wick I turned it on down the boat.

As it happened, the first thing the light lit on was the white and scared face of Alphonse, who, thinking that it was all over at last, and that he was witnessing a preliminary celestial phenomenon, gave a terrific yell and was with difficulty reassured with the paddle.
As for the other three, Good was lying on the flat of his back, his eyeglass still fixed in his eye, and gazing blankly into the upper darkness.

Sir Henry had his head resting on the thwarts of the canoe, and with his hand was trying to test the speed of the water.