I intended to go round it, and disembark there, if possible, that I might look out for some trace of the ship, but we found this impossible; the sea ran too high; besides, we should have been unable to moor our canoe, the island not affording a single tree or anything we could lash it to, and the waves would soon have carried it away.

We had now lost sight of the light, and hearing no more signals, I began to think on your distress when we did not arrive at the hour we promised.

I therefore resolved to return by the other side of the bay, carefully avoiding the current, which would have carried us into the open sea.

I lowered the sail by means of the ropes you had fixed to it, and we rowed into port.

We carefully moored the canoe, and, without returning to Tent House, took the road home.