And should he meet with them here, and succeed, how could he carry his recovered treasures to the island?
"No, my children," said I, "we will all search, in the confidence that God will bless our efforts." "And perhaps sooner than we think," said Ernest.

"Perhaps they are in this island." Jack was running off immediately to search, but I called my little madcap back, till we arranged our plans.

I advised that two of us should remain to watch the coast, while the other two penetrated into the interior.

The first thing necessary to ascertain was if the island was inhabited, which might easily be done, by climbing some tree that overlooked the country, and remarking if there were any traces of the natives, any huts, or fires lighted, &c.

Those who made any discovery were immediately to inform the rest, that we might go in a body to recover our own.