He ran for his life, and there was a steeplechase round the deck, among benches, bales, and coils of rope; while the passengers and the crew cheered first one and then the other, till they could not speak for laughing.

The husband was all but caught once; but a benevolent passenger kicked a camp-stool in the lady's way, and he got a fresh start, which he utilized by climbing up the ladder to the paddle-box.

His wife tried to follow him, but the shouts of laughter which the black men raised at seeing her performances were too much for her, and she came down again.

Here the captain interposed, and put her ashore, where she stood like black-eyed Susan till the vessel was far from the wharf, not waving her lily hand, however, but shaking her clenched fist in the direction of the fugitive.
To return to our voyage to the Isle of Pines .-- All the afternoon the steamer threaded her way cautiously among the coral-reefs which rose almost to the surface.

Sometimes there seemed scarcely room to pass between them, and by night navigation would have been impossible.