Steve hazarded the opinion that they were not more than two miles from the mainland, although he made no attempt to give a name to the island they were on.

The fate of the _Follow Me_ worried them all, but Phil, always the most sanguine in times of stress, pointed out that as the other craft had not followed them onto the island she was probably safe.
"She may be piled up further along somewhere," suggested Joe.

"I say we'd better have a look.

It would help a bit to know what sort of a place we've struck, anyway.

For all we know there may be a house just around the corner!" So they set out in two parties, Steve, Ossie and Phil going one way and the rest the other.