If it were anywhere else I should say build a hut for them; but it would be a tremendous business getting the materials down, and I don't think it could possibly be managed by night." "I am sure it couldn't," Ralph said, shaking his head.

"I think, though, if we got two long poles and slung a piece of canvas like a hammock between them we may possibly get them down to the shore.

You see we have plenty of strength to get them over rough places." "We could manage that easy enough," Lieutenant Adcock, who had some time before joined the party, said.

"There are some sixteen-feet oars in the boat and some sails.

We could easily rig up the hammock.