Here they could obtain a view of the channel and its surroundings.

Not a man was to be seen.

The muzzles of the six guns pointed menacingly down into the passage, and the chains could be seen just above the water's edge.
"I think we will go back now, Mr.Pearson.I really think we ought to be very much obliged to those fellows for not sinking us.

I wonder what was their motive in letting us off so easily ?" "I suppose they feel pretty confident that our report is not likely to encourage an attack, and they think that if they were to blow us to pieces it would only make Captain Wilson the more determined to destroy them.

At least that is the conclusion I came to as I rowed back last time." "Yes, I should think that is it," the young captain said.