If you like I will take a score of my men and cross the island this afternoon, and to-morrow will examine the whole line of shore.

If there are only one or two places they can land at we may be able to defend them; but if there are four or five places far apart our force won't be sufficient to hold them all, for they could land two hundred and fifty men from those two ships, perhaps a hundred more." "That is the best thing to be done, Vipon.

Of course you will send us word across directly you see how the land lies.

If we find that they can land in a good many places, there will be nothing for us to do but try and make a bolt for it.

Keeping close in under the cliffs at night we may manage to give them the slip, or in any case one if not two of us may get away.