As soon as I had the fire fairly alight I saw your signal and then went back to watch them.
Everything was quiet till I heard the boom of the first gun; then I heard 'Silence!' ordered on the schooner.

I suppose some one had said that he heard a gun, and other's didn't.

Of course the sound did not come to them under the shelter of the cliff as it did to me.

Then came the sound of another gun, and then three or four close together; then orders were given sharply, the capstan was manned and the anchor run up, and they were not a minute getting her sails set.

But under the shelter of the cliff there was not enough wind to fill them, and so the boats were manned, and she went gliding away until I could no longer make her out.