The natives were too much afraid to advance any farther, and as a wind had now sprung up we deemed it time to make a dash for liberty.

We therefore quietly slipped our anchor and, heading the ship for the open sea, glided swiftly past the enemy's fleet, whose gaily decked, though sorely bewildered, warriors greeted us with a Parthian flight of arrows as we raced by.

In another half-hour we were well out to sea, and able to breathe freely once more..