Next moment Israel was under arrest.

Being brought into the presence of the forty prisoners, where they lay in litters of mouldy straw, strewn with gnawed bones, as in a kennel, he recognized among them one Singles, now Sergeant Singles, the man who, upon our hero's return home from his last Cape Horn voyage, he had found wedded to his mountain Jenny.

Instantly a rush of emotions filled him.

Not as when Damon found Pythias.

But far stranger, because very different.