No doubt the governor general will be anxious to investigate the full extent of the damage, and will send a vessel from Algiers to explore.

It is not likely that we shall be forgotten.

What, then, you have to do, Ben Zoof, is to keep a sharp lookout, and to be ready, in case a vessel should appear, to make signals at once." "But if no vessel should appear!" sighed the orderly.
"Then we must build a boat, and go in search of those who do not come in search of us." "Very good.

But what sort of a sailor are you ?" "Everyone can be a sailor when he must," said Servadac calmly.
Ben Zoof said no more.

For several succeeding days he scanned the horizon unintermittently with his telescope.