To make an impression I fired two shots with my revolver into the air, whereupon both men and women fled into groves of trees and vanished.
"They don't seem to be accustomed to white people," said Bickley.

"Is it possible that we have found a shore upon which no missionary has set a foot ?" "I hope so," said Bastin, "seeing that unworthy as I am, then the opportunities for me would be very great." We stood still and looked about us.

This was what we saw.

All the after part of the ship from forward of the bridge had vanished utterly; there was not a trace of it; she had as it were been cut in two.

More, we were some considerable distance from the sea which was still raging over a quarter of a mile away where great white combers struck upon a reef and spouted into the air.