Further our stores were forward and practically everything else that belonged to us, even down to Bickley's instruments and medicines and Bastin's religious works, to say nothing of a great quantity of tinned food and groceries.

Lastly on the deck above the saloon had stood two large lifeboats.

Although these were amply secured at the commencement of the gale one of them, that on the port side, was smashed to smithers; probably some spar had fallen upon it.

The starboard boat, however, remained intact and so far as we could judge, seaworthy, although the bulwarks were broken by the waves.
"There's something we can get away in if necessary," I said.
"Where to ?" remarked Bastin.

"We don't know where we are or if there is any other land within a thousand miles.