The unhandy canvas set us to leeward, and, moreover, the water gained quickly as the strained upper planking was hove down with the new list of the ship.

I went to the open space amidships whence we baled, and watched for a few minutes, and saw that we could do nothing but run, unless the other tack would serve us.
That we tried, but now we were too far from the eastern end of the island, and it was hopeless to try to escape from the breakers.
"Stem on it must be, and take the chances," said my comrade.

"It does seem as if the water were deep up to the beach, and we may not fare so badly.

Well, there is one good point about these gifts which Gerda has given us, and that is that we shall have withal to buy hospitality.

There are folk on the island." "I saw a wisp of smoke a while ago," I said; "but I took it that it was on the mainland.