With the ship burnt up, and all the tools gone, it would be no easy matter to build even the roughest kind of a raft." "What do you think about some of us rowing over to what is left of the wreck ?" asked Sam.
"I was thinking of that.

But, if we do that, we had better wait until to-morrow morning.

You can't see much in the dark." "If I thought anybody was dying for the want of aid, I'd go over," said Tom.

"We all know what brutes Lesher and Baxter are.

They wouldn't hesitate to go off and leave some of the others to die where they had fallen." "I think Tom is right, and some of us ought to go over," said Dick.
"I'm willing to go," announced old Jerry.