The young wife and Mary Marlowe became intimate friends at once, while, as has been said, there was a hearty, genuine comradeship immediately established among all.
The boat was larger than Dr.Marlowe and his companions suspected.

It was more than twenty feet in length, with a cabin at the stern, a place for a mast, though there was neither mast nor sail on board.

Anderson had spoken of paddling to this point, when, had he spoken correctly, he would have said that no paddles were used, but that the craft was propelled by means of poles..