The leader uttered a shout of triumph when he saw the water gleaming through the trees.
"I told you it was here, didn't I, Jose ?" he said.

"Trust me, a sailor though I am, to read the lay of the land." The spring as it ran from under a rock formed a little pool, and all of the men knelt down, drinking with noise and gurglings.

Then the leader walked back toward the beach, and fired both shots from a double-barreled pistol into the air.

Robert judged that it was a signal, probably to indicate that they had found water.

Presently a second and larger boat, containing at least a dozen men, put out from the schooner.
A third soon followed and both brought casks which were filled at the spring and which they carried back to the ship.
Robert, still and well hidden, watched everything, and he was glad that he had obeyed his instinct not to trust them.