The ground was rough, often with layers of coral, and he saw on all sides of him dense groves of bushes, among which he recognized the banana by the fruit.

It gave him a thrill of relief.

At all events here was food of a kind, and they would not starve to death.

It was the first time he had thought of food.

Hitherto he had been occupied wholly with the struggle for immediate life.
A belt of tall trees shut out the hill toward which he had been steering, and he was uncertain.