The Eleuthera was so well covered up with trees and bushes that she was not likely to be discovered, unless some wanderer penetrated the thicket that surrounded her.

A gentle elevation was directly before them, so that they could not see the town.
"We must not walk ten miles in making five," said the detective, as he produced a pocket compass.

"Our course, as I took it from the chart, is due north, though it may bring us in at the western end of the town." "Then we can bear a little to the east, though if we get to the town it will not make much difference where we strike it," added Christy.
The land showed the remains of plantations which had flourished there in the palmy days of the island.

The ruins of several mansions and many small huts were seen.

Cocoa-nut palms and orange-trees were abundant.
After they had walked about a mile, they came upon what had been a road in former days, and was evidently used to some extent still.