"When that is finished we will take you off and proceed on our voyage." "You had better put a bullet through my head." "I don't think so.

It is no great hardship for you to stay a few hours on that rock.

You have had your dinner, and you will not starve to death.

I don't think you will have to stay there long, for that steamer draws too much water to come in among these reefs, and she will be hard and fast on one of the shoals before she goes much farther." "Possibly her captain knows what he is about as well as you do," suggested Christy.
"I don't believe he does.

There isn't a fathom of water on some of these shoals." But the Chateaugay kept on her course, though she proceeded very slowly.
When she was off the Gingerbread Cay she stopped her screw, and she was near enough for the observer to see that she was lowering at least two boats into the water.