I am feeling the weight of my boots and clothes.
"Will you swim with us till I can touch the ground, and then leave us?
Strike right into the river again--I know that you are a good swimmer--and drop down the stream until you reach one of the islands, and then you can land and hail the gunboats as they come down.

Tell Captain Keppel why I jumped over." "I am not going to leave you, master.

No doubt the Dervishes will shoot me, but my life is of no consequence, and I shall be glad to die by the side of so good a master." The woman, who had ceased to struggle when Gregory shook off her grasp, was now conscious; as, with one of them supporting her on each side, her head was above water.
"They will not kill you," she said.

"You have saved me, and they will be grateful." Gregory had no faith whatever in Dervish gratitude.
"Well, Zaki," he said, "if you will not leave us, we will strike at once for the shore.

The gunboats are nearly half a mile away now.