"Do you ?" "No," Ned replied.

"I don't, Tom.

These savages know that they have cut us off, and will be on the watch, you may be sure.

They shoot so straight, with those little bows and arrows of theirs, that we should be killed without the least chance of ever getting to close quarters.

Besides, the admiral will doubtless believe that we have been slain, and will sail away.