Do you make for the castle, and tell them that the ship has arrived, and that we will attack tomorrow; but not at daybreak, as we proposed, but at noon." As Ned proceeded on his way along the shore, he saw suddenly blaze up, far ahead at the landing place, a small bonfire.
"Ah!" he muttered to himself.

"The natives have seen the ship, too; and are following the usual custom, here, of making a fire to show them where to land.

I trust that they will not fall into the snare." When, however, he had reached within a quarter of a mile of the landing, he saw a small boat come suddenly within its range of light, and two white men step out of it.

They were received, apparently, with much respect by the natives assembled there, and at once advanced up the road; while the boat, putting off, disappeared in the darkness.
"They will be murdered," Ned said to himself, "before they have gone a hundred yards.

The natives were crafty enough to allow them to land without hindrance, in order that no suspicion might arise among those on board ship." In the stillness of the night he thought that he heard a distant cry.