He leaped to his feet and scanned the sea in every direction; but as the atmosphere was a little hazy, he could discover no vessel from which the missile could have been thrown.

Thinking that it was possibly a chance shot from the fort, he paid no more attention to it, until he was aroused by another one shrieking overhead and striking the cliffs a few hundred yards below.

Then by closer observation, he could see the dim outlines of a Chilean ship fully twelve miles away.
It proved to be the Huascar, that had received some new and powerful guns, practicing.

The sloop was anchored in a less exposed place in a very few moments.
The next morning Boyton engaged in quite a lively adventure.

He was about to dive over from the side of the sloop into the cool water for a bath, when he saw some dark object moving on the bottom and checked himself.