You and I must start around the island in opposite directions, because if we went together we might follow them round and round like a kitten chasing its tail.

If you meet them, bring them back here, and I will do the same.

If you don't meet them, keep on until you are half-way down the other side of the island, or exactly opposite this point; then strike directly into the timber, and so make a short-cut back here.

In that way you will reach this place again as soon as I, for the island isn't more than three hundred yards wide just here.

Be spry, now, and remember that the safety of your raft depends largely upon the promptness with which we get those other fellows here." With this Mr.Gilder began to walk rapidly down the shore in the direction he had chosen.