"They didn't look this way simply because they didn't hear us.

I'm sure of that, from the way they acted.
I began to think so when I told you to hang to the raft.

I believed that if I could overtake the sloop, and could climb aboard and make myself known, or knock them down, as my intention was, I could then release Inza and sail the sloop over here and get you.

But I couldn't swim fast enough." "You went through the water like a fish!" "But the sloop went faster.

If that breeze hadn't sprung up, I think I could have made it." "And what are they doing with Inza ?" "I don't know.