Knowing we had followed off to the left, they embarked, and came paddling along to pick us up.

They came up; and we got in with our kittiwakes, and then stood off a few yards to wait for the negro.

I had not expected he would be gone so long.

We were looking for him every moment; when suddenly we heard the report of his musket, apparently a long way behind the crag.
"Confound the darky!" muttered Raed.

"What could possess him to go so far ?" "Perhaps the eagle kept flying on," suggested Kit.
We waited fifteen or twenty minutes.