Wonder it hadn't hit some of them." "Well, it's the best thing we could do," said Kit.

"Even if some of them had been hit, it would be better than fighting them out here." "Still, I am very glad not to have slaughtered any of the poor creatures," remarked Raed.
"Don't say too much; they may come back," Capt.

Mazard observed.
But, though there was not sufficient wind to enable us to get away till three o'clock the next day, we saw nothing more of them..