I believe he expected the men in his boat to row directly to the Florida coast, where they would find quick dispatch to Savannah.
Poor Corny was disconsolate, and cried bitterly.

I think I heard her mother call back to her, but I am not sure about it.

There was so much to see and hear.

And yet I had been so busy with what I had had to do that I had seen comparatively little of what was going on around me.
One thing, however, I had noticed, and it impressed me deeply even at the time.

There was none of the wailing and screaming and praying that I had supposed was always to be seen and heard at such dreadful times as this.