One by one we followed him, armed and clad as we were, into the angry surf.

'Twas a perilous voyage, and had not the tide been full and high above the rocks, we should not have come out of it, some of us, sound in limb or wind.

Once or twice as I was flung upwards with a swirl almost upon the jagged cliff, I thought my last hour was come, and wondered whose eye would be dim at the news of my end.

Then, when, with a like swirl I was heaved back into the safety of deep water, I thought what a big venture was this, and who would not follow when Ludar led?
So, I scarce know how, we rounded the mouth of that resounding cave and stood panting on the narrow ledge on the far side.

I say, we stood--yet not all.