One pulled hard, the other backed water, and by their united efforts the boat was forced into an eddy close under the cliff; and to their amazement the boys found that they were being carried in the opposite direction to that in which the main body of the water was racing along.
"You vill escape and climb ze cliff?
No, _mes enfans_," said the captain: "you cannot climb.

You vill take my boat to go avay?
Aha! you sink so?
No, it is not for you to manage ze boat.

She vill capsize herself if you try." Vince said nothing, but eagerly looked around; but it was everywhere the same--the roaring waters tearing wildly along in the crater-like cove, and from their seat in the boat no entrance, no exit, was visible.
"Now I take you bose and drop you ovaire-board: you sink, you go home ?" said the captain, showing his teeth.

"Yaas, you go home, but not to see ze _bon papa_, ze _belle maman_.

It is not possible.