There's all our food, if they haven't found it." "Could you eat now ?" said Mike, with a look of horror.
"Eat?
I could almost eat you," replied Vince.
"Ugh!" said Mike, with a shudder.

"I feel so faint and sick and sinking inside, I couldn't touch anything." "Shouldn't like to trust you," said Vince, whom the bright sunshine and the beauty of the place were influencing in his spirits.

"But now, then, let's have a good look this time." They were going round swiftly enough, and noted the entrance to the first low, arched cavern, which was some forty or fifty yards to the westward of the seal hole; then they glided by the others in turn, and tried hard to make out how the men had managed to thrust the big boat through the running waters beyond that great beach and into the eddy which bore them in the other direction.
"Do you see ?" asked Mike.
"No, not yet; but perhaps I shall when we come round again.

But, I say, we can't keep on sailing round like this.

We must land." "But Jacques and his men, they won't be gone till to-night.