You do have to pull.

That's where the race is, and it would carry you out to--oh ?" The boy was looking down between his legs as he spoke; and the midshipman just had time to dart forward his hand, catch him by the shoulder, and drag him back, or he would have gone off the rock.
Ram lurched over sidewise, his sun-browned face mottled and strange-looking, as his head dropped slowly over on to the midshipman's shoulder, where it lay for a good ten minutes, Archy passing his arm round the boy, and supporting him as he lay there, breathing heavily, with his eyes half-closed.
It was a terrible position; and a cold, damp perspiration bedewed the midshipman's face, as he felt how near they both were to a terrible end.
The deep water after that awful fall, the fierce current which would carry him out to sea--and then came shuddering thoughts of the great, long, serpent-like congers, of whose doings horrible stories were current among the sailors.
At last, to his great relief, Ram uttered a deep sigh, and sat up, smiling at his companion.
"I've felt like that before," he said.

"Come over all at once sick and giddy, like you do if you lean down too much in the sun.

I should have gone over, shouldn't I, if you hadn't ketched me ?" "Don't talk about it." "Oh, very well; it was hitting my head such a crack, I suppose.

I say, though, you never thought you could get away down here, did you ?" "Meant to try," said Archy laconically.
"Yah! What was the good, I knowed you wouldn't; but I meant to fetch you back.