CHAPTER EIGHT.
HOW I RAN FROM THE WHITEBIRD CATCHERS.
Yes, I may as well own to it: I was terribly frightened, but my first thoughts were as to what had become of my companions.

Jack Penny and the doctor must have been seized at the same time as I.

Jimmy might have managed to escape.

Perhaps his black skin would make him be looked upon as a friend.

But the old captain, what about him?
He would return to the schooner with his men and be seized, and knocked on the head for certain.