They pursued and soon overtook it.

It proved to be the entire deck of the Ariel's cuddy.

Augustus was struggling near it, apparently in the last agonies.

Upon getting hold of him it was found that he was attached by a rope to the floating timber.

This rope, it will be remembered, I had myself tied around his waist, and made fast to a ringbolt, for the purpose of keeping him in an upright position, and my so doing, it appeared, had been ultimately the means of preserving his life.