From that he caught sight of him a long way down, swimming.
Once or twice he saw him turned heels over head--only to get his neck up again presently, and swim as well as before.

But alas! it was in the direction of the Daur, which would soon, his master did not doubt, sweep his carcase into the North Sea.

With troubled heart he strained his sight after him as long as he could distinguish his lessening head, but it got amongst some wreck, and unable to tell any more whether he saw it or not, he returned to his men with his eyes full of tears..