Probably there were not three men in the entire band who had ever seen a revolver.
They could not understand it; they thought there must be a dozen men behind Harry, and they scattered like sheep.
This gave Jack his chance.
Of course he had his revolvers, too, but the Arabs had come upon him so suddenly that there had been no chance to draw them.
He did it now in an instant and ran to Harry’s side.
“Make for the boat!” he cried. “You’ve given them the scare! We can do it!”
They ran for dear life, Jack firing as he went.
In a moment they were at the boat.
They seized the gunwale and pushed it off, jumped in, and throwing out their oars, began to pull away.
By this time the pirates had in a measure recovered from their fright.