"The foreign warships are in sight! They have spotted us and are running this way!"
CHAPTER XV.
TIDAL WAVES AND WHALES.
It was a perilous situation, of this there could be no doubt.
The tidal wave had cast the Holland XI. high and dry on the Hawaiian shore, where she lay as helpless as a whale on a grassy plain.
In the offing loomed up three foreign warships, a Chinese, a Japanese and a Russian.
The enemy had already sighted the new Holland, and were drawing closer to the curious-looking craft.
The submarine boat had landed on the shore right side up, and Captain Oscar Pelham and Lieutenant Andy Greggs had just come to the little deck to view the situation.
"We are knocked out this trip," groaned Andy. "As soon as they learn who we are they'll throw a shell this way and that will finish us."
"Let us see if we can't train one of our guns on them," suggested the young captain.