“Then it’s quite likely they got into another one.”
“It’s sartin.”
“Can you conjecture how they may have gone?”
“Wal, you see the current we came by was a kind of inside one that took us round the nighest island. Now, outside of that there was another current that kind V goes round the next island, which is a bigger one than the one we were at. I’ve been turnin’ it over in my head, and I cal’late that that there boat, jedgin’ by the course she took as she shot by us, got swept into the outer current, and was driven away around the outer island.”
“We couldn’t have been near her at all, then.”
“It seems not.”
“Where could they have been when we began to blow?”
“As near as I can cal’late, jedgin’ by the natur’ of the currents, and the course they took, they might have been off the farthest end of the other island.”
“How far away from the place where we were?”
“Over two miles—yes, more’n three miles.”