"A Canoe!"
"A canoe?"
"Yes! Savages! Quite a fleet of savages! Cannibals, perhaps!"
Godfrey looked in the direction pointed out.
It was not a fleet, as the distracted Tartlet had said; but he was only mistaken about the quantity.
In fact, there was a small vessel gliding through the water, now very calm, about half-a-mile from the coast, so as to double Flag Point.
"And why should they be cannibals?" asked Godfrey, turning towards the professor.
"Because in Crusoe Islands," answered Tartlet, "there are always cannibals, who arrive sooner or later."
"Is it not a boat from some merchant-ship?"