When, an hour later, they returned from their exploration, bringing with them a brace of ducks and half a dozen doves that they had shot, they gazed about them in bewildered dismay. The canoes were not where they had left them, nor could any trace of them be discovered.
[B] Crawl is a corruption of corral, meaning a yard or pen.
"THE CANOES ARE GONE!"
Chapter VII.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CANOES.
"The canoes are gone!" cried Worth.
"It looks like it," replied Sumner, in an equally dismayed tone.
"Are you sure this is where we left them?"
"Yes; sure. There is the stern line that we made fast to the Cupid, or what is left of it."