—"Do not paddle, Stéphane!—do not put thy hand in the water again!"
III
... The La Guayra was a point on the sky-verge;—the sun's face had vanished. The silence and the darkness were deepening together.
—"Si lanmè ka vini plis fò, ça nou ké fai?" (If the sea roughens, what are we to do?) asked Maximilien.
—"Maybe we will meet a steamer," answered Stéphane: "the Orinoco was due to-day."
—"And if she pass in the night?"
—"They can see us."...
—"No, they will not be able to see us at all. There is no moon."
—"They have lights ahead."
—"I tell thee, they will not see us at all,—pièss! pièss!"