He then alighted.
His friends were twenty feet from the bank.
They laid pretty close together, but were out of his reach.
Rushing in among the shrubbery. Jack rapidly cut down a number of cedar trees, and swiftly carried them to the quicksand.
With these he built a rude bridge out to his friends.
Even the trees began to sink in the sand as he walked out on them, but he reached Tim, and seizing him by the arm, he exerted all his enormous strength, and succeeded in pulling him up.
Jack cut his bonds.
"Don't waste a moment," he gasped, "but go ashore and cut some more of the cedars to pile on these."
"Ay, ay," replied Tim, and he hastened away.
Timberlake was next nearest.