“You can see the skeletons chained at the oar-benches.”
“Yes—just as they went down.”
“There are strange sounds here at night.”
“Bubbles come up, and shouts, and awful shrieks.”
“Hope we shan’t hear them when we’re in our hut.”
“No; it’s too far.”
They sailed between New Formosa and Serendib, and homewards through Mozambique to the harbour. The east wind, like the west, was a there-and-back wind, and they could reach their island, or return from it, in two or three tacks, sometimes in one stretch.