“And dip our arrows and spear’s in the juice.”
“No one ever gets well after being shot with them.”
“If the wind blows hard ashore and there are no harbours it will be awful with the savages all along waiting for us.”
“We shall see them dancing and shouting with bows and throw-sticks, and yelling.”
“That’s you and me.”
“Of course. And very likely if the wind is very hard we shall have to let down the sails, and fling out an anchor and stay till the gale goes down.”
“The anchor may drag.”
“Then we shall crash on the rocks.”
“And swim ashore.”
“You can’t. There’s the breakers and the savages behind them. I shall stop on the wreck, and the sun will go down.”