"That's where we are," replied Mr. Henderson.
He put his instruments away.
"Well, we may as well go below the surface again," he remarked.
"Come quick! Hurry up!" yelled Washington from the deck. "Dar's a shipwreck up heah! Somebody's on it!"
CHAPTER XV
THE STRANGE SHIPWRECK
The professor, followed by the boys and Tom, Bill and Andy hastened on deck. They saw Washington pointing excitedly off to the west. There, rising and falling on the easy swell, was the wreck of a large vessel.
She had been a three masted schooner, but now only the stumps of the masts remained and the craft was rolling to and fro. It had settled low in the water, and was quite deep by the head, so that, at times, the waves broke over the bow in a shower of spray.
But what attracted the attention of the adventurers more than anything else was the sight of two figures near what had been the after cabin of the ship.