For food McTee climbed a coconut palm and knocked down some of the fruit.

They split the gourds open on a rock, drank the liquor, and ate heartily of the meat.

That quelled their appetites, but the sweet liquor only partially appeased their thirst, and they started to search the island for a spring.

First they went to the center of the place to a small hill, and from the top of this they surveyed their domain.

The island was not more than a thousand yards in width and three or four miles in length.