Remember that excellent maxim, God helps those who help themselves.

Let us all consider what is best to do now." "Let us leap into the sea," cried Fritz, "and swim to the shore." "Very well for you," replied Ernest, "who can swim; but we should be all drowned.

Would it not be better to construct a raft and go all together ?" "That might do," added I, "if we were strong enough for such a work, and if a raft was not always so dangerous a conveyance.

But away, boys, look about you, and seek for anything that may be useful to us." We all dispersed to different parts of the vessel.

For my own part I went to the provision-room, to look after the casks of water and other necessaries of life; my wife visited the live stock and fed them, for they were almost famished; Fritz sought for arms and ammunition; Ernest for the carpenter's tools.