We succeeded in dragging them, as well as we could, out of the reach of the tide; our dogs, in the mean time, fishing for crabs, with which they regaled themselves, much to their own satisfaction and to mine, as I now saw they would be able to provide their own food.

As we rested from our rough labour, I saw Flora scratching in the sand, and swallowing something with great relish.

Ernest watched, and then said, very quietly, 'They are turtles' eggs.' We drove away the dog, and collected about two dozen, leaving her the rest as a reward for her discovery.
"While we were carefully depositing our spoil in the game-bags, we were astonished at the sight of a sail.

Ernest was certain it was papa and Fritz, and though Francis was in dread that it should be the savages who visited Robinson Crusoe's island, coming to eat us up, we were soon enabled to calm his fears.

We crossed the river by leaping from stone to stone, and, hastening to the landing-place, arrived to greet you on your happy return." "And I understand, my dear," said I, "that you have discovered a tree sixty feet high, where you wish we should perch like fowls.