Can you see our little boat now, Robert ?" "Just faintly, and I think it's a last glimpse.

I hope the wind behind it will stay so strong that Tandakora will never overtake it.

I should hate to think that a canoe that has been such a friend to us has been compelled to serve our enemies.

There it goes, leading straight ahead, and now it's gone! Farewell, brave and loyal canoe! Now what do you intend to do, Dave ?" "Swim to the mainland as soon as those fires sink a little more.
We have got to decide when the head of a swimming man won't show to chance warriors in the bushes, and then make a dash for it, because, if Tandakora overtakes the canoe, he'll be coming back." "In a quarter of an hour it will be dark enough for us to risk it," said the Onondaga.
Again came the thick dusk so necessary to those who flee for life.

Two fires on the high cliffs blazed far in the south, but the light from them did not reach the island where the three lay, where peril had grazed them before going on.