Even from their inconsiderable elevation they could see him until he must have been more than a mile away, and he soon after vanished from their view.
As on the previous day darkness came without the two American sailors, so now it came without the Englishman, and in the morning he had not returned.

Of course, every mind was filled with anxiety in regard to the three sailors, but Captain Horn's soul was racked with apprehensions of which he did not speak.

The conviction forced itself upon him that the men had been killed by wild beasts.

He could imagine no other reason why Davis should not have returned.

He had been ordered not to leave the beach, and, therefore, could not lose his way.