Hogan has gone back to Chicago to make a report to Hobart, and the rest have scattered like a covey of partridges.

Not one of them has a thought but that we went down in the _Seminole_.

Now they'll pull off their graft, and pull it quick." "And what will you do ?" "Get safely ashore first.

It will be dark in less than an hour; but we are too far out yet to venture swimming.

We shall have to hang tight to the raft a while yet, and drift; the current is carrying us all right.