Ensigns Darrin and Dalzell will then steam back and report to Lieutenant Cantor.

Under slow speed it will take the launches, commanded by the two ensigns, each about an hour and ten minutes to reach their respective lagoon destinations.
It will take the lieutenant just under thirty minutes to reach the Alvarez lagoon.

Ensign Dalzell will go to the Perdita lagoon, and Ensign Darrin to the Acunda lagoon.

Forty minutes after Dalzell and Darrin have steamed away, Lieutenant Cantor will run in to the Alvarez mill.

Our launches are not likely to be observed from shore, where the '_Long Island_,' if she remained in these waters, would be sure to be seen and recognized.
"Therefore, after dropping the steamers, we shall go ahead at cruising speed and not return opposite the Alvarez mill until called by a rocket, which Lieutenant Cantor will send up as soon as the rescue has been accomplished---or has failed.