I began to fear that the cords would never chafe through enough for me to snap them, and my heart fell terribly.
Now there was a shout from Thorgils, and his men stopped rowing.

I heard another shout from on shore, as it seemed, and the sound of breakers on rocks was not so very distant as we slipped into smooth water.

The men trampled across the deck over my head and cast the mooring ropes ashore, and then the ship scraped along a landing stage of some sort and came to rest.

I worked wildly at the rope.
Judging from the voices I heard, there seemed to be a number of people on shore, and soon I heard steps coming along the deck towards the cabin door.

Hastily I straightened myself, and got a fold of my blanket over my free forearm just as it opened, and Evan peered in.