Against these, the savages could not swim.

And at that turn of the tide, paddling a canoe therein was almost equally difficult.

But the fugitives were not yet safe.

In full chase now came in sight the whale-boat manned by the Cholos, and four or five Islanders.

Whereat, making no doubt, that all the whites who left the vessel that morning had been massacred through the treachery of the half-breeds; and that the capture of the brigantine had been premeditated; Samoa now saw no other resource than to point his craft dead away from the land.
Now on came the devils buckling to their oars.