SAILING ONWARDS When Felix awoke, he knew at once by the height of the sun that the morning was far advanced.

Throwing off his cloak, he stood up, but immediately crouched down again, for a vessel was passing but a short distance from the shore, and nearly opposite his encampment.

She had two masts, and from the flags flying, the numerous bannerets, and the movements of so many men on board, he knew her to be a ship of war.

He was anxious that he should not be seen, and regretted that his canoe was so much exposed, for the bush by which he had landed hid it only from one side.

As the shore was so bare and open, if they looked that way the men on board would hardly fail to see it, and might even distinguish him.