Besides, some passing vessel will give me a lift, no doubt.

Then I will coast along to one of the eastern ports, where I know there is a steamboat loading up about this time.

The captain is an old friend of mine.

He brought me and my companions the greater part of the way here.

If I find him I will ask him to carry my canoe on his return voyage through Sunda Straits, and leave it with another friend of mine at Telok Betong on the south coast of Sumatra--not far, as you know, from my home in Krakatoa.