"Away, lads, and pick up that man." "It's of no use," remonstrated Scraggs; "he's done for by this time." "I know it," said Manton, with a fierce oath; "bring him in, dead or alive.

If the sharks leave an inch of him, bring it to me.

I'll make the black villains eat it raw." This ferocious threat was interlarded with and followed by a series of terrible oaths, which we think it inadvisable to repeat.
"Starboard!" he shouted to the man at the helm, as soon as the boat shot away on its mission of mercy.
"Starboard it is." "Steady!" While he gave these orders, Manton sighted the brass gun carefully, and, just as the schooner's head came up to the wind, he applied the match.
Instantly a cloud of smoke obscured the center of the little vessel, as if her powder magazine had blown up, and a deafening roar went ringing and reverberating from cliff to cliff as two of the great iron shot were sent groaning through the air and pitched right into the heart of the village.
It was this tremendous shot from Long Tom, followed almost instantaneously by the broadside of the Talisman, that saved the life of Alice,--possibly the lives of her young companions also; that struck terror to the hearts of the savages, causing them to converge towards their defenseless homes from all directions, and that apprised Ole Thorwald and Henry Stuart that the assault on the village had commenced in earnest..