22/33 The boats passed through the thick curtain of trees, which hung down over the water's edge. A minute passed, and then three others were ordered to follow them. Did you ?" "Well, I think I did hear something, captain. It seems to me as I heard a sort of scuffle." "But they never could surprise some thirty or forty men, without the alarm being given ?" "It depended what sort of men they were," Nat said scornfully. "They wouldn't surprise men that knew their business; but those chaps would just jump out of their boats, as if they was landed on a quay at New York, and would scatter about among the bushes. |