I knocked my toe against a rock, just now, and it was as much as I could do not to halloa.

I will be careful in future, I can tell you." An hour's walking brought them to a spot where the hill was rather less steep than usual.

They climbed up, until they gained a spot some fifty feet above the level of the river, and there sat down in a clump of bushes.
"As soon as it's daylight, we will choose a spot where we can show a signal, without the risk of it's being seen from below," James said.
"We mustn't go to sleep, for we must move directly the dawn commences, else those sentries below might make us out." At daybreak they shifted their position, and gained a spot completely hidden from below, but from which an entire view of the river could be obtained.
"Tide will be low in a couple of hours," the midshipman said.

"There are the fleet below.

They will come up with the first flood, so, in three or four hours, they will be abreast of us.