I looked about me.

As the sudden beams of the tropic sun illumined the placid sea, I saw immediately before me, only a hundred yards away, an island.

A sandy beach sloped back to a rocky eminence, broken with scrub and jungle.

I could see a little stream leaping among the rocks.

With eager haste I paddled the raft close to the shore till it ground in about ten inches of water.
I leaped into the water.
With the aid of a stout line, I soon made the raft fast to a rock.