"Splendid, splendid.

Couldn't have been better.

Excellent, Mr Herrick; ease her a little, ease her.
We must have a reef in that sail.

All left behind, then; no pursuit ?" and he looked astern as our boat rushed through the water, and then he frowned, for one of the men said-- "Yes, sir; here's one on 'em from the shore coming arter us full sail, and she's going as fast as we." And once more, as I looked behind me, holding on the while by the tiller, I seemed to see the inside of a Chinese prison after we had been pretty well stoned to death; for it was a good-sized boat that was gliding after us at a rapid rate, and threatening to overtake us before long..