The whole surface of the bay was literally strewn with the struggling and drowning wretches, and on shore matters were even worse.

They seemed utterly appalled by the suddenness and completeness of their discomfiture, and made no efforts at assisting one another.

At length we observed a total change in their demeanour.

From absolute stupor, they appeared to be, all at once, aroused to the highest pitch of excitement, and rushed wildly about, going to and from a certain point on the beach, with the strangest expressions of mingled horror, rage, and intense curiosity depicted on their countenances, and shouting, at the top of their voices, "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" Presently we saw a large body go off into the hills, whence they returned in a short time, carrying stakes of wood.

These they brought to the station where the crowd was the thickest, which now separated so as to afford us a view of the object of all this excitement.