Jeekie hit him on the head and bade him be silent, but he took no notice, even when he hit him again more heavily.
Presently came the climax.

The man sprang up in the canoe, causing it to rock from side to side.

He pointed to the full moon above and howled more loudly than before; he pointed to something that he seemed to see in the air near by and gibbered as though in terror.

Then his eyes fixed themselves upon the water at which he stared.
Harder and harder he stared, his head sinking lower every moment, till at length without another sound, very quietly and unexpectedly he went over the side of the boat.

For a few seconds they saw his bright-coloured garments sinking to the depths, then he vanished.
They waited a while, expecting that he would rise again.