wounded; whilst the occupants of several other canoes received
injuries.

Quite a panic now ensued, and the fleet of canoes got inextricably
mixed. Several showers of arrows, however, descended on our deck,
and some of them penetrated the sails, but no one was injured. The
natives were too much afraid to advance any farther, and as a wind
had now sprung up we deemed it time to make a dash for liberty. We
therefore quietly slipped our anchor and, heading the ship for the
open sea, glided swiftly past the enemy's fleet, whose gaily
decked, though sorely bewildered, warriors greeted us with a
Parthian flight of arrows as we raced by. In another half-hour we
were well out to sea, and able to breathe freely once more.



CHAPTER II



The three black pearls--The fatal morning--Jensen and his flotilla
drift away--Alone on the ship--"Oil on the troubled waters"--A
substitute for a rudder--Smoke signals--The whirlpool--The savages
attack--I escape from the blacks--A strange monster--The Veielland
strikes a reef--Stone deaf through the big wave--I leap into the
sea--How Bruno helped me ashore--The dreary island--My raft--A
horrible discovery.


This adventure made our Malay crew very anxious to leave these