krises. If we were to leave them to themselves, they would fight
to the death; and, after all, it was no one's fault in particular.
Mr. Balderson and I were watching them; one was crossing the ship's
bow just as the other came out from her side, and they were into
each other before either had time to hold their boat up."

"That chap the doctor is bandaging up was in a nice taking about his
child, sir; it was a lucky job that you and Mr. Balderson happened
to catch sight of her."

"Yes, poor little thing! It was only just a glimpse we got of her
face; but as we were looking for her, and ready to dive, it was
enough."

"Lucky we are inside the bar, Mr. Parkhurst, or the sharks would
have had half the fellows."

"I did not think of it at the time, Davis, and it would not have
made any difference if I had; we were only in the water a couple of
minutes, and the Malays were making noise enough to frighten away
any number of sharks. You will have the job of washing out our
trousers again--we had only put them on clean half an hour before."

"That aint no matter, sir, especially if you go down and change at
once; the mud will come out easy enough if I leave them in a bucket
of fresh water for half an hour."

The two midshipmen joined the group of officers who were standing
near the doctor; the latter had, on closer examination, announced
that four of the ribs were broken. He had finished his work just