CHAPTER VI.
ADVENTURES IN THE FOREST.
The sight that met our gaze was a small boat dancing far out beyond the breakers. It contained three men, and as it came in closer, through the opening by which we had entered, we made out Tom Dawson, Ah Sid, the Chinese cook, and Matt Gory, an Irish sailor.
"It is Dawson's craft," murmured Watt Brown. "But it's only got three men aboard instead of five."
"Dan Holbrook is missing!" I gasped, and once again my heart sank like a lump of lead within my bosom.
"Boat ahoy!" yelled Vincent and the others, and the cry was speedily returned. Then Tom Dawson noted where we had run in, and ten minutes later beached his craft beside our own.
"Glad to see ye!" he cried, as he caught one after another by the hand. "I was afraid all of the other boats had gone to the bottom."
"The captain's boat went down," answered Watt Brown soberly. "We saved Captain Kenny, but could see nothing of the rest."
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