816 THE MUTINEERS’ SURPRISE.

Being on shore, the first thing they did, they ran all to thei
other boat; and it was easy to see that they were under a great
surprise to find her stripped, as above, of all that was in her, and
a great hole in her bottom.

After they had mused a while upon this, they set up two or three
great shouts, hallooing with all their might, to try if they could

make their companions hear; but all was to no purpose. Then

 

“HALLOOLING WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT, TO TRY LF THEY COULD

MAKE THEIR COMPANIONS HEAR,”

they came all close in a ring, and fired a volley of their small arms;
which indeed we heard, and the echoes made the woods ring, but
it was all one; those in the cave, we were sure, could not hear; and
those in our keeping, though they heard it well enough, yet durst
give no answer to them.