Chapter XI.

In thg Tract Business.—Effects of the Rise.—Plantations gone.

—A Measureless Sea.—A Somnambulist Pilot.—Supernatural Piloting.

—Nobody there.—All Saved.

CHAPTER XII.

Low Water.—Yawl sounding.—Buoys and Lanterns.—Cubs and

Soundings.—The Boat Sunk.—Seeking the Wrecked.