going
about four knots an hour, I should think, and I don't suppose she is
going more than one. In about ten hours we must begin to look about for
her."

Before the end of that time the sea had gone quite down, and the wind
had fallen so light that Godfrey thought they were scarce making three
knots an hour. "I hope it won't fall altogether," he said, "for as we
have no paddles it would be awkward for us."

"Two of the bottom boards will do for paddles."

"Yes, I know that, Luka, I am steering with one of them; but they would
do very little good, for they are so thin that they would break off
directly we put any strength on to them."

Godfrey occasionally stood up and looked round, but could see no signs
of the boat, and indeed could hardly have done so unless he had passed
within a couple of miles at most of her.

"The wind may have changed a little," he said, "though I don't think it
has done so. Anyhow, I will head a little more to the south, so as to be
sure that we shall strike the shore to the east both of the Kara River
and the point she is likely to drift to."

Four hours later they made out land ahead of them, some six miles away
as they guessed, and holding on reached it in two hours and a half's
time. They stepped out as soon as they got into shallow water, carried
the canoe ashore, drank a mug of cold tea and ate some raw meat, and
then lay down for a long sleep. When they woke they collected some
drift-wood and lighting a fire, cooked some meat.

"What are you going to do, Godfrey?" Luka asked. "Are you going to set
out at once to look for the boat?"

"No, we had better wait for a few hours. She may not have drifted to the
shore yet, though I do not think she can be far off; still it is as well
to give her plenty of time. At any rate we can shoot some birds, so the
time won't be lost."

Having made a fair bag and been absent from the canoe for five hours
they returned, and after cutting up a capercailzie and grilling it over
the fire, they got the boat into the water and started.

They had sailed about eight miles to the west when Luka exclaimed,
"There is something there by the shore close to that point. It may be
the boat; it may be a rock."

It was another quarter of an hour before Godfrey was able to assure
himself that it was really the boat. "Thank God for that, Luka!" he
exclaimed. "We have reason to thank Him for a great many things. I do so
every hour, and I hope you do so too. But fi