hat way?"

"Himmel, Eric, you're a grand fellow," exclaimed Fritz, in honest
admiration of the proposal. "I declare I never thought of such a simple
thing as that. Of course it can be done. What a stupid I was, not to
think of it! That old goat must have knocked all my seven senses out of
my head; for, I declare I never recollected that there was any other way
of getting down from here save by the waterfall gully!"

"Ah, well, there is another way," said Eric, laughing joyously. "But,
really we must now see about using it, for I don't want you to remain up
here all night when you may be so much more comfortable in the hut. I
will scramble down and fetch round the boat at once, if there is nothing
more I can do for you before I go--is there anything you wish?"

"No, nothing, now that you've raised my head and propped it up so nicely
with your coat. I should be glad, though, if you will bring a can of
water with you when you come back with the boat."

"Stay, I'll get some for you now!" cried the lad; and, flying across the
plateau, he was soon half-way down a niche in the gully whence he could
reach the cascade. In a few minutes more, he was up again on the
tableland and by the side of Fritz, with his cap full of the welcome
water, which tasted to the sufferer, already feverish from the bullet
wound--which Eric had bandaged up to stop the bleeding--more delicious
than nectar, more strengthening than wine. It at once brought the
colour back to his cheek and the fire to his eye.

"Ha!" Fritz exclaimed, "that draught has made a new man of me, laddie.
You may be off as soon as you please, now, to fetch the boat; while I
will wait patiently here until you can bring it round the headland.
How's the wind?"

"South-east and by south," cried the young sailor promptly.

"That will be all in your favour, then. Go now, laddie, and don't be
longer than you can help."

"You may depend on that," cried Eric, pressing his brother's hand
softly; and, in another moment, he was racing again across the plateau
to the point where the two had ascended from the gully by the waterfall.

Ere long, Eric had brought round the whale-boat to the haunt of the
seals on the west beach; when, after a good deal of labour, in which he
could not help hurting Fritz somewhat, he succeeded in getting the
sufferer down the sloping rocks. Thence, he lifted him bodily into the
stern-sheets of the boat, where he had prepared a comfortable couch