round him; that would have been torture indeed!"

"Perhaps I was wrong. If so, may Providence forgive me, I could not
help it. Let us go ashore, for we are now on this island alone. We
must collect the treasure and bury it, so that it may be recovered; and,
at the same time, take a portion with us; for who knows but that we may
have occasion for it. Tomorrow we had better remain here, for we shall
have enough to do in burying the bodies of these infatuated men, and the
wealth which has caused their destruction."

Philip agreed to the propriety of the suggestion; the next day they
buried the bodies where they lay; and the treasure was all collected in
a deep trench, under a cocoa-nut tree, which they carefully marked with
their axe. About five hundred pieces of gold were selected and taken on
board of the raft with the intention of secreting them about their
persons, and resorting to them in case of need.

The following morning they hoisted their sail and quitted the island.
Need it be said in what direction they steered? As may be well
imagined, in that quarter where they had last seen the raft with the
isolated Amine.

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN.

The raft was found to answer well, and although her progress through the
water was not very rapid, she obeyed the helm and was under command.
Both Philip and Krantz were very careful in taking such marks and
observations of the island as should enable them, if necessary, to find
it again. With the current to assist them they now proceeded rapidly to
the southward, in order that they might examine a large island which lay
in that direction. Their object, after seeking for Amine was to find
out the direction of Ternate; the king of which they knew to be at
variance with the Portuguese, who had a fort and factory at Tidore, not
very far distant from it; and from thence to obtain a passage in one of
the Chinese junks, which, on their way to Bantam, called at that island.

Towards evening they had neared the large island, and they soon ran down
it close to the beach. Philip's eyes wandered in every direction to
ascertain whether anything on the shore indicated the presence of
Amine's raft, but he could perceive nothing of the kind, nor did he see
any inhabitants.

That they might not pass the object of their search during the night,
they ran their raft on shore, in a small cove where the waters were
quite smooth, and remained there until the next morning, when they a