nger which we faced. "If the boat cannot be stopped from
drifting on before a few more hundred yards are gone over, we are lost!"

We gripped the rude oars again, and strained till our arms ached, but
still the relentless current bore us on. I gave another glance at the
danger ahead, then Hassan wildly exclaimed:--

"Allah and Mahomet help us! We are on the verge of a cataract!"

[Illustration: "ON THE VERGE OF A CATARACT!"]

"Throw the treasure overboard!" cried Denviers, and each of us worked
desperately to free the boat of what we had been so eager to obtain.
Into the stream we cast the wedges of gold and Spanish arms, and
scarcely had our purpose been accomplished, when the boat, lightened of
its heavy cargo, was caught up by the rushing stream, swirled round, and
then borne madly forward at a rate which brought another despairing cry
from the woman's lips.

"Pull with all your might with the stream, Harold!" said Denviers to me,
as we drew close to where the roaring waters were leaping down. "Pull,
pull, it is our last chance!"

We both knew that if we failed to shoot the rapid ahead we should be
sucked down and drowned. We tugged at the oars together, then amid a
cloud of blinding spray our boat seemed to hover for a moment over the
tumbling waters, then shot forward and left the danger behind.

"We are saved, thank Allah!" cried Hassan, and as we ventured to look
round we saw the wonderful escape which had been ours. Swiftly we were
carried along by the stream, which began to widen out as it passed
between the precipitous sides of a vast ravine.

"Daylight at last!" I exclaimed, with a feeling of relief. "I wonder
where we are now being hurried towards."

For a considerable time the stream kept on its rapid course, then grew
less violent, and we floated down it gently at last, until we were
carried to where we saw the river flowing into the sea, when we at once
sprang out upon the rough coral beach.

The Formosan woman hastened away along the shore, making for the distant
cave by which we first entered into the strange haunt of her tribe,
while we followed slowly after her, having drawn the rude boat high up
on the beach.

"Well!" said Denviers, when at last we found our junk, after walking
several miles along the coast, and prepared to launch it into the sea in
order to leave the island. "We lost the treasure after all, but still we
have something left to recall this strange adventure at times," and