nd would have fallen had not Barry caught her. Then,
overcome by excitement and physical pain, she began to sob.

Barry lifted her up in his arms and carried her back to the tree again.
"There, sit down again, and don't try to talk now," he said kindly;
"why, what is this--your foot is covered with blood." Kneeling beside
her he lifted her bare left foot, and saw that the blood was welling
from a fearful gaping cut, right under the arch.

"I trod upon the edge of a _foli_ which was buried in the sand," she
managed to say, and then almost fainted with pain.

Hastily binding his handkerchief around the wounded foot, to stay
further loss of blood, Barry again lifted her in his arms, and carried
her down to the boat, which had pulled up, and was now abreast of them.

"I must get your foot washed and bound up," he said, as he laid her
down in the stern, and made a pillow of his coat.

Unable to speak from the intense pain she was enduring, the woman only
moaned in reply, as Barry and Velo washed her foot with fresh water,
and cleansed the cut carefully--making sure by probing it with a pocket
knife that no piece of foli[1] shell or stone was left in the wound.
Satisfied that all was right, Barry bound up the foot again with Velo's
cotton shirt, which he tore into strips.

The woman thanked him feebly, but as she again seemed inclined to
faint, he gave her some strong brandy and water. She drank it eagerly,
and then laid her head on the pillowed coat again, but quickly raised
it when she heard Velo calling to her two companions, who, overcoming
their fear, had now approached nearer to the boat, and presently they
both came up, trembling in every limb.

"They want to know if she is dead, sir," said Velo, who could
understand a few words of what they said.

Barry made a kindly gesture to the strange, wild-looking creatures, who
were young and handsome, to come and look. They did so, and the moment
they saw their mistress they jumped into the boat and crouched beside
her, patting her hands and smiling at her affectionately.

It was now nearly sunset, and time to decide upon quarters for the
night, and as there was an abandoned native house within a few hundred
yards of where the boat lay, it was at once taken possession of.

"I cannot take you on board the ship to-night," said Barry to the
women, "and I don't want you to talk too much when you are so weak, but
tell me this--will there be any danger if we sleep on s