I woke next morning with a great thrill of exhilaration. Perhaps
before the sun went down again I should know the secret of the
island.
The two divisions of our party, which were designated by me
privately the Land and Sea Forces, went their separate ways
directly after breakfast, which we ate in the cool of earliest
morning, I could retire to the perusal of the journal which I had
recovered from the wrecked sloop without fear of interruption.