Clambering over fallen tree trunks and tripping over creeping vines made my way across the center of the island until atlas T came out ea the eastern side.
Here I saw the same level shelf of coral below the beach, but on this side it ran out for nearly a thousand yards and, before it reached deep water, there lay a rocky island which seemed to stand much higher than was on. It was Bare of was covered with bright green grass and low bushes. This, I learned later, was Rocky Island and rose to forty feet in height.
The tide was coming in now and the coral shelf was covered with {wo feet of water. T could have waded across to Rocky Island, but even in this shallow water the thought of the sharks which infest these seas" de-
{erred me, Turning southward along the beac I started to. make my way back to where the old pier was.
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