Adrift in the Coracle, Onto the Hispaniola

1 Jim wakes in his coracle, a tiny dot on the grey swell below Haulbowline Head's cliffs

2 Jim peers from his coracle at two or three score sea lions barking on the rocks

3 Jim sits up to paddle, and the coracle drives its nose into the next wave in spray

4 Parched and salt-caked, Jim stares from his coracle at the Hispaniola under white sail

5 Thirsty and adrift, Jim Hawkins grips his paddle and eyes the unsteered Hispaniola

6 The breeze dies and the drifting Hispaniola turns her stern to Jim.

7 The unsteered Hispaniola swings round and bears down on Jim, towering over his coracle

8 Jim is on the crest of a swell in his small coracle.

9 Jim leaps from the sinking coracle at the Hispaniola's jib-boom as her bow stoops on him

10 Seen from the jib-boom, the schooner's stem drives the swamped coracle under the foam