The rest of the proceedings savoured of a "glorious rag", for on making fast alongside the yacht the crews began shouting, firing Verey lights, beating suspended brass crutches, banging tin balers with stretchers, and raising pandemonium generally. In the midst of the hubbub Harborough and Villiers came on deck, just as Swaine, forestalling his comrades, was sounding a terrific tocsin on the _Titania's_ bell. "What the----" began Harborough. "We've come off to splice the main-brace, sir," shouted Beverley. "Have you?" rejoined the baronet. "For what reason?" The answer, issuing simultaneously from a dozen lusty throats, was unanimous and emphatic: "We've found the _Fusi Yama_!" CHAPTER XXII Von Giespert hears News "Gott in Himmel!" exclaimed Kaspar von Giespert. "Don't say that you've had no luck." "Ach, Herr Kapitan," replied Strauss, in the tone of a man repeating a venerable formula, "no luck at all." For fifteen evenings almost the same exchange of words had taken place. For fifteen days, without respite, even when the sun was directly overhead, the crew of the _Zug_ had laboured, at first with a remarkable display of energy, in their efforts to locate the wreck of the _Fusi Yama_ in the lagoon of Ni Telang. Almost every square yard of the enclosed sheet of water had been swept by means of drags, grapnels, and bighted ropes. Divers had gone down whenever any obstruction had given rise to the hope that the object of the quest had been found, only to ascend with the disconcerting report that the grapnel had fouled a lump of coral rock. Von Giespert took very little active part in the operations. He was content to leave the "donkey work" to Strauss, and spent most of the day living in a hammock-chair under double awnings. He had counted upon finding the wreck with the minimum of trouble. As the days passed and Harborough's time-limit grew nearer, von Giespert began to feel anxious, and anxiety soon began to give place to feelings of desperation. Up to a certain point the rough chart, which Harborough had purposely allowed his rivals to filch, had proved accurate. To a certain extent it would have served equally well for Ni Telang or Nua Leha, for in either case there was a strong geographical resemblance between the two lagoons, their entrances, and the islands themselves, even to the triple peaks. The latitude and longitude of the former island as stated on the chart agreed to a second with the results of von Giespert's readings of the sextant and chronometer. The only flaw--a very important one--was the fact that the wreck obstinately refused to allow itself to be found.