Jack looked again, and the object he had mistaken for a seaman's white shirt resolved itself into the white belly of a shark, the creature being employed in gnawing the throat of its victim. "Dat is what dey always do," observed the black coolly. "Dey drag down by de feet, and den dey begin to eat at de trote." Probably because the throat is the part of the body most exposed. Jack and Terence carried the survivors up to Kingston. Except that they uttered a few expressions of regret at the sad fate of their shipmates, the men seemed very little concerned, or grateful to Heaven for their own preservation; and immediately on landing they went into a grog-shop, where they probably soon forgot all about the matter. Such is the force of habit. Jack and Terence were not enchanted with the silent, half-deserted streets of Kingston, through which, having lost their way, they paraded for half an hour or more; but after eating a pink-coloured shaddock, and half-a-dozen juicy oranges, obtained from a smiling-faced negress market-woman, their spirits rose. "Things begin to wear a more roseate hue, maybe tinged with the juice of the fruit we've swallowed," said Terence, laughing, "and here's Johnny Ferong's store we were looking for, I've no doubt." They entered, and received a hearty welcome from that most loquacious and facetious of Frenchmen, who offered to supply them with every possible article they could require in any quantity, from a needle to an anchor. They wanted something--it was information--how best to get out to Saint David's, not a profitable article to supply them with, but Johnny Ferong afforded it, with apparently infinite pleasure, and further assisted to raise their spirits, and confirm their resolution of becoming customers, by handing them each a glass of cool, sparkling champagne, and immediately replenishing it when empty. "And you want to pay visit to Madame Bradsaw? Charmante lady--den I vill order one voiture for vous, vich vill take vous dere, let me see, in two hours and one half; and vous stay dere, and come back in de cool of de morning, or in de evening, or de next day as vous please," said Mr Ferong, bowing, and smiling, as he spoke, in the mode habitual to him. "It will never do to take people by storm in that fashion," exclaimed Jack. "Unless we can get back to-night we had better put off our visit till to-morrow morning."