Time was now all important to us; for, of course, we could not tell at what moment Garcia, the arch-pirate, and his crew in the _Tiburon_, might put in an appearance upon the scene; and we had a few very important preparations to make before we could consider ourselves ready to deal with him; therefore we had no sooner let go the felucca's anchor than we lowered the only other boat that we had brought with us, and ran warps away to the shore of the islet, securing them to such rocks as were most convenient for our purpose.
