Roy Rockwood

“ As if the captain guessed Mont's thoughts, he observed to him at the bottom of the staircase on board the ship:
"That Indian belonged to an oppressed race. I also am one of the oppressed, and to my last breath I shall continue to be so. ”

“ The Indian did not see anyone, and if he had he would have been so alarmed at the strange spectacle of curious-looking beings walking at ease at the bottom of the sea that he would quickly have retired. ”

“ Mont thought of the "sea butcher," as the divers of Ceylon call the shark, and trembled a little at the idea.
But he deceived himself, for this time he had nothing to fear from the monster of the ocean.
A living man, an Indian, as black as ink, shot through the water, doubtless an early fisher for pearls.
The bottom of his canoe could be seen up above, a few feet beyond his head. ”