Brown and his men, huddling round a fire, ate the last of the food. Kassim had brought them that day. Cornelius sat among them, half-asleep. Then one of the crew remembered some tobacco had been left in the boat, and said he would go and fetch it. He didn’t think there was any danger in going to the creek in the dark. He disappeared down the hillside, and a moment later he was heard climbing into the boat and then climbing out again. One of them disappeared down the hill implies that