Shortly after Whitney heads below deck to go to bed, Rainsford remains above deck and continues to smoke his pipe as he looks off into the night. Suddenly, Rainsford hears the sound of a gun being fired three times coming from the direction of Ship-Trap island. The noise startles Rainsford, and he moves quickly to the rail of the yacht. Rainsford proceeds to strain his eyes but cannot see through the darkness. He then climbs on top of the rail and accidentally hits his pipe against a rope, knocking it out of his mouth. In an attempt to catch the pipe, Rainsford lunges and ends up falling into the Caribbean Sea. Unfortunately for Rainsford, none of the passengers or sailors on the yacht can hear his cries, and he ends up swimming to the ominous Ship-Trap Island, where danger awaits him.
While Rainsford is smoking on the afterdeck, he hears gunshots in the darkness of the night. The sound of the gunshots surprises him so that he walks over to the yacht rails and peers into the distance, perhaps to see the source of the shots. However, because the night is pitch black, he does not see anything. He then climbs one of the yacht rails in order to gain a better height to look into the distance. Unfortunately, as he does this, a rope knocks his pipe from his mouth and he loses his balance as he tries to catch his pipe in midair. He falls into the Caribbean Sea.
Since the yacht is speeding through the waters, the wash resulting from its movement pushes him away from the vessel. Also, nobody can hear his cries for help as it is late in the night and the yacht is moving at a very fast speed. He remembers the gunshots he had heard and swims in their direction. After swimming for quite a long time, he reaches a rocky shore upon which he falls asleep. What he does not know is that he has just reached the shores of the dreaded Ship Trap Island that his friend Whitney had talked to him about moments before.
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