 Two weeks later, the surviving men prepare to leave the island as Attwater's own ship approaches.Davis is now repentant and fervently religious to an almost crazed degree, and he urges the atheist Herrick to join him in his faith.The lengthy voyage of the stolen ship has been described as "a microcosm of imperialist society, directed by greedy but incompetent whites, the labour supplied by long-suffering natives who fulfil their duties without orders and are true to the missionary faith which the Europeans make no pretence of respecting".