 Captain Gell gives him a revolver.Cargunka again confronts a mysterious underwater enemy with a "sodden, white hand" and a "weed-entangled face," manages to fire the pistol at the apparition three times, but then loses consciousness.When he awakens, he is back in the boat; Gell and the ship's carpenter have pulled him out of the wreck, accompanied by "an enormous, naked, sodden-looking human body, that was gripped fiercely to Cargunka, and lashed about with its great legs."