The leading canoe, in the bow of which he stood, was yet a hundred yards behind the fleeing Meriem when she ran the point of her craft beneath the overhanging trees on the shore of safety.

领先的独木舟，他站在船头，在逃跑的梅里姆身后一百码处，当她在安全岸边悬垂的树木下运行她的船点时。