The English expected every moment to hear the explosion of the lugger's magazine; but, as it did not happen, they came to the conclusion it had been drowned.

As for Griffin, he pulled in-shore, both to avoid the fire of le Feu-Follet, in passing her broadside, and in the hope of intercepting Raoul while endeavoring to escape in a boat.

He even went to a landing in the river quite a league from the anchorage, and waited there until long past midnight, when, finding the night beginning to cloud over and the obscurity to increase, he returned to the frigate, giving the smouldering wreck a wide berth for fear of accidents.
Such, then, was the state of things when Captain Cuffe appeared on deck just as the day began to dawn on the following morning.

He had given orders to be called at that hour, and was now all impatience to get a view of the sea, more particularly in-shore.

At length the curtain began slowly to rise, and his view extended further and further toward the river, until all was visible, even to the very land.