Then he reflected a moment, in order to plan another mode of proceeding, and pursued the inquiry.
"My neighbor Vito Viti is right," he said, "and we will stick to the lugger.

Tommaso Tonti is a mariner of experience, and the oldest pilot of Elba.

He tells us that the lugger is a craft much in use among the French, and not at all among the English, so far as he has ever witnessed." "In that Tommaso Tonti is no seaman.

Many luggers are to be found among the English; though more, certainly, among the French.

But I have already given the Signor Viti to understand that there is such an island as Guernsey, which was once French, but which is now English, and that accounts for the appearances he has observed.