On the next day, I resumed and finished it for this quarter.

I had now examined the different persons in more than a hundred vessels in this harbour, but I had not discovered the person I had gone to seek.
Matters now began to look rather disheartening, I mean, as far as my grand object was concerned.

There was but one other port left, and this was between two and three hundred miles distant.

I determined however to go to Plymouth.

I had already been more successful in this tour, with respect to obtaining general evidence, than in any other of the same length; and the probability was, that, as I should continue to move among the same kind of people, my success would be in a similar proportion according to the number visited.