The wind was fair, and all the reefs in the sails were shaken out.

For the next two days the weather was fine and the wind fair, and Margaret and Paul were regaining their strength.

Nothing of an unusual character occurred on board.

Since the jam under the windlass, Paul Guidon appeared more lively and conversed more freely.

About four o'clock in the afternoon of the second day after the storm, while the Indian was sitting at the bow of the sloop, a school of porpoises was seen approaching in as regular order as a company of British soldiers to a charge.