However, I hope we shall not have to search them.

There is an ample cruising ground and any number of hiding places without having to go so far out of the world as that.
At any rate, at present he is not likely to have gone far, and I think that he will either have sought some secluded shelter among the Virgin Islands, or on the coast of San Domingo." When within a few miles of Porto Rico they lay to for the night, and the next morning coasted westward, and dropped anchor in the port of San Juan de Porto Rico.
A quarter of an hour after dropping anchor the port officials came on board.

The inspection of the ship's papers was a short formality, the white ensign and the general appearance of the craft showing her at once to be an English yacht, and as she had only touched at Madeira on her way from Gibraltar, and all on board were in good health, she was at once given pratique.
"The first thing to do is to get an interpreter," Frank said, as he was rowed to shore, accompanied by George Lechmere.

"The secretary of Lloyd's gave me a list of their agents all over the world.

It is a Spanish firm here, and it is probable that none of them speaks English, but if so I have no doubt that by aid of this signal book I shall be able to make them understand what I want.