"I require fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, sufficient for twenty-five persons.

I shall also be glad if he will arrange for boats to take off water.

My barrels and tanks are nearly empty, and I shall want a supply of about a thousand gallons." While the clerk was absent, Frank, with the assistance of the signal book, kept up a somewhat disjointed conversation with the Spaniard.

The clerk was, however, away but a few minutes; and returned with his brother, an intelligent-looking young fellow of seventeen or eighteen.

He did not speak English quite as well as the clerk, but sufficiently well for all purposes.