"Someone sure to have seen her." "Well, you had better come below.

I have got a chart, and you shall mark all the islands where there are any bays that she would be likely to take shelter in, and we can then see the order in which we had better take them." This was a little beyond Dominique's English, but Pedro explained it to him, and at Frank's request went below with them; Frank telling Hawkins to weigh anchor as soon as the tanks were filled and the stores were on board.

He had, before he came off, returned to Senor Cordovo and paid for all the things supplied.
Going through the islands, one by one, Dominique made a cross against all that possessed harbours or inlets, that would each have to be examined.
"Tortola is the least likely of the places for them to go," Frank said, "as it is a British island." "Not many people dar, sar.

Most people in town.

De rest of island rock, all hills broken up, many good harbours." "What is its size, Dominique ?" "Twelve miles long, sar.