It was undoubtedly the Phantom, or rather the Dragon, for the negroes had noticed that name on her stern.

She had sailed on the day after the hurricane, and, as they learned from shore villages at other points, had gone west.
"Well, it is a comfort to think that even if we had sailed direct here from Porto Rico we should not have caught her," Frank said to George Lechmere.

"She had left here two days before we got there.

I suppose they have someone on board who has been in the islands before, for certainly the harbours are the best in the group.

No doubt they got some fishermen to bring them into the creek.