Well, there is nothing to do but to turn her head west.

It is but forty-eight hours' sail to San Domingo, and I fancy that it is likely that he will have stopped there.

You see on the chart that there are numberless bays, and there would be no fear of questions being asked by the blacks.

If we don't find him there we must try Cuba; but San Domingo is by far the most likely place for him to choose for his headquarters, and there are at least four biggish rivers he could sail up, beside a score of smaller ones.
"I should say that we had better try the south and west first.

The coast is a great deal more indented there than it is to the north.
There seem to be any number of creeks and bays.