It may be up one of these small rivers marked on the chart--there are a score of them between Cape la Move and here.

She does not seem to have been seen as far east as this.
Of course, she has not put in here, because there are some eight or ten foreign ships here now.

Every one of these twenty rivers has plenty of water for vessels of her draught for some miles up.

I fancy our best chance will be to meet her cruising." "The worst of that would be, Major," George Lechmere said, "that she would know us, and if she sails as well as she used to do, we should not catch her before night came on--if she had seven or eight miles' start--especially if we both had the wind aft." "That is just what I am afraid of.

I have no doubt that we could beat her easily working to windward in her present rig, but I am by no means certain that she could not run away from us if we were both free; and if she once recognised us there is no saying where she might go to after she had shaken us off.