He may have gone into any of them, but he would be most likely to choose a small place.

However, at one or other of them we are likely to get news; and the first thing for us to do is to get a good black pilot, who can talk some English as well as Spanish." "It is likely we shall have to take three or four of them before we have done.

A man here might know the Virgin Islands, and perhaps most of the Leeward Islands, but he might not know anything east, west, or north of San Domingo.

We should certainly want another pilot for the Bahamas, and a third for Cuba and the islands round it, which can be counted almost by the hundred.

Then again, none of these would know the islands fringing almost the whole of the coast from Honduras to Trinidad.