We might not see him come out from there, but we should soon make him out if he were coming down from Port au Prince." It was agreed that this was the best plan to adopt.

It might lead to their sighting the schooner in a day or two, while to row round the bay and search every inlet in it would take them a fortnight.
From Genarve, too, a forty-mile sail in the gig would take them into Port au Prince, which the brigantine might possibly have made its headquarters.

Accordingly, after waiting until nightfall, they got up sail, and anchored at six in the morning in a small bay in the island of Genarve.

Here they would not be likely to attract the notice of any ship passing up to Port au Prince, unless, which was very unlikely, one came along close to the shore.
As soon as the anchor was dropped, both boats rowed to shore.
Frank, George Lechmere, Pedro, and four sailors, with a basket of provisions, started at once for the highest point in the island, some four miles distant.

Dominique went along the shore with two sailors, to make inquiries at any villages they came to.
On reaching the top of the hill, Frank saw that, as he had expected, it commanded an extensive view over the bay on each side of the island, which was but some six miles across.