A village could be seen on the northern shore, some three miles distant; and to this Pedro, with one of the sailors, was at once despatched.

Both parties rejoined Frank soon after midday.

The schooner had been noticed passing the island several times, but much more often on the southern side than on the northern.

The negroes on that side were all agreed that she generally kept on the southern side of the passage, and that more than once she had been seen coming from the south shore, and passing the western point of the island on her way north.
"That looks as if she came from Petit Gouve, or the bay of Mitaquane, or that under the Bec de Marsouin," Frank said.
"Dat is it, sar," Dominique agreed.

"If she want to go north side of bay from Port au Prince, she would have gone either side of island.