She had sailed west.
The next night, after looking in at Bainette, some twenty miles beyond Jaquemel, Frank rejoined the Osprey.
The gig was hoisted up, and they sailed round the point of Gravois, the coast intervening being so rocky and dangerous that, although there was a passage through the shoals to the town of St.Louis, Frank felt certain that the schooner would not be in there.

The coast from here to Cape Dame Marie was high and precipitous, with no indentations where a ship could lie concealed, and the voyage was continued in the yacht as far as this cape.

They were now at the entrance of the great bay of Hayti.
"I take it as pretty certain," Frank said, as he, George Lechmere, the skipper, and Dominique bent over the chart; "that the schooner is somewhere in this bay.

She has certainly not made her headquarters anywhere along the south coast.

In the first place, she has seldom been seen, and in the second we have examined it thoroughly.