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all over like a painter's pallette with corsairs of all 

 colours, — black from St. Domingo, brown from 

 Carthagena, white from North America, and pea- 

 green from the Cape de Verd Islands. On the 

 afternoon of the 4th, one of them was at no very 

 great distance from us ; she hoisted English colours 

 on seeing ours ; but there was little doubt, from her 

 peculiar construction and general appearance, that 

 she was a privateer from Carthagena. She set 

 her head towards us, and seemed to be doing her 

 best to come to a nearer acquaintance ; but the 

 same calm which hindered us from bravely running 

 away from her, hindered her also from reaching 

 us, although at nightfall she seemed to have 

 gained upon us. In the night we had a violent 

 thunder-storm, and the next morning she was not 

 to be seen. Still we continued to creep and to 

 crawl, grumbling and growling, till on Sunday, the 

 11th, the long-looked-for wind came at last. The 

 trade wind began to blow with all its might and 

 main right in the vessel's poop, and sent us for- 

 ward at the rate of 200 miles a day. We passed 

 between Deseada and Antigua in the night of the 

 15th ; and, on the 16th, the rising sun showed us 

 the island mountain of Montserrat ; the sight of 

 which was scarcely less agreeable to our eyes from 

 its romantic beauty, than welcome from its giving 

 us the assurance that our long-winded voyage is at 

 length drawing towards its termination. 



