ssionaries. Offer to trade with
them, and prove to them that honest commerce will be more profitable to
them than dishonest piracy. I think this plan would answer our purpose
better than burning down their houses and cornfields." Jack was not
quite certain which plan he thought the best.

"Ours is the shortest and most simple, at all events," he observed.

"I think not, because our present work can never end," answered Alick.
"As soon as we disappear, piracy will again appear; whereas if we teach
the people the advantages of commerce, they will not only no longer rob
themselves, but it will be their interest to aid in putting down piracy
everywhere else."

"Well, Alick, I do believe you are right, as you always are," said Jack.
"But, I say, I hope we shall find poor Madame Dubois and Mademoiselle
Cecile before long. What a state of fright the poor old lady will be in
all this time!" While they were talking, their boats being close
alongside each other, Terence was attending to the wounded man in his
boat. The poor man grew weaker and weaker.

"I shall not see another sunrise," he remarked. "Bill won't have a
day's start of me; so, maybe, after all, he and I will steer the same
course alongside each other." He continued talking in the same style to
the last, showing clearly that he had his senses perfectly, but that he
was painfully ignorant of the truths of religion. Adair thought that he
ought to set him right, but did not know how to begin, and, if he had
begun, he felt that he should not know how to go on. The seaman's voice
grew fainter and fainter, the pale light of of dawn began to appear.
Suddenly he lifted himself up, exclaiming with a strong voice, "Yes,
Bill, all right; I'm casting off the turns. Good-bye, shipmates. I'm
after you, Bill." Then he fell back, and was dead. Scarcely was the
body cold before it, too, was lowered into the water, and as the sun
rose Mr Cherry gave the order to weigh and continue the voyage. A
pleasant breeze sprang up off the land, which carried them along at a
good speed. At noon they turned to dine, still continuing under weigh.
A lofty headland was before them. No sooner did they round it, than a
deep and beautiful bay opened on them, with rocks and high but not
precipitous banks. In the very head of it there appeared a large junk
anchored close in with the shore.

"That's her!" exclaimed Jack, and Alick, and Captain Willock in the same
voice. "It's the ve