ger.

That same evening my brother and I had strolled out from our camp to
enjoy the freshness of the breeze along the sea shore. A light wind
played over the water, the stars shone forth with wonderful brilliancy.
We were tempted to sit down on the rocks, where we remained talking over
our prospects for some time, when Charley exclaimed--

"Look there, Dick, look there! a vessel, as I'm alive, she's standing
into the bay. She's no stranger to it, or she would not come here
during the dark. We must make a signal and try to attract her
attention, though it is pretty certain that she will send a boat on
shore early in the morning, yet it will be trying to have to wait until
then to know what she is."

There was abundance of drift wood on the beach which we quickly
collected, and Charley having fortunately a tinder-box in his pocket, we
had no difficulty in kindling a blaze. As soon as we got a brand
burning I took it up, and swinging it round my head threw it high into
the air. A second and a third time I did the same, when as I threw up a
fourth brand, the signal was answered by a rocket which rose from the
vessel.

Before many minutes were over we heard the splash of oars, and could
distinguish a boat. We both shouted, our hail was answered by an
English voice. In another five minutes the stem of the boat touched the
beach, and a person sprang on shore.

"Who are you? where do you come from?" exclaimed a voice which I well
knew. It was that of Captain Magor. The next instant we were all
warmly shaking hands.

Harry and Tom hearing our shouts had hurried down to the beach. Our
surprise and satisfaction were mutual. We very quickly told him our
adventures, and he then informed us that he had played the same trick on
the pirates which they had played on Lieutenant Hallton, and that having
recaptured the "Arrow" he had carried her safely back to England, and
that he had now just arrived on the coast, the only misfortune which had
happened to him being the death of a young man who had come out as
supercargo.

"You may therefore still be of the greatest assistance to me," he said,
"and having now learned something of the language, and being
acclimatised, you will be able to transact business with the natives far
better than you could otherwise have done."

We then told him of our black followers, who would, we believed, be of
still greater assistance in procuring the articles we required, and
disposing o