CHAPTER VI.

A calm comes on, and we remain during tho night suffering
from hunger and thirst.—Paul tells me his history, and I
find that he is Cheebo, of whom IJ am in search.—His joy at
hearing of his mother makes him regardless of the suffer-
ing we are enduring.—The schooner picks us up.—Paul
suspects her character.—Before long we discover that she
is a slaver, and she runs up a river to receive her cargo on
board.

CARCELY had we caught sight of the
stranger than the wind entirely fell and

 
 

she lay totally becalmed. The smooth
sea enabled us to free the boat completely, and
now we had nothing to do but to sit down and
watch the burning brigantine.

First one of the tall masts, completely encircled
by the flames, fell hissing into the water. The
other, after standing awhile in solitary grandeur,
formed a fiery pinnacle to the flaming hull below.

At length it followed its companion, and then the
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