He further learned that it was the intention of his captors to proceed directly to Porto Cabello with their prize.
A prize-master and eight men, armed to the teeth, were put on board.
Mr.Campbell was ordered into the felucca without an opportunity of relieving himself of his extra clothing.

The rays of the sun in that sheltered harbor seemed endued with a tenfold degree of calorie; and the poor fellow, as he stepped over the side, bowed down by the weight of his garments and sweltering with heat, was a legitimate object of pity, although a martyr to his selfish propensities.
We left the harbor on our way to Porto Cabello; but our progress was slow, being interrupted by calms.

The prize crew of the Young Pilot were attentive to their duties and faithful and vigilant during the night.
They were divided into two watches, and four of them, armed with pistols and cutlasses, paced the deck at all hours.

Nevertheless, on the third day after leaving port, the felucca being out of sight in the north-east chasing a suspicious-looking vessel, Captain Moncrieff, having raised and fortified his courage by an extra portion of cognac, called me into the cabin and broached the subject of retaking the schooner! "Hawser," said he, "I cannot reconcile myself to the loss of my vessel; the idea of being tricked out of her by a set of garlic-eating ragamuffins puts me out of all patience.

I have as good a pair of pistols as were ever manufactured, which I concealed when the schooner was searched.