As to the frigate, it seems to me that she would run an equal risk with the schooner, with the additional danger that there may not be water enough for her." "Well, it certainly doesn't seem to be an easy nut to crack," Captain Wilson said.

"As we agreed before you started, we should not be justified in risking both our vessels in assaulting a place which is certainly extremely formidable, and where there may not be water enough for the frigate to float.

Still the question remains, what is to be done?
It is no use anchoring here and trying to starve them out; they may have provisions enough to last them for years, for anything we know.

If the weather were to turn bad we should have to make off at once; it would never do to be caught in a hurricane with such a coast as that on our lee.

I might send you to Port Royal with a letter to the admiral, asking him to send us two or three more ships; but I don't like doing that when it is a mere question of capturing two rascally privateers." "I think the admiral would be glad to send them," the younger captain said; "for these two vessels have done a tremendous lot of damage during the last year.