So he set to work at once to help me in my French, so that I could get along.

The captain was very kind too.

He said that as I had been picked up in that way he should not treat me as a prisoner; but he expected me to make myself useful, and, of course, I did so.

It was the only way of having a comfortable life." "Is this the only place the privateers had on shore here ?" the captain asked, looking round.

"I only see one or two huts." "The storekeepers lived in them, sir.