22/24 The _Fanny_ had departed to an appointed rendezvous on the Baltic coast of Denmark. Strips of canvas, 6 feet long, were cut and painted with white letters on a black ground, and affixed to bows and stern, so that the men waiting at Copeland might hail the arrival of the _Mountjoy II_. The men on board, as soon as they could make out the name of the approaching vessel, understood at once, and raised a ringing cheer. Two of them were seen gesticulating and hailing the _Mountjoy_. |