We kept a sharp lookout that night, thinking that she might be trying to smuggle some contraband ashore; but everything was quiet, and next morning she was gone.
The man who was on the watch said he thought that he made her out with his night glass going east at about eleven o'clock; but it was a dark night, and it might have been a schooner yacht or a brig." "You don't happen to know whether she stopped at Ryde the first time she passed ?" "Yes; having been all talking about her, we watched to see if she was going to anchor there or keep on to the east.

She lowered a boat as she passed, and two men landed.

They threw her up into the wind and waited until the boat came off again.

The men did not come back in her.

They hoisted the boat up again and went east.