These breezes were usually present to cool the nights, and doubtless the inhabitants slept the sounder for the one which had just begun to fan the cheeks of the officers and seamen of the expedition.
"There is a battery there, Mr.Passford," said the pilot in a very low tone.

"I can make it out now, and it is just where I supposed it would be." "I can see something that seems like an earthwork at the right of the buildings," added Christy.

"Can you make out anything that looks like a sentinel ?" "I can see nothing that denotes the presence of a man.

If there were a sentinel there, he would be on the top of the earthwork, or on the highest ground about it, so that he could see out into the bay, for there can be no danger from the land side of the place," added Amblen.
"I can hardly imagine such a thing as a battery without a sentinel to give warning if anybody should try to carry it off.

There must be a sentry somewhere in the vicinity." "I can't say there isn't, though I can't make out a man, or anything that looks like one," replied the pilot.
"Very likely we shall soon wake him up, Mr.Amblen; and in that case it will be necessary for us to find a safer place than in front of the guns of the battery, for I do not feel at liberty to expose the men to the fire of the works, whatever they are." "All you have to do is to pull around to the other side of the point into the bay, where the vessels are.