THE CHATEAUGAY IN THE DISTANCE The steamer which Christy had discovered was a long distance from the Snapper.

She had just come about, and this movement had enabled the prisoner to see that she had three masts; but that was really all there was to lead him to suppose she was the Chateaugay.

She was too far off for him to make her out; and if he had not known that she was cruising to the eastward of the Bahamas, it would not have occurred to him that she was the steamer in which he had been a passenger two days before.
Captain Flanger discovered the sail a few minutes later, and fixed his attention upon it.

In the business in which he was engaged it was necessary to practise the most unceasing vigilance.

But, at this distance from any Confederate port, the commander of the steamer did not appear to be greatly disturbed at the sight of a distant sail, believing that his danger was nearer the shores of the Southern States.