But outside of a few articles of clothing and some casks, nothing came ashore.

In the evening they gave it up in despair and returned to the house that had sheltered them the previous night.

The next morning after another visit to the beach a conveyance was obtained for Tampico, where they arrived the same evening.
For some days they were at a loss what to do until a vessel appeared in harbor bound for New Orleans.

On this the Captain, Betsy and the two seaman procured passage and they vainly urged Paul to do the same; but he had a lingering hope that he might yet recover his apparatus with the aid of the primitive dredgers of the Mexican fishermen, so he refused to leave.

He saw them on board the ship and took an affectionate farewell of his old friends.