There is signs av a cyclone if Oi'm not mishtaken;" an invitation which the pilot gladly accepted.

His outlandish attire and quaint English greatly amused Paul, who after supper, sat beside him on the deck and plied him with questions about Jamaica.

The pilot told him many interesting tales, among them one of a famous shark known as "Port Royal Tom" who was supposed to inhabit the waters of Kingston's beautiful bay.

"Tom, sah, was a pow'ful shahk, 'bout thirty feet long; but nobody know how ole he was.

In de ol'en times big fleets ob English men-ob-war use to anchoh off Port Royal, an' dat shahk got fat on de refuse dat was frown ovahboahd.