Next morning after breakfast they resumed their march and two days after entered the gates of Gibraltar.

Here they proceeded to a sailor's boarding house, where they were assured they would have no difficulty in getting a ship.
Next day while hesitating over an offer they had from the captain of a fruiter to run down to the Grecian Islands where he intended to load with dry fruit and return to New York, a little English bark entered the bay.

Her first mate was so ill that they decided to land him and leave him in the hospital.

Paul sought out the captain and after a close examination was engaged in the position vacated by the sick man.
The bark was the George, of North Shields, England.

Paul induced Captain Moore also to ship his companion before the mast.