As likely as not, she may have been captured on her way down.

Her port is Bordeaux and, if you wanted to find her, you had much better have gone straight there than come to this place." "I do want to find her," Leigh said.

"Is there any chance of finding a ship going down south ?" "Well, you might find one," the man said; "but you would have to take your chance of getting there.

Many of the ships are laid up, for the risk of capture is great.

It is small craft that, for the most part, make the venture.