A dark, tower-like object looms up against the horizon.

It is the smoke of a steamer--sign of advanced civilisation--emblem of active life.

She nears the shore.

Ha! a foreign flag--the flag of another land trails over her taffrail; a foreign flag floats at her peak; foreign faces appear above her bulwarks, and foreign words issue from the lips of her commander.

She is not of the land.