The lugger had now been ashore quite four hours, and the sun had been up fully three.

"Inglese!" exclaimed 'Maso, infinitely aided in this conjecture by the sight of the stranger's ensign"Si, Signore; it is an Englishman; I thought so, from the first, but as the lugger is not a common rig for vessels of that nation, I did not like to risk anything by saying it.

The result of the discussion, notwithstanding, was to make the two Italians reluctant converts to the opinion of the Englishman, that the lugger was the dreaded and obnoxious Feu-Follet.

This lugger, on board which you sail, is out of all question English, notwithstanding what you tell us of the nation.

The lugger, however, was some miles the nearest to us, while as to the strangers, if they saw each other across the diameter of the circle at all, it was as much as was possible.

" "Well, sir, as soon as I had satisfied the vice-governor that the lugger was an enemy, and that we were friends, everything went: smoothly enough.

He tells us that the lugger is a craft much in use among the French, and not at all among the English, so far as he has ever witnessed.

A lugger is a lugger.

The lugger is a celebrated French privateer, that we have six cruisers in chase of at this moment, our own ship included.

The lugger, however, was some miles the nearest to us, while as to the strangers, if they saw each other across the diameter of the circle at all, it was as much as was possible.

At the same time, he was forced to allow that he possessed no direct evidence that the lugger he had chased was a Frenchman at all, and least of all le Feu-Follet.