encamped on shore, digging for the treasure which was never found; while two of us only remained on board to look after the yacht, which, in consequence of the badness of the anchorage, was ever kept under weigh on the open Atlantic. For months, in fair weather and foul, we two were thus afloat. By night we used to heave her to, some miles off the shore, under trysail and small jib, and in the morning we used to hoist the foresail and sail in towards the shore to communicate with our friends by signal (for the perpetual heavy surf made landing dangerous and often impossible). We even sailed her thus short-handed to Bahia and back to obtain provisions—a voyage of fourteen hundred miles. We should have had a good deal more difficulty in doing this had our vessel been cutter-rigged.
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The Alerte's Boat.
