scanned the horizon.

"So help me God, dis time me tink, Judy--yes, so help me God, me see a
ship!" cried Coco, joyfully.

"Eh!" screamed Judy, faintly, with delight: "den Massa Eddard no die."

"Yes, so help me God--he come dis way!" and Coco, who appeared to have
recovered a portion of his former strength and activity, clambered on
the top of the _caboose_, where he sat, cross-legged, waving his yellow
handkerchief, with the hope of attracting the attention of those on
board; for he knew that it was very possible that an object floating
little more than level with the water's surface might escape notice.

As it fortunately happened, the frigate, for such she was, continued her
course precisely for the wreck, although it had not been perceived by
the look-out men at the mast-heads, whose eyes had been directed to the
line of the horizon. In less than an hour our little party were
threatened with a new danger, that of being run over by the frigate,
which was now within a cable's length of them, driving the seas before
her in one widely extended foam, as she pursued her rapid and impetuous
course. Coco shouted to his utmost, and fortunately attracted the
notice of the men who were on the bowsprit, stowing away the
foretopmast-staysail, which had been hoisted up to dry after the gale.

"Starboard, hard!" was roared out.

"Starboard it is," was the reply from the quarterdeck, and the helm was
shifted without inquiry, as it always is on board of a man-of-war,
although, at the same time, it behoves people to be rather careful how
they pass such an order, without being prepared with a subsequent and
most satisfactory explanation.

The topmast studding-sail flapped and fluttered, the foresail shivered,
and the jib filled as the frigate rounded to, narrowly missing the
wreck, which was now under the bows, rocking so violently in the white
foam of the agitated waters, that it was with difficulty that Coco
could, by clinging to the stump of the mainmast, retain his elevated
position. The frigate shortened sail, hove to, and lowered down a
quarter-boat, and in less than five minutes Coco, Judy, and the infant,
were rescued from their awful situation. Poor Judy, who had borne up
against all for the sake of the child, placed it in the arms of the
officer who relieved them, and then fell back in a state of
insensibility, in which condition she was carried on board. Coco, as he
took his place in the stern-sheets of the bo