Accordingly, on a certain day, the _Eros_ and the _Dolphin_ sailed in company from Sierra Leone, and, having made a good offing, caught the trade-wind, blowing fresh, to which we in the _Dolphin_ showed every rag of canvas we could set, while the _Eros_ kept us company by furling her royals and letting run the topgallant halliards from time to time when she manifested a disposition to creep away from us.
