But oh, it was weary work to attempt to turn to windward in a light breeze in the deep, bluff-bowed, squat-sterned, Dutch-built _Haarlem_, after my experience of the smart, lively, swift-sailing British frigate; it was, therefore, with a feeling of the utmost satisfaction that shortly before the end of the second dog-watch I heard the _Europa_ once more booming out her summons to surrender, and saw the mainyard of the _Schelde_ swing slowly aback in response.
