Captain Vavassour--who seemed of late to have contracted a marked dislike for anything resembling a lee-shore--therefore decided to work well off the land, until the frigate had gained the track of homeward-bound ships; and there to lie in wait for anything that Dame Fortune might be disposed to send us; in pursuance of which resolution we made sail, upon a taut bowline, as soon as the _Gironde_ had parted company, cracking on, and working out an offing of about a hundred miles by daylight the next morning.
