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The
commander
selected
twenty
men
and
two
officers
,
Lieutenant
D'Arnot
and
Lieutenant
Charpentier
.
A
boat
was
dispatched
to
the
cruiser
for
provisions
,
ammunition
,
and
carbines
;
the
men
were
already
armed
with
revolvers
.
Then
,
to
Clayton
's
inquiries
as
to
how
they
had
happened
to
anchor
off
shore
and
fire
a
signal
gun
,
the
commander
,
Captain
Dufranne
,
explained
that
a
month
before
they
had
sighted
the
Arrow
bearing
southwest
under
considerable
canvas
,
and
that
when
they
had
signaled
her
to
come
about
she
had
but
crowded
on
more
sail
.
They
had
kept
her
hull-up
until
sunset
,
firing
several
shots
after
her
,
but
the
next
morning
she
was
nowhere
to
be
seen
.
They
had
then
continued
to
cruise
up
and
down
the
coast
for
several
weeks
,
and
had
about
forgotten
the
incident
of
the
recent
chase
,
when
,
early
one
morning
a
few
days
before
the
lookout
had
described
a
vessel
laboring
in
the
trough
of
a
heavy
sea
and
evidently
entirely
out
of
control
.
As
they
steamed
nearer
to
the
derelict
they
were
surprised
to
note
that
it
was
the
same
vessel
that
had
run
from
them
a
few
weeks
earlier
.
Her
forestaysail
and
mizzen
spanker
were
set
as
though
an
effort
had
been
made
to
hold
her
head
up
into
the
wind
,
but
the
sheets
had
parted
,
and
the
sails
were
tearing
to
ribbons
in
the
half
gale
of
wind
.
In
the
high
sea
that
was
running
it
was
a
difficult
and
dangerous
task
to
attempt
to
put
a
prize
crew
aboard
her
;
and
as
no
signs
of
life
had
been
seen
above
deck
,
it
was
decided
to
stand
by
until
the
wind
and
sea
abated
;
but
just
then
a
figure
was
seen
clinging
to
the
rail
and
feebly
waving
a
mute
signal
of
despair
toward
them
.
Immediately
a
boat
's
crew
was
ordered
out
and
an
attempt
was
successfully
made
to
board
the
Arrow
.
The
sight
that
met
the
Frenchmen
's
eyes
as
they
clambered
over
the
ship
's
side
was
appalling
.
A
dozen
dead
and
dying
men
rolled
hither
and
thither
upon
the
pitching
deck
,
the
living
intermingled
with
the
dead
.
Two
of
the
corpses
appeared
to
have
been
partially
devoured
as
though
by
wolves
.
The
prize
crew
soon
had
the
vessel
under
proper
sail
once
more
and
the
living
members
of
the
ill-starred
company
carried
below
to
their
hammocks
.
