Just so surely I never saw him again,
when once we'd drifted apart that night among the Windwards.
A New Orleans paper of the week after held an item more or less like
this:
"An incoming steamer from Trinidad, reports the overhauling of a
smuggler, _The Hawk_, by the Spanish cruiser, _Reina Isabella_.
The smugglers scuttled the ship and endeavoured to escape, but
were captured, and are thought to have been all hanged. This summary
action would seem entirely unjustifiable, as smuggling is not a
capital offence under any civilised law. The disturbed state of
affairs under our Spanish-American neighbours may account for it.
_The Hawk_ is stated to be an old offender. No American vessel
of this name and description being known however, it is not likely
that there will be any investigation."
The New York _Shipping News_ of three months later had this:
"The bark, _Hebe Maitland_, Mdse., Clyde, Cap., which left this
port the 9th of April, has not yet been heard from."
So the _Reina Isabella_ thought she got all the crew of the
_Hebe Maitland_, likely she thinks so yet, for I don't know of
anybody that ever dropped around to correct her; but being as we
rowed all night to westward and were picked up next morning by an
English steamer bound for Colon on the Isthmus of Panama, and were
properly landed in course of time, I argue there were some of them
she didn't get.
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