"I must confess, your Lordship, that the next word puzzles me.
I can make nothing of it. Perhaps the third document may throw
some light on it. The last two words are plain enough.
BRINGT IHNEN means BRING THEM; and, if you recollect, in the
English paper we had SSISTANCE, so by putting the parts together,
it reads thus, I think: 'BRING THEM ASSISTANCE.'"

"Yes, that must be it," replied Lord Glenarvan. "But where
are the poor fellows? We have not the slightest indication
of the place, meantime, nor of where the catastrophe happened."

"Perhaps the French copy will be more explicit," suggested Lady Helena.

"Here it is, then," said Lord Glenarvan, "and that is in a language
we all know."

The words it contained were these:

troi ats tannia
gonie austral
abor
contin pr cruel indi
jete ongit
et 37 degrees 11" LAT

"There are figures!" exclaimed Lady Helena. "Look!"

"Let us go steadily to work," said Lord Glenarvan, "and begin
at the beginning. I think we can make out from the incomplete
words in the first line that a three-mast vessel is in question,