bore up again for the harbor of Anapa.

We have said that the little clipper numbered some hundred tons, but
though her appearance would indicate this to be the case, yet your
thorough-bred sailor would have marked how stiffly she bore so much
top hamper, and would have judged more correctly by the depth of
water that the schooner evidently drew. It was plain that she was
deep and much heavier than she looked. A few sprightly Greek youths,
in their picturesque costume were dispersed here and there in the
waist and on the forecastle, while two or three persons wearing the
same dress and evidently of that nation, were talking together in a
group upon the weather-side of the quarter-deck.

As the hours drew towards midnight, the schooner at length opened
communication with the land by means of signal lanterns, and
immediately after boats commenced to ply between the clipper and the
shore, and continued to do so for several hours. It was plain enough
to any one who knew the usages and trade of these waters, that the
schooner was preparing to run a cargo of Circassian girls, the trade
having been, as we have already shown, made contraband by the
Russians.

At last the clipper seemed to have received all on board that she
expected in the shape of passengers, but still stood off and on for
some reason until the breaking day began to tinge the mountain tops
beyond Anapa; when a last boat with five persons, one of whom was a
female, came down to the clipper which was thrown in the wind's eye
long enough for those to get on board, or rather for three of them
to do so; and then, as the other two pulled back to the shore, the
schooner gradually came round under the force of her topsail, and