Another difficulty arose, however, when the first was overcome.  Unus could speak no English, and how was he to communicate with Juno, even after he had entered her boat?  The girl, moreover, was both resolute and strong, as her present expedition sufficiently proved, and would be very apt to knock a nearly naked savage on the head, when she saw him attempting to enter her boat.  From this last opinion, however, Bridget dissented.  Juno was kind-hearted, and would be more disposed, she thought, to pick up a man found in the water at sea, than to injure him.  But Juno could read writing.  Bridget herself had taught her slaves to read and write, and Juno in particular was a sort of ‘expert,’ in her way.  She wrote and read half the nigger-letters of Bristol, previously to quitting America.  She would now write a short note, which would put the girl on her guard, and give her confidence in Unus.  Juno knew the whole history of Peters and Peggy, having taken great interest in the fate of the latter.  To own the truth, the girl had manifested a very creditable degree of principle on the subject, for Jones had tried to persuade his friend to take Juno, a nice, tidy, light-coloured black, to wife, and to forget Peggy, when Juno repelled the attempt with spirit and principle.  It is due to Peters, moreover, to add that he was always true to his island bride.  But the occurrence had made Juno acquainted with the whole history of Peggy; and Bridget, in the few lines she now wrote to the girl, took care to tell her that the Indian was the brother of Peggy.  In that capacity, he would be almost certain of a friendly reception.  The rest of the note was merely an outline of their situation, with, an injunction to let Unis direct the movements.

No sooner was this important note written, than Unus hastened down to the cove.  He was accompanied by Mark, Peters and Peggy; the former to give his instructions, and the two latter to act as interpreters.  Nor was the sister without feeling for the brother on the occasion.  She certainly did not regard his enterprise as it would have been looked upon by a civilized woman, but she manifested a proper degree of interest in its success.  Her parting words to her brother, were advice to keep well to windward, in order that, as he got near the boat, he might float down upon it with the greater facility, aided by the waves.

The young Indian was soon ready.  The note was secured in his hair, and moving gently in the water, he swam out of the cove with the ease, if not with the rapidity of a fish.  Peggy clapped her hands and laughed, and otherwise manifested a sort of childish delight, as if pleased that one of her race should so early make himself useful to the countrymen of her husband.  She and Peters repaired to the battery, which was the proper station of the man, while Mark went nimbly up the Stairs, on his way to the Peak.  And here we might put in a passing word on the subject of these ascents and descents.  The governor had