Unus understood sailing a boat perfectly well.  On setting his sail, he stood on in the Dido until he was obliged to bear up on account of the cliffs.  This brought him so close to the rocks as greatly to diminish the chances of being seen.  There both wind and current aided his progress; the first drawing round the end of the island, the coast of which it followed in a sort of eddy, for some time, and the latter setting down towards the cove, which was less than two miles from the north bluff.  In twenty minutes after he had made sail, Unus was entering the secret little harbour, Waally and his fleet being quite out of sight from one as low as the surface of the ocean, still paddling away to the south-west, as hard as they could.

Great was the exultation of the colonists, at this escape of Juno’s.  It even surpassed their happiness at the retreat of their invaders.  If the boat were actually unseen, the governor believed the impression was sufficient to keep the savages aloof for a long time, if not for ever; since they would not fail to ascribe the roar, and the smoke of the volcano, and all the mysteries of the place, to supernatural agencies.  If the sail had been seen, however, it was possible that, on reflection, their courage might revive, and more would be seen of them.  Unus was extolled by everybody, and seemed perfectly happy.  Peggy communicated his thoughts, which were every way in favour of his new friends.  Waally he detested.  He denounced him as a ruthless tyrant, and declared he would prefer death to submission to his exactions.  Juno highly approved of all his sentiments, and was soon known as a sworn friend of Peggy’s.  This hatred of tyranny is innate in men, but it is necessary to distinguish between real oppression and those restraints which are wholesome, if not indispensable to human happiness.  As for the canoes, they were soon out of sight in the south-western hoard, running off, under their sails, before the wind.  Waally, himself, was too strong-minded and resolute, to be as much overcome by the echo, as his companions; but, so profound and general was the awe excited, that he did not think it advisable to persevere in his projects, at a moment so discouraging.  Acquiescing in the wishes of all around him, the expedition drew off from the island, making the best of its way back to the place from which it had last sailed.  All these circumstances became known to the colonists, in the end, as well as the reasoning and the more minute incidents that influenced the future movements; For the time being, however, Woolston and his friends were left to their own conjectures on the Subject; which, however, were not greatly out of the way.  It was an hour after Juno and Unus were safe up on the plain, before the look-outs at the Peak finally lost sight of the fleet, which, when last seen, was steering a course that would carry it between the volcano and Rancocus Island, and might involve it in serious difficulties in the