be landed here, which request was immediately complied with. The spectacle was horrible. There were several children that must have been torn from the breast, for when landed, it was found necessary to give them in charge to the women, to take care of. So much for Prince's island, that nest for piratical slavers. If Colonel Nicolls had three Government steamers under his control, he would put down the slave traffic on the coast in six months, by destroying their nests in the rivers. At present the Government vessels only cruise about, and pick up a slaver occasionally." CHAPTER VII. A WARM RECEPTION. We bowled along for half-an-hour, keeping a bright look-out for the frigate, but we could see nothing of her. "I say, Sprawl, had we not better heave-to, till daylight? You see we can make nothing out as to her whereabouts; mind we do not run past her in the night." "Indeed, Lanyard, I think we had better--so heave-to at once, will ye?" The word was passed; and after having given little Binnacle his instructions to call him the instant they made out the frigate, or the weather assumed a threatening aspect, Sprawl and I went below to secure a couple of hours' sleep, troubled though they might be, before day broke. We had just commenced on our salt junk, and having each of us filled a glass of grog, I was in the very act of hobbing and nobbing with my illustrious ally, when we heard some one call down the after-hatchway. I instantly recognised the voice of Corporal Lennox. "I say, Dogvane, do rouse out Mr De Walden--I know he is regularly done up, but it is his watch, and unless he is on deck at muster, he will be sure to catch it, and I should be sorry that he did." "Why, master corporal," responded the quartermaster, "you might have put yourself to the trouble of coming down yourself and awakening Mr De Walden, and so you would have been under no obligation to nobody; but I won't grudge the trouble, so I will do it for you." "Hillo," we immediately heard old Dograne sing out, "on deck, there." "What do you want?" replied Corporal Lennox. "Oh, nothing, but Mr De Walden is not here." "Never mind then, old fellow," said Lennox, "he is in the cabin, I suppose." Here little Binnacle struck in--"Why, Lennox, what are you bothering about; did I not desire you to call Mr De Walden?" "You did sir, but he is not below, unless he be in the cabin." "Well, did you ask the captain's steward if he was there or not?" "No, sir." "Ask him now, then; and tell him to say to Mr De Walden that he is wanted." "I'll tell you what,"--(at this moment struck in old Davie),--"I am deucedly done up, so tip me the case-bottle again, and I will make another tumbler of grog, and then turn in till daylight--for even if we make the frigate out, what use is there in"----