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When the schooner had approached the island, the Englishmen were able / to make out the name "_Dobryna_" painted on the aft-board. A sinuous / irregularity of the coast had formed a kind of cove, which, though / hardly spacious enough for a few fishing-smacks, would afford the yacht / a temporary anchorage, so long as the wind did not blow violently from / either west or south. Into this cove the _Dobryna_ was duly signaled, / and as soon as she was safely moored, she lowered her four-oar, and / Count Timascheff and Captain Servadac made their way at once to land.
Colonel Heneage Finch Murphy and Major Sir John Temple Oliphant stood, / grave and prim, formally awaiting the arrival of their visitors. Captain / Servadac, with the uncontrolled vivacity natural to a Frenchman, was the / first to speak.