In the evening, Hubert de Vaux and the gentlemen from Broadlawn, engaged for the cruise, walked in. Charlie Hubbard was there too; he had remained in Philadelphia during the whole trial, and had just returned home that morning.
"And so you are positively going to-morrow," said Mr. Wyllys to young de Vaux.
"Positively; at six in the morning."
"Is it part of your plan, to stow yourselves away at night in the
Petrel?"
"The Petrel's cabin is not to be despised, I assure you, sir. It has six as good berths as those of any North-River sloop that ever carried passengers in days of yore. But we shall only sleep on board occasionally, for the fun of the thing."
{"North-River sloop" = the Hudson River was also called the North
River, and before steamboats, passengers travelled between New
York and Albany by what were known as Hudson River or North River
sloops}
"At what places do you intend to put into port?"
"We are going to shoot for a day or two on Long-Island; and we shall let the Yankees have a sight of the Petrel, at New Haven, Sachem's-Head, and Nantucket."
{"Sachem's Head" = Sachem Head harbor is about 10 miles east of
New Haven, Connecticut}
"I have no doubt you will have a pleasant excursion."