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`` We shall be there , or thereabouts , by that time if the wind keeps the same strength and in the same quarter . That would make an uncommonly good run of it , considering that we were lying twenty-four hours becalmed . If it had not been for that , we should have been only four days from the Start to Saint Vincent . '' The mate 's calculations turned out correct , and at seven in the morning they anchored a mile off Cape Saint Vincent . The gig was lowered , and Frank was rowed ashore , taking with him a signal book in which questions were given in several languages , including Spanish . He had purchased it at Cowes before starting . The signal officer was very polite , and fortunately understood a little English .