"You," I continued, "had better get back aboard the brig and set your crew to work to repair your damages aloft as quickly as possible--all other damage must remain until we arrive at Sierra Leone.  I will do the same as soon as I have seen the prisoners properly secured.  Our own damages are but slight, and as soon as I have put matters in train aboard the schooner I will send Simpson and a party aboard here to see to things, while I go aboard you to hear what Hamilton has to say.  But we shall have to use the brigantine's boats, I expect, to get back to our own craft.  I have not left enough hands with Keene to enable him to send a boat."