"I agree with you that she is undoubtedly a foreigner," answered I; "but I don't think she is Dutch--there is too much gilding and gingerbread-work about her quarters for that.  There,"--as the sun broke through the clouds and showed his upper rim above the horizon, flashing a long, level beam along the surface of the water, striking the stranger and causing the stern of her to blaze into a sudden flame of glittering radiance--"do you see that, Henderson?  Her quarter is a solid mass of painted and gilded carving.  The Dutchman is too economical, too fond of the dollars to lavish so much gold-leaf as that on the adornment of his ship; he prefers to put the money into extra bolts and fastenings.  No; that fellow is a Spaniard, or I'm greatly mistaken!"