The stranger saw our approach, and from the eager way in which we carried on sail, those on board must have had some suspicion of the character of the schooner.  She was a fine large ship, and was evidently a fast craft, but still the schooner managed to overhaul her.  As we had hitherto stood on under easy sail, the _Dove_ was able to keep up with us, but now we left her far astern.  Before we parted company, however, the captain signalised her where to meet him.  I forgot to say that for some time we did not know the name of the pirate chief, but at last we heard him called Captain Bruno.  Though this name had a foreign sound, he was, as I have before said, either an Englishman or an American.  The schooner was called the _Hawk_, and she was not ill named.