That very day the colonel wrote to Paris, to countermand his order for the suite of apartments in which he was to have made some stay, and bargained with the skipper of a Corsican schooner, just about to set sail for Ajaccio, for two poor cabins, but the best that could be had.
Egun hartantxe, koronelak Parisera idatzi zuen ostatu hartu behar zueneko hotelean erreserba bertan behera uzteko, eta belak zabalduta Ajacciora abiatzekoa zen goleta korsikar bateko patroiarekin tratua egin zuen. Goletak itxurazko bi ganbarote zituen.