...he planks he handled—a set of signals, by which the Sumter was to be circumvented. The anchorage of St. Pierre is a wide, open bay, with an exit around half the points of the compass. The Iroquois , as she kept watch and ward over the Sumter, generally lay off the centre of this sheet of water. As the Sumter might run out either north of her, or south of her, it was highly important that the ...