68 A GALLANT DEFENCE,

two hundred men which he had on board. However, we had not
a man touched, all our men keeping close. He prepared to attack
us again, and we to defend ourselves; but laying us on board the
next time upon our other quarter, he entered sixty men upon our

 

     

“Ww PLIED THEM WITH SMALL-SHOT, }}
HALF-PIKES, AND SUCH LIKE.”

decks, who immediately fell to
cutting and hacking the decks
and rigging. We plied them
with small-shot, half-pikes, powder-chests, and such like, and
cleared our deck of them twice. However, to cut short this
melancholy part of our story, our ship being disabled, and three
of our men killed and eight wounded, we were obliged to yield,

 

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