326 A ‘GLORIOUS VICTORY !”

 

“TIERY CAME UP TO THE SUIP ABOUT MIDPNrantr,”

When this was done, and all safe upon deck, the captain
ordered the mate with three men to break into the round-house
where the new rebel captain lay, and having taken the alarm, was
gotten up, and with two men and a boy had gotten firearms in
their hands ; and when the mate with a crow split open the door,
the new captain and his men fired boldly among them, and wounded
the mate with a musket ball, which broke his arm, and wounded
two more of the men, but killed nobody.

The mate, calling for help, rushed however into the round-house,
wounded as he was, and with his pistol shot the new captain through
the head, the bullet entering at his mouth and came out again
behind one of his ears, so that he never spoke a word; upon which
the rest yielded, and the ship was taken effectually, without any
more lives lost.

As soon as the ship was thus secured, the captain ordered seven