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At the very first charge one hundred English horsemen drove the Spanish and Albanian cavalry back upon the musketeers and pikemen. Wheeling with rapidity, they retired before a volley of musket-shot, by which many horses and a few riders were killed; and then formed again to renew the attack.
When our men came within two musket-shot of them, the Spaniard governor ordered two muskets to be fired without ball, to alarm them; this he did, that by their countenance he might know what to expect, viz. whether they were still in heart to fight, or were so heartily beaten, as to be dispirited and discouraged, and so he might manage accordingly.
Four of the ships ran foul of each other, and Winter, driving into their centre, found himself within musket-shot of many of their most formidable' ships.
You will tell him, however, that the person his good nature has laid under obligations to him is one Le Fevre, a lieutenant in Angus' 'but he knows me not, said he a second time, musing. 'Possibly he may know my story, added he. 'Pray tell the Captain I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with musket-shot as she lay in my arms in my tent'"
In fact, the daylight which had just been admitted to the last compartments had exposed to the soldiers the bark being rolled towards the sea, the two rebels within musket-shot; and one of their discharges would riddle the boat if it did not kill the navigators.
In his "True Relation," Smith agrees with this statement of the death of Kendall, and says that he was tried by a jury. Smiith unexpectedly returning had the plot discovered to him, much trouble he had to prevent it, till with store of sakre and musket-shot he forced them to stay or sink in the river, which action cost the life of Captain Kendall."
He told me he was both sick and sorry to be on such a wear-and-tear, monotonous, do-nothing station, that he had been out two months without effecting anything, that he had frequently had the enemy’s privateers under his guns, but that the run was so short, they were always sure of escaping. “One morning,” said he, “about five months ago, I had got within musket-shot of one of those vagabonds, and had been sure of him, when a shell fired from Cape Grisnez fell directly down the main hatchway, bedded in one of the water-casks, and shortly after exploded, without, fortunately, doing more mischief than destroying a few more casks and splintering the beams and deck without wounding a man.
This woman, shaking a pair of golden scissors which hung by her side, cried: "Ah! my brothers, at last we have the Valois!" "Ma foi, sister, I believe so." "Not yet," murmured the cardinal. "How so?" "Shall we have enough bourgeois guards to make head against Crillon and his guards?" "We have better than bourgeois guards; and, believe me, there will not be a musket-shot exchanged."
"The enemy approached 'till within musket-shot of us. The two ships were so near to each other that we could distinguish the officers from the men; and I particularly noticed the captain on the gangway, a noble-looking man, having a large gold-laced cocked hat on his head, and a speaking-trumpet in his hand.
From thence you go to a city named Cananore, which is within a musket-shot of the capital of the king of Cananore who is a Gentile . He and his people are wicked and malicious, delighting in going to war with the Portuguese; yet when at peace they find their interest in trading with them.
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