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So he answered the captain evasively, returning the glass and pleading his ignorance of nautical matters to excuse his indefinite opinion. "It must be the Carrysford, with Hythe's squadron; she is a thirty-two. But why they should act this way, I cannot see.
From one of the prizes it had been learned that the English thirty-two-gun frigate Carrysford, the twenty-gun sloop Perseus, the sixteen-gun sloop Hinchinbrook, with several privateers, had been cruising off the coast together, and the commander of the Randolph was most anxious to get the help of some of the South Carolina State cruisers to go in search of the British ships.
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