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Updated: June 4, 2025
I saw all this as the revenue cutter's boats separated, one making for the chasse-maree, and the other dashing after the flying long-shore squadron; and as I dragged at my oar, I had the pleasure of seeing that we must either be soon overhauled, or else leap out into the shallow water, and run for it, and I said so to my companion. "Oh, hang it, no," he cried; "pull on.
Malo or Morlaix, with naval stores or munitions of war. However, Cap'n Dick had very good luck. Cap'n Dick had the weather-gauge, as well as the legs of the French chasse-marée. She was about a league to leeward when the morning lifted and he first spied her.
The wind being fair for Plymouth, Cap'n Dick sent her into that port her own captain and crew working her, of course, and thirty Frenchmen on board in irons. And at Plymouth she arrived without any mishap. Then came the chasse-marée. Cap'n Dick considered, and then turned to old Jacka. "I'm thinking," said he, "I'll have to put you aboard with a prize crew to work her back to Polperro."
Before the French could have time to attack them, John Marks sprang on board the chasse-maree, and seizing a boat-stretcher, stood prepared to prevent any of the enemy from getting up the side. The astonishment of the Frenchmen gave time to the lieutenant and his three men to climb on board and to prepare their firearms and cutlasses.
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