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Our reason for setting her on fire alongside was to save time, as we wanted to go in chase of another vessel, seen from the mast-head, and lowering a boat down to destroy this vessel would have detained us. Before the end of the cruise, we chased a schooner, which ran on shore and bilged; we boarded her, brought away her crew and part of her cargo, which was very valuable.
"It was the American merchant service I entered," continued Buffett, "an' my first voyage was to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. I was wrecked there, and most o' the crew perished; but I swam ashore and was saved, through God's mercy. Mark that, child'n.
Because there happens to be a pretty barmaid there? All our crew go, and twenty other men besides." "Yes; but do any of them go in the sort of way you do? Does she look at any one of them as she does at you?" "You seem to know a great deal about it," said Tom. "How should I know?" "That's not fair or true, or like you, Brown," said Hardy.
We must use them carefully, for we may expect to have many breakages." "What next, captain?" "Our object will, of course, be to cut through into the main hold, which separates us from the crew. There we shall probably find plenty of weapons. But to use our saws, we must first find a hole in the bulkhead.
I am still so weak that I could not walk a step. A little more and I should have been asphyxiated in that narrow compartment of the Sword at the bottom of the lagoon. Am I in condition to reply to the questions that Engineer Serko is dying to put to me? Yes but I shall maintain the utmost reserve. In the first place I wonder what has become of Lieutenant Davon and the crew of the Sword.
While it was easy for the passengers of the "Merry Maid" to behold an immense battleship it was another matter for the crew on the man-of-war to discover the small pleasure craft adrift on the waters. Jimmy Lawton fired his rifle. The signal of distress rang sharp and true. The clear air carried the sound magnificently. At first there was no response from the battleship.
"Well, I'll come with you, if you like," he said, slowly. "And suppose they go away and leave you, behind?" objected Mrs. Tipping. "Oh, well, you'd better stay then," said the mate, wearily, "unless we take a couple of the hands with us. How would that suit you? They can't sail with half a crew." Mrs.
We were receiving rifle fire from four directions and bayonet thrusts from the Germans on the parapet. Mowed down like sheep. And as they came on they trampled our dead and bayoneted our wounded. The machine-gun crew had gone under to a man, doing their best to the last.
How intently they gazed and listened both from lifeboat and steamer, but no cry was to be heard, no signal of distress, nothing but the roaring of the waves and shrieking of the blast, and yet they were not far from the perishing! The crew of the Demerara were clinging to their quivering mast close by, but what could their weak voices avail in such a storm?
The steamer seemed to be very short handed, and doubtless part of the work on board was done by the soldiers, for the tug seemed to be in the employ of the fort. There was no crew, so far as Christy could judge, except the captain and engineer; and both of these seemed to be invalids, for the latter was so lame he could hardly go.
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