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With this the French officers, being apparently content, were about to depart, and it is not impossible that the soft answer might have obtained the galeasse and the ordnance, notwithstanding the arrangement which Philip II. had made with his excellent friend Henry III. for aid and comfort to Spanish vessels in French ports.
He was chained, like the rest, stark naked, save for a loincloth, in the place nearest the gangway on the first starboard bench abaft the narrow waist-deck, and ere the galeasse had made the short distance between the mole and the island at the end of it, the boatswain's whip had coiled itself about his white shoulders to urge him to better exertion than he was putting forth.
In any case, when you practically had to push the muzzle of your gun against your enemy's body in order to hit him, it was not a weapon upon which much reliance was to be placed. There were, in addition to the galley, the nef and the galeasse; the former of these was a sailing vessel pure and simple like those remarkable caravels in which Columbus discovered America.
The quays of Calais and the line of the French shore were lined with thousands of eager spectators, as the two boats-rowing steadily toward a galeasse, which carried forty brass pieces of artillery, and was manned with three hundred soldiers and four hundred and fifty slaves seemed rushing upon their own destruction.
Both Fleets off Calais A Night of Anxiety Project of Howard and Winter Impatience of the Spaniards Fire-Ships sent against the Armada A great Galeasse disabled Attacked and captured by English Boats General Engagement of both Fleets Loss of several Spanish Ships Armada flies, followed by the English English insufficiently provided Are obliged to relinquish the Chase A great Storm disperses the Armada Great Energy of Parma Made fruitless by Philip's Dulness England readier at Sea than on Shore The Lieutenant General's Complaints His Quarrels with Norris and Williams Harsh Statements as to the English Troops Want of Organization in England Royal Parsimony and Delay Quarrels of English Admirals England's narrow Escape from great Peril Various Rumours as to the Armada's Fate Philip for a long Time in Doubt He believes himself victorious Is tranquil when undeceived.
Moreover the numbers were, seven hundred and fifty to one hundred. But, the Spaniards, still quite disconcerted by the events of the preceding night, seemed under a spell. Otherwise it would have been an easy matter for the great galeasse to annihilate such puny antagonists in a very short space of time.
The panic was instantaneous, for, meantime, several other English boats some with eight, ten; or twelve men on board were seen pulling towards the galeasse; while the dismayed soldiers at once leaped overboard on the land side, and attempted to escape by swimming and wading to the shore. Some of them succeeded, but the greater number were drowned.
Yet his uneasiness was no whit allayed; his difficulties were very far from solved. He had undertaken to carry Rosamund to France or Italy; he had pledged her his word to land her upon one or the other shore, and should he fail, she might even come to conclude that such had never been his real intention. Yet how was he to succeed, now, since Asad was aboard the galeasse?
Thou," he continued with ringing scorn, "thou the inspirer of a hundred glorious fights in which whole fleets have been engaged, to take the seas upon so trivial an errand one galeasse to swoop upon a single galley of Spain! It were unworthy thy great name, beneath the dignity of thy valour!" and by a gesture he contemptuously dismissed the subject.
The quays of Calais and the line of the French shore were lined with thousands of eager spectators, as the two boats-rowing steadily toward a galeasse, which carried forty brass pieces of artillery, and was manned with three hundred soldiers and four hundred and fifty slaves seemed rushing upon their own destruction.
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