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Colonel Monson, who now succeeded to the command, reformed the troops who were in some disorder, owing to the impetuosity of their charge and led them forward again. Battery after battery was captured. Numbers of Holkar's men tried to cross the morass, but sank in the mud and lost their lives. The rest took refuge under the walls of Deeg, whose guns at once opened fire upon their pursuers.
I remembered the black cruiser with its pennon of smoke. The inlet had been reedy, and the water there quiet, and the soil we dug in punky and wet. I sat in the stern of the dingey now and let Monson row, which he did powerfully. His forearm was like a log of wood, the muscles coming out of it in knots.
The sea was easy, though moving some, and slapping the ship's sides and the hold was full of loud echoes, smelling bad, and very black beyond the space of lantern light, a slimy cold place, and full of sudden noises. I worked till far in the morning, sawing lead pipe into thin sections of maybe an eighth of an inch thick, and thinking about Monson and whether he was deep or not.
The Admiralty, however, did not appear to agree with Sir William Monson, for the following instructions were issued: "You are to take notice, that in case of joining battle you are to leave it to the vice-admiral to assail the enemy's admiral, and to match yours as equally as you can to succour the rest of the fleet, as cause shall require, not wasting your powder nor shooting afar off, nor till you come side by side."
And she gave me a puzzled glance she thought I did not see as if she were wondering whether the enemy was not hiding new and deeper guile under an apparently harmless suggestion. "Then I'll not see you again for several days," said I, most businesslike. "If you want anything, there will be Monson out at the stables where he can't annoy you. Or you can get me on the 'long distance. Good-by.
Essex made next a disposition proper for intercepting the Indian galleons; and Sir William Monson, whose station was the most remote of the fleet, having fallen in with them, made the signals which had been agreed on. * Monson, p. 173. Monson, p. 174.
The day had begun to dawn when Colonel Monson approached the Valdore redoubt. But at the last moment, making a mistake in their way, the head of the column halted. At this moment the enemy perceived them, and discharged a twenty-four pounder, loaded with small shot, into the column.
I was not acquainted with Rajah Nundcomar's intention of bringing in such charges as are mentioned in the letter. "Warren Hastings. J. Clavering. Geo. Monson. P. Francis." Now what the duty of Mr.
He kept nudging me now and then, and saying, "It's that way;" and me answering, "There's reason in it, when it's put that way." About nine o'clock I went below. By ten Monson and all the negroes were asleep, except two with the other white man on watch. I waited an hour, and then took a saw and a lantern, and crept from the cabin down the ladder to the hold.
In the afternoon of the 10th September, we came again to Fayal road; upon which the earl sent Captain Lister, with a person from Graciosa whom Captain Monson had taken some time before, and some others, carrying a message to Fayal.
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