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A shot was instantly fired at her; it struck her bulwarks, and evidently caused some damage. Instead, however, of running under the guns of the fort, she stood away up the bay, evidently not wishing to come to close quarters with the audacious stranger. A few minutes afterwards another vessel appeared, which, receiving one of the Tornado's shot, followed the example of the first.
Here it was supposed that several English as well as Russian riflemen had perished, while engaged with each other, the flames having spread round them before they had time to make their escape. It was already dark when one of the Tornado's boats came to take them off.
The Tornado's best chance of safety was now to stand out to sea, and to battle bravely with the storm while it should last; still, while there was a possibility of rendering assistance to others in distress, Jack was unwilling to go to a distance.
We went a long spell through the woods, keepin' on the edge of the tornado's road; for't had made a clean track about a quarter of a mile wide, and felled the trees flat, great tulips cut off as sharp as pipe-stems, oaks twisted like dandelion-stems, and hickories curled right up in a heap.
Jack had carried on the unequal contest for half an hour or more, when a third steamer was seen gliding out of the river, and as she opened her fire, it was soon discovered that her guns were heavier than those of either of her consorts. The first shot she fired came crashing through the Tornado's side. "I suppose we shall have to run for it now," cried Dicky.
"The landscape thus losing all indications of the tornado's effect, assumed a sylvan aspect which was tranquil in the extreme. "Not far off stood the horse still hitched to the plough, Jonathan said. The horse had a dazed look, but the plough seemed to be in fit enough condition.
The danger to the Tornado was very great; for should the cable of the vessel ahead give way at that critical moment, she might be hurled against her bows, when, in all probability, both vessels would go down together. The Tornado's progress in the teeth of the gale was very slow, and the fear was that the vessel ahead would go down before she could reach her.
Though many others had signals of distress flying, Jack knew well that he could render them no effectual assistance, and therefore once more put the Tornado's head off-shore. He now for the first time had leisure to inquire from Murray how he happened to be on board the vessel which had gone down.
Then came from the far distance the reports of a few dropping shot, showing that the riflemen of both parties were awake. They again ceased, and the same silence as before reigned over the scene. The Tornado's heavy guns were loaded, and elevated to throw their shot into the city, and their crews stood ready to fire at the word of command.
Under the tropics, in the doldrum belt, there is a zone of low barometer connected to the ascending currents which take place along that line. This is a continuous manifestation of the same action which gives a large area of a disklike form in the centre or eye of the hurricane and in the middle portion of the tornado's whirl.
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