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The Old Merchant Marine

CHAPTER VII
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As this vessel promptly gave chase, Captain Ordronaux guessed-and as events proved correctly--that she must be a British frigate.

She turned out to be the Endymion.

The privateer had in tow a prize which she was anxious to get into port, but she was forced to cast off the hawser late in the afternoon and make every effort to escape.
The breeze died with the sun and the vessels were close inshore.
Becalmed, the privateer and the frigate anchored a quarter of a mile apart.

Captain Ordronaux might have put his crew on the beach in boats and abandoned his ship.

This was the reasonable course, for, as he had sent in several prize crews, he was short-handed and could muster no more than thirty-seven men and boys.


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