Then the Dragon directed her course to the two galleys she had first captured.

These were also rifled of their contents and burned.

The Saxons were delighted at the success which had attended their first adventure.
"We shall have rougher work next time," Egbert said.

"The Danes who escaped will carry news to London, and we shall be having a whole fleet down to attack us in a few days." "If they are in anything like reasonable numbers we will fight them; if not, we can run.

We have seen to-day how much faster we are than the Danish boats; and though I shall be in favour of fighting if we have a fair chance of success, it would be folly to risk the success of our enterprise by contending against overwhelming numbers at the outset, seeing that we shall be able to pick up so many prizes round the coast." "We can beat a score of them," Egbert grumbled.