"Now that we have once shaken them off, let us turn and meet them again." As the vessel's head was brought up into the wind the Danes ceased rowing.

The fate which had befallen their two galleys at the commencement of the fight was still before them.

They had lost great numbers of men in the attempt to board from the Saxon pikes and arrows, and their desire to renew the fight vanished when they saw that the Saxons were equally ready.

Therefore, as the Dragon approached them, they sheered off on either side of her and rowed for the mouth of the Medway.
The Saxons did not pursue.

They had lost eight men killed, and seventeen wounded by the Danish arrows, and were well content to be quit of their opponents, upon whom they had inflicted a severe blow, as each of the galleys sunk had contained fully a hundred and fifty men, and great numbers of the Danes on board the other ships had fallen.
They now left the Thames and sailed to Sandwich.