A quarter of an hour after the firing ceased, Captain Forrest himself, with the mate, rowed into the pool in one of the cutters, and landed at the end of the path close to the battery.
"I congratulate you on your success, Mr.Ferguson," he said, shaking hands with the first lieutenant; "it has been a very hot affair, and by Mr.Morrison's report it was just as well that I decided to change my plan and come up to your aid, though it has resulted in two of the prahus getting away." "Then you sank two of them, sir ?" "No, indeed, we only sank one; the third went down just after we saw her come out from the pool.

Certainly we had not hit her, so that the honor of accounting for three out of six of the craft falls to you and your party.

Well, Doctor, what is your report?
I am afraid it is a bad one." "Serious, indeed," he went on, after he had received the figures.

"Still it is much less than might have been expected from attacking such a host of pirates.

I am glad to hear that none of the officers are dangerously wounded." "Parkhurst had his forearm laid open with a cut from a kris, and Balderson had one of their spears through his ear.