It was six feet high on the side facing the water, with two embrasures for the guns, four feet high on the sides covered by the chevaux de frise.

The front face was twenty-five feet in length, the sides forty.

Morning was breaking as the work was finished, and bread and cold meat were served out, with a full ration of grog.

By the time these were consumed it was broad daylight; for there is little twilight so near the equator.
"Now for it, Dick," Harry Parkhurst said, as the lieutenant gave the signal for all to rise and take their places.

Filing out of the battery, the marines lined the bank on one side, and the sailors, other than those who were to work the guns, on the other.