Pursuit was evidently hopeless, and reluctantly the lieutenant ordered the men to row back.

On returning to the scene of combat, they saw sunk near the bank the fourth of the prahus.

"The spy was so far right," the second lieutenant muttered--"this fellow did sink; now we must see that she does no more mischief." He brought the captured prahu alongside the others, whose decks were but a foot or two below the water, and fired several shots through their bottoms.

Then he set the captured craft on fire and took to the boats, which with great difficulty forced their way under the fallen tree and rowed back to the ship.
The third lieutenant had been shot dead, twelve men had been killed, ten of the midshipmen's party were missing, and of the rest but few had escaped without wounds more or less serious.
Harry was the first to recover his senses, being roughly brought to by a bucket of water being dashed over him.

He looked round the deck.