Then a new hope came to me.
"Men," I said, "let us take the other vessel, and then come back on this; they are worth winning." They cheered.

And now the fight seemed to be even--ship to ship at least, if our foe was larger and higher and swifter than ours; for I thought that he would hardly have a crew like mine.
We up helm and stood away on the new course the foe had taken, leaving the crippled ship astern very fast.

And now we began to edge up towards the other vessel, meaning to go about under her stern, and so shoot to windward of her on the other tack.

But then I thought of a plan which might help us in the fighting.

There had seemed little order and much shouting on board the ship we had left when her sail fell, and maybe there was the same want of discipline here.
"Out oars, men! Keep them swinging, but put no weight on them.