The men threw their caps into the air, and shouted until they were hoarse.

The officers shook each other by the hand, and all were frantic with delight at the narrow escape they had had.
As soon as the brig had dropped anchor boats rowed off to her, but nothing further was learned.

Just as she was leaving Plymouth an officer had come on board with dispatches, and instructions to the captain to signal immediately he arrived at Cork that if the Twenty-eighth had not already sailed they were to be stopped.

Owing to the lightness of the wind the brig had been eight days on her passage from Plymouth.
For another fortnight the regiment remained on board ship.

The imprisonment was borne more patiently, now they felt sure that they were not at any rate to be sent across the Atlantic.