I suppose they take about an equal number.

Your men-of-war ships capture more prisoners than ours, but we make up for it by the numbers our privateers bring in.

At any rate they might exchange as many as they can, say once in six months.

One would have thought they would be glad to do so so as to save themselves the trouble and expense of looking after and feeding such a number of useless mouths.

Governments always have curious ways." "But how did you get away from prison ?" Ralph asked.
"It was a woman," the man replied.