They might land at any of them, and of course the guns of the schooner would cover the landing if we opposed it." "Still we might beat them back," one of the others said.

"We can muster about three hundred men between us, and they are not likely to land more than that." "I don't think that would be a good plan," Captain Vipon said.

"To begin with, we can't tell which of the three places they may choose for landing at.

We certainly cannot hurry through the woods anything like so fast as they can row along the shore, so that would place us at a disadvantage.

In the second place, you know very well that we can't rely upon our men defeating an equal number of these John Bulls; and in the last place, we should not gain much if we did.