For hours the two vessels were so close that the passengers engaged in a kind of battle.

Those on _The Star_ began it by hurling turnips at the men on the other ship who responded with a volley of apples.

Solomon discerned on the deck of the stranger Captain Preston and an English officer of the name of Hawk whom he had known at Oswego and hailed them.

Then said Solomon: "It's a ship load o' Tories who've had enough of Ameriky.

They's a cuss on that tub that I helped put a coat o' tar an' feathers on in the Ohio kentry.