Their only hope was to hold their own while their boats took them off to the ships in small detachments.

The conflagration made the narrow battle-field as bright as day.

The soldiers were brave, and for new recruits moderately disciplined.

The pirates could hardly bear up under the crushing discharge of darts, and the steady onset of the maniples.

Up and down the contest raged, swaying to and fro like the waves of the sea.