Her bulwarks were broken and splintered where she had ground against the other vessel in the sea, and Rinaldo soon reported that some of the seams had opened, and the water was coming in.
"Set the carpenter and some of the hands to work, to caulk the seams as well as they can from the inside, and set a gang to work at the pumps at once.

It is unfortunate that it is blowing so hard.

If the wind had gone down instead of rising, we would have recaptured the whole fleet, one by one." The Pluto was kept within a short distance of the captured vessel, and Parucchi presently shouted out that he had freed two hundred prisoners.
"Arm them at once!" Francis shouted back.

"Extinguish your light, and board the vessel whose light you see on your starboard bow.

I will take the one to port.