This event practically ended the contest for the deck of the steamer.

The boarders crowded upon the crew and drove them to the bow of the vessel, where they yielded the deck, and submitted to the excess of numbers.
"Don't butcher my men!" cried the captain of the Arran, raising himself partially from his place where he had fallen.

"I surrender, for we are outnumbered two to one." But the fighting had ceased forward.

Mr.Baskirk was as earnest to save any further slaughter as he had been to win the fight.

Christy came on board of the prize, not greatly elated at the victory, for it had been a very unequal affair as to numbers.