SHOWING WHAT BECAME OF THE "ANDROMEDA" The island artillery did not succeed in hitting the crippled ship again.

Three more shells were fired, but each projectile screamed harmlessly far out to sea.

A trained gunner, noting these facts, would reason that the shore battery made good practice in the first instance solely because its ordnance was trained at a known range.

Indeed, he might even hazard a guess that the _Andromeda's_ warm reception was arranged long before her masts and funnel rose over the horizon.

That the islanders intended nothing less than her complete destruction was self-evident.