When he gave the order to 'give way,' they hung back: didn't care about it." "They knew better," said Donovan.

"We could have knocked every one of them on the head before they could have got up the side.

It ain't as if 'The Curlew' was loaded down, and lay low in the water.

It's about as much as a man can do to get from a boat up over the bulwarks.

They might have hit some of us with their carbines; but they couldn't have boarded us, and they knew it." "You noticed what he said about knocking the impudence out of us ?" said Wade.