"Davies sent a horseman at a gallop from Algernon with the tidings.

He passed the ship, and it was a very great one.

We may thank this dead calm that it did not catch us unawares." Within the palisade was noise enough, but more order than without.

On the half-moons commanding the river, gunners were busy about our sakers, falcons, and three culverins.

In one place, West, the commander, was giving out brigandines, jacks, skulls, muskets, halberds, swords, and longbows; in another, his wife, who was a very Mary Ambree, supervised the boiling of a great caldron of pitch.