YOH-HEAVE-OH! "Her condition was very bad, as bad as could be, without going straight to the bottom," the Admiral said to the Rector that night, as they smoked a pipe together; "and to the bottom she must have gone, if the sea had got up, before we thrummed her.

Honyman wanted to have her brought inside the Head; but even if we could have got there, she would ground at low water and fill with the tide.

And what could we do with all those prisoners?
With our fresh hands at the pumps, we very soon fetched the water out of her, and made her as tight as we could; and I think they will manage to take her to Portsmouth.

She has beautiful lines.

I never saw a smarter ship.