However, old boy, we did a good night's work.

We saved sixteen lives, we got no end of credit, and the chief says he shall send a report in to the Admiral; so we shall be mentioned in despatches, and it will help us for promotion when we have passed.

The bay is a wonderful sight.

The shores are strewn with floating timber, bales of stores, compressed hay, and all sorts of things.

Fellows who have been down to the town told me that lots of the houses have been damaged, roofs blown away, and those gingerbread-looking balconies smashed off.