However, from along the bushes on either side fresh assailants poured out.
"Jump on board, lads, jump on board!" Mr.Hethcote shouted, and each sailor, discharging his musket at the enemy, leapt into his place.
"Give them a volley, Mr.Pascoe.Get your head round and row.

Don't let the men waste time in firing." The volley from the launch again momentarily checked the enemy, and just as she got round, another discharge from the gun further arrested them.

The boats were not, however, thirty yards from the shore before this was lined with dark figures who opened a tremendous fire of musketry.
"Row, lads, row!" Mr.Pascoe shouted to his men.

"We shall be out of their sight in another hundred yards.".