I dare say there may have been twenty women in the lugger." "I can't answer for the number, sir; but I heard female singing as we got near in the fire-ship, and think it likely there may have been that number.

The lugger was full-manned; for they were like bees swarming on her forecastle when we were dropping foul.

I saw Raoul Yvard by the light of the fire as plainly as I now see you, and might have picked him off with a musket; but that would hardly have been honorable." To this Cuffe assented, and then he led the way on deck, having previously ordered the boats manned.

The two officers proceeded to the spot where they supposed the Feu-Follet had been anchored, and rowed round for near an hour, endeavoring to find some traces of her wreck on the bottom.

Griffin suggested that, when the magazine was drowned, in the hurry and confusion of the moment, the cock may have been left open--a circumstance that might very well have carried down the bottom of so small a vessel in two or three hours; more especially after her hull had burnt to the water's edge.