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The Wing-and-Wing

CHAPTER XIX
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This will bring you fairly abreast of the gulf and about midway between the two capes, a little west of south from Campanella.

Lyon, you can lie here until the night has fairly set in, when you can pass between Capri and the cape and run down south two hours and heave to.

This will place you in a position to watch the passage to and from the gulf under the northern shore." "And this arrangement completed to your satisfaction, Captain Cuffe," asked Lyon, deliberately helping himself to an enormous pinch of snuff, "what will be your pleasure in the posterior evolutions ?" "Each ship must keep her station until the day has fairly dawned.

Should it turn out as I trust it may, that we've got le Few-Folly in-shore of us, all we'll have to do will be to close in upon her and drive her up higher and higher into the Bay.

She will naturally run into shallow water; when we must anchor off, man the boats, send them north and south of her, and let them board her under cover of our fire.


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