With short pieces of twelve, however, you would hardly venture within reach of long pieces of eighteen; although the first should be manned by Inglese, and the last by Francese ?" "One never knows.

At the Nile one of our fifties laid the Orient, a three-decker, athwart-hawse, and did her lots of injury.

The vaisseau, in fact, was blown up.

Naval combats are decided on principles altogether different from engagements on the land, Signor Colonello." "It must be so, truly," answered the soldier; "but what means this movement?
you, as a seaman, may be able to tell us, Capitano." This drew all eyes to the frigate again, where, indeed, were movements that indicated some important changes.

As these movements have an intimate connection with the incidents of the tale, it will be necessary to relate them in a manner to render them more intelligible to the reader.
The distance of the frigate from the town might now have been five English miles.