That villain, that rascal, that pirate--as I verily believe him to be--selected me especially for this service, I am persuaded, just because he knew me to be unfit for it.

Bah! but I'll pay him off for it.

Come, boys, forward--perhaps, in the circumstances, it would be more appropriate to say upward! We must go through with it now, as our retreat is cut off.
Lead the way, Hugh; your eyes are younger and sharper than mine; and if you chance to fall over a cliff, pray give a yell, like a good fellow, so that I may escape your sad fate." In the course of half an hour's rough scramble, the party gained the crest of the Goat's Pass and descended in rear of the native village.
The country over which they had to travel, however, was so broken and so beset with rugged masses of rock as to retard their progress considerably, besides causing them to lose their way more than once.

It was thus daybreak before they reached the heights that overlooked the village; and the shot from the Avenger, with the broadside from the frigate, was delivered just as they began to descend the hill.
Ole, therefore, pushed on with enthusiasm to attack the village in rear; but he had not advanced half a mile when the peculiar and to him inexplicable movements of the two vessels, which have been already described, took place, leaving the honest commander of the land forces in a state of great perplexity as to what was meant by his naval allies, and in much doubt as to what he ought to do.
"It seems to me," said he to his chiefs, in a hastily-summoned council of war, "that we are all at sixes and sevens.

I don't understand what maneuvers these naval men are up to, and I doubt if they know themselves.