Two of my men were shot and one of theirs, and there were a good many cutlass wounds on each side.

We have taken a score of prisoners, but they are all country people who were assisting in the landing; the smugglers themselves all got off.

We made a mess of the affair altogether, thanks to some fellow who rushed down and gave the alarm, and upset all the plans we had laid.
"It is too provoking.

I had got news of the exact spot and hour at which the landing was to take place.

I had my men all up on the cliff, and, as the fellows came up with kegs, they were to have been allowed to get a hundred yards or so inland and would there have been seized, and any shout they made would not have been heard below.