"They surrounded our force, and tumbled them into the hold as though they had been pigs, slashing them with their cutlasses if they tried to get out.

I saw the fat officer in command of the enemy; he was very active, and I leaped on deck, determined to cross weapons with him.
But he hit me in the shoulder with his cutlass, and I lost my hold on the rail." "You ought to have led your men, not followed them," said Lonley bitterly.
"That is easy enough for you to say; but I wanted to be where I could see my men," retorted the first lieutenant, of whom the second had a very mean opinion, perhaps because he got his position on account of being the captain's brother.
"Whether I did right or not, I can tell you all one thing; and that is, that we shall be prisoners if we stay here any longer.

They have got our men under the hatches, and they have ordered out a boat to look for an officer they sent ashore." "We can do nothing here, and we may as well put ourselves in safer quarters, for we have two prisoners to lose," said Lonley.

"Mr.
Passford, I shall have to trouble you to march to the other side of the island." "I am your prisoner, Mr.Lonley, and I must obey your orders, though I am sorry to be away from my ship in the hour of victory," replied Christy submissively.
But he felt that his plan had been fully carried out..