"Look out, all thin skulls!" And as he spoke, a puff of white smoke rolled from the eastern fort, and a heavy ball plunged into the water between it and the ship.
"I don't altogether like this," quoth Amyas.

"What do they mean by firing on us without warning?
And what are these ships of war doing here?
Drew, you told me the armadas never lay here." "No more, I believe, they do, sir, on account of the anchorage being so bad, as you may see.

I'm mortal afeared that rascal's story was true, and that the Dons have got wind of our coming." "Run up a white flag, at all events.

If they do expect us, they must have known some time since, or how could they have got their craft hither ?" "True, sir.

They must have come from Santa Marta, at the least; perhaps from Cartagena.