Orders to throw the ship up into the wind and heave to were shouted and, as no attention was paid to these, several musket shots were fired at her; but the wind held and, faster and faster, the Swan made her way through the water.

At last the boats fell behind, and were lost to sight.
"We are safe now," Reuben said, exultantly.

"We are to windward of them all, and shall have them well out of sight, before morning." When day broke, indeed, the topsails of three of the Spanish ships could be seen on the horizon; but in two or three hours these sank out of sight, and the Swan was headed on her course west..