I don't suppose the gunners can make them out, now; for a certainty they won't be able to do so, as soon as they have moved off another quarter of a mile.

Of course a stray shot may hit them, but practically it is all over.
"I think that we can go on board again.

I did not think of it before, but they would hardly set fire to us, for the light would enable the gunners to see them till they were a long way out.
"There is no doubt those Englishmen can fight.

Our men are all right when they are under sail, and it is a question of exchanging broadsides, but the success of so many of their cutting out expeditions shows that, somehow or other, we lose heart when we are boarded.

We must have had nearly twice as many men as there were in those four boats, and yet it seemed to be a certainty, as soon as the English got among them.
"Our craft had much better have sailed out together when the brig came in this morning, and fought her fairly.