"It's giving an enemy the chance of raking us from stern to stem, but I don't believe they can hit us .-- I thought not." He said this smiling, as the water was churned up again by another shot, but several yards away upon our right.
Another shot and another followed without result, and by this time we were getting well out of range of the swivel gun, a poor, roughly-made piece, and our distance was being rapidly increased.
"Going away!" said Ching, as we saw the great mat-sails of the junk fill.
"Or to come in chase--which ?" said Mr Brooke quietly.

"It does not matter," he added; "we shall soon have darkness again, and I think we shall be too nimble for them then." "Beg pardon, sir," said Tom Jecks.
"Yes, what is it?
Your wound painful ?" "Tidy, sir; but that warn't it.

I was only going to say, look yonder." He pointed right away east, and, as we followed his finger with our eyes, they lit upon a sight which would have even made me, inexperienced as I was, think it was time to seek the shelter of some port.

And that something unusual was going to happen, I knew directly from Mr Brooke's way of standing up to shelter his eyes, and then, after gazing for some time in one direction, he turned in that of the great Chinese port we had so lately left..