The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 206
To-day hes Rear-Admiral Lucas. You see twas thisway. I was just ready to fire when a great shellfrom the fort at Bomarsund crashed down besideus on the Heclas deck. And its fuse was blazingaway. The men were too scared to move. Butyoung Midshipman Lucas rushed across the deckand picked up that… … THE SANTA PAOLAS VICTORY ^JHIP ahoy, called the captain of the Spanish^^ galley, Santa Paola, to an English brigHearing Gibraltar. But the brig paid no attention,crowding on all sail to reach port Row, row,cried the taskmasters of the Spanish ship, lashingwith their whips the galley slaves chained…
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