Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 393
hes and thrusts 9o8 A BRUSH WITH MALAY PIRATES. [Sept. and counter-thrusts, all along the edge of thewhite deck of the Candace. Yet the sailors heldtheir own until the other proas shot in underBretts gun, making it necessary to divide theforce and to man each side. Then it was ten where were those… … IT WAS SHARP, QUICK WORK men instead of twenty against a force that knewtheir weakness and its own strength, but did notknow fear or mercy. Captain Gardner, with pistol and sword, ledthe fight on one side, and Mr. Barry was just asefficient on the other. It was a matter of eitherwinning or dying;…
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