Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 403
American skippers were ^^g?^ forward amongst us, and they were^^^^^P^ of opinion that the chase was a man°^ of-war, although our own people seemed to doubt this. One of the skippers insisted that shewas the Hornet, from the unusual shortness of herlower masts, and the immense squareness of… … The Capture of the Cotton Ship 363 for action. At this moment a whole cloud of studding-sails were blown from the yards as if the booms hadbeen carrots; and to prove that the chase was keepinga bright lookout, she immediately kept away, and finallybore up dead before the wind, under the impression,…
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