 | 1843 - 684 pagina’s
...schooner had altered her course ; heading up to the wind in a direction THE ESCAPE OF THE ATALANTA obliquely across the bows of the rapidly advancing...let fly all the guns she could bring to bear. This manœuvre lessened her head-way, and before she could repeat the discharge, the schooner had got so... | |
 | Wm. S. Mayo - 1849 - 542 pagina’s
...captain, taking the wheel into his own hands, "now men, go below, all of you! we shall catch a grist 01 two of grape, and you may as well keep under cover...let fly all the guns she could bring to bear. This manceuvre lessened her headway, and before she could repeat the discharge the schooner had got so far... | |
 | 1849 - 970 pagina’s
...fault. Soon she was nearly athwart the fore-foot ot the frigate, and within musket shot. ' A flash fr»m the bow-port, and a twenty-four- pound shot dashed...moment more the frigate braced sharp up and let fly all thn guns she could bring to bear. This manoeuvre lessened her headway, and before she could repeat... | |
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The two vessels were now rapidly approaching each other, the frigate steadily pursuing her course, apparently confident that the prize was within her grasp ; while the Atalanta, with the luff of her foresail shivering, was, in the expressive language... 