ut his own
throats, for want of some of ours."

"Where, where?" said the knight of the pillbox, skipping upon a gun.

"There, that notomy-looking thief with a sword two fathom long in his
fist. Give him a blue pill, doctor; he looks as though he was billy-us."

The doctor raised his rifle--and Captain Diego Pinto, commander in his
Most Catholic Majesty's navy, slept with his fathers.

A heavier sea than ordinary, a moment after this, lifted the Albatross,
and forced her ahead: the bowsprit of her antagonist snapped close to
the knight-heads; but, being held by the lashing, the guarda-costa was
towed along, till a blow or two of a pole-axe severed the rope that
connected the two vessels, and she dropped astern. The desperate and
frantic courage of the Spaniards died with their commander; their first
lieutenant had received a slight splinter-wound in the foot at the first
fire of the Albatross, in consequence of which he went below, and had
not been seen on deck since; the second lieutenant's orders were not
attended to; and all was anarchy and confusion on board. A few minutes
after she drifted from the Albatross, her foremast, already badly
crippled and no longer supported by the bowsprit, fell over the larboard
bow, dragging down with it the main topmast. At this the Yankees
cheered. The Albatross soon after wore ship, and stood to the westward.
Upon mustering the crew, it was ascertained that but one man was killed,
and eight more or less wounded; her sails and rigging were much cut up;
and the services of all hands were immediately put in requisition, to
repair damages, and put the ship in condition to proceed on her voyage.

The first intelligence of the victory was conveyed to Isabella by Morton
himself. As he approached her place of refuge with his head bound up
with a bloody handkerchief, having received a slight wound in the left
temple from a splinter, she uttered a scream of terror, and it was long
before she could be convinced that the wound was trifling. As lady
passengers are of no great use on deck when the ship's sails and rigging
are hanging about her ears, she was conducted once more below.

In the mean time Jones, as he trudged backwards and forwards, thought he
saw something amiss about the galley, which he entered, and a moment
after backed out, exclaiming,

"D--n my two-and-twenty top-lights! if this here doesn't beat all my
going down east!"

"What's the matter, Jones? what are you swearing