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on the corsair's decks and, whilst the main body battled the astonished ruffians, one or two secured the helm, and got the brig be- for the wind-Saucy Sally bearing her faith. full companion, her passenger riflemen pick ing up the banditti with surprising accuracy. Discounted on every hand, the surveyors hurried below, leaving their trophy in the Sally's power. The boats meanwhile, foiled almost in the moment of possession, row ed with all the energy of despair; but the breeze had once more set in strong and steady, and both the Saucy Sally and the VOmito were dropping them fast.

 The maniac yells rent the air-the water flashed under the fury of their strokes, and the boats were urged onward with strength almost Superhumau. At the moment when hope must have been all but dead within them, the Vomty suddenly hove up in the winds eye. Could it be! Had the mer- chanuran tailed and were their comrades victors! :! They paused upon their oars, join ing company, as if 10 ponder the course proper to be pursued.

 Brief was the space permitted for consid- eratiau. A splash, a stunning report and an iron shower sped its fatal flight, scattering with one crash, the dying and the dead, with the skiffs that bore them, in ruined fragments upon the devouring deep. Their own trust ed weapons had been turned upon themselves; and O'Donoghue, by the mouth of their boasted Long Tom, had sped them unanneal- ed to their account.