But the fun was not yet over; as a matter of fact it had really not begun--the affair of the batteries was merely the overture of the little drama which was taking shape in the skipper's brain.  We stretched off the land until we were about three miles distant from the mouth of the bay, and then the ship was hove-to and preparation was made for the dispatch of a cutting-out expedition; that is to say, an attack upon the Indiaman by the frigate's boats, with the object of overpowering her prize-crew, cutting her cables, and bringing her out of the harbour.