I shall not draw upon your agent, as I expect, when I return to Naples, to receive nearly forty pounds as your share of the cotton and articles taken out of the Spanish polacre we captured.
They returned in three days, with the news of seeing the polacre sail into Barcelona, where the galleys durst not go to attack her.
They then proceeded to the lower part of the harbor, where they embarked on board a large rowing polacre that was left there for the purpose, and, the tide ebbing out, they fell gently down with it, and passed both the forts.
The firing continued, the flashes became brighter, the smoke began, as the sky darkened, to grow luminous, and presently the polacre appeared to be sinking.
I say, Benjie, my dear, I think I had better pull under the stern of the polacre to reconnoitre a bit.
So being desirous of avoiding all chance of a hoist of this kind, we dropped anchor in the felucca, and got the boats alongside, all to the cutter, which was sent to pull round the polacre and reconnoitre.
I would sell my polacre even to have the right to put the rope around your neck.
I pity the privateers of the Holy Terror to the Moors, by the Grace of God, if the voyages of this poor old polacre have no better results!
The commander having ordered Captain Trinquetaille to remain on board the galley, the polacre was directed by the second in command, and followed the black galley's movements.
Three days after the dreadful combat between Pierre des Anbiez and Erebus, the black galley and the polacre of Luquin were anchored in the port of La Ciotat.
If I knew that those two rascals dared even to look at your shoes as you pass, I would make a figurehead for my polacre of one, and a weather-cock for my mast of the other!
Gallantly armed with six swivel-guns, it was the business of the polacre to escort vessels from La Ciotat which, forced by their commerce to have free intercourse with the coasts of Italy, dreaded the attacks of pirates.
After a few tacks, he distinguished perfectly the commander's black galley and Captain Trinquetaille's polacre to his windward.
So, by turns carried to the top of the waves and plunged in their depths, the polacre was hastening with frightful speed to tie narrow entrance of the channel, where the waves were dashing with fury.
Toward evening, just as the sun was sinking below the horizon, the black galley and the polacre arrived in sight of the isles of Ste.
There he found his galley ready to depart, and set sail at once, followed by the polacre of the brave Trinquetaille.
The polacre carried two long twelves and ten eighteen-pound medium guns, a description of cannon between a carronade and long gun, much in use amongst the contraband slavers; but she was pierced for twenty.
I was seized with fever two days after this, but nothing farther occurred to the polacre worth recording, until we arrived at Havanna on that day fortnight.
Suddenly, to his delight, when the brig was within a hundred yards of the polacre he saw her head come up, while the crew began to haul upon the sheets.
She was astern just now, and she is abreast of the polacre now, as near as I can make out.
We may as well speak the captain again," Bob said, and the polacre closed again with the brig.
Before morning the yard was in its place and the sail set and, except for the shortened mizzen, and a ragged hole through the bulwark, forward, the polacre showed no signs of the engagement of the evening before.
The polacre may be one thing, or another, but I should hardly think she has come across the Atlantic.
The polacre mounted eight guns, all 14 pounders; and in a few minutes these were loaded.
She was a polacre brig, of about a hundred and fifty tons.
That big fellow has got twelve on a side, the polacre has eight, and the xebec six, so between them they have fifty-two guns.
One of the shot cut away the main-topsail yard; another struck the deck abreast of the foremast, and then tore through the bulwarks; but the polacre was now making good way.
They saw, however, the boat row to a large polacre lying next to the Spaniard, on the other side.
At four in the afternoon they rounded the Point, the polacre a few hundred yards ahead, and both flying Spanish colours.
The three Spanish vessels had all been edging in towards shore, and the polacre anchored just before sunset.
The polacre was soon brought close alongside of the brig.
On the 8th of January a Neapolitan polacre was driven in under the guns, by the wind from the other side of the bay, and was obliged to drop anchor.
The capture of the polacre had not been effected so silently.
They were in high spirits at the captures they had made; and the news which Brown gave them, that the polacre was laden with wine, assured to each of them a substantial sum in prize money.
Meantime the polacre ran alongside, thirty or forty cut-throat fellows jumped on board, and very quickly transferred the cargo of the Pretty Polly on board their vessel.
Why, sir, I was bound out of Liverpool with a cargo of manufactured goods for Smyrna, when yesterday, as I was standing on my course with a light wind, I fell in with a polacre brig with a signal of distress flying.
Which way did the polacre stand after she left you?
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