The Blockade Runner — page 166: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. 167% CHAPTER XX. A DANGEROUS MISSION, THe sea for some distance around the spot where the Foxhound had met her fate at the hands of her mad captain was strewn with fragments of the disaster. The captured sailor’s words impressed Bentham. He did not, therefore, scour the sea in a boat in a vain search for Powell, but contented him with picking up a sailor now and then, and at last rowed back to the Avenger. The men of the Foxhound told Graham that they had lately cleared at Nassau with acargo consisting of army clothing, besides a lot of medical stores for the Confederate army, that they did not expect to run across the Avenger, which they understood had de- parted on a cruise in search of the privateer Shenan- doah. They said that Bentham’s last shot had disabled their engines, besides killing three men. Thanks to that shot, the sea had been rid of a pest, and the swiftest blockade runner in the Confederate service was at the vottom of the deep. Bentham then learned for the first time that the Foxhound had picked Captain Powers up after the sinking of the Swiftwing, and taken him to Nassau, where he was getting ready to go to sea as the com- mander of a strong vessel named the Destroyer, whica English gold had purchased and manned, Comicaoo S wy (© 5}