The Yankee Champion — page 44: what you’re looking at

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a ts 2 ngs "ie sw Ske ~ ; THE YANKEE CHAMPION. a. ually, after four of their number had fallen, they fell back toward the quarter-deck, and threw down their arms. The brig was carried, and the Americans now stood upon their own deck. The lanterns, by the light of which the battle had been fought, still stood safely upon the hatches, and Nixon bade some of his men take three of them. ‘“W here is the master-at-arms?’’ asked he. “T am that officer,’’ answered an Englishman, as he stepped forward from his companions, “Then go below with my men and show them where the irons are.”’ In a short time the men returned loaded with hand and foot irons, and the Americans commenced placing them upon their prisoners, and ere long the ruffed Englishmen were laid away in the scuppers to await further orders. Upon examination it was found that the Ameri- cans had lost two men, and that three more were slightly wounded, while the English had six killed, besides some dozen or so who had been cut upon the _ hands and arms. Just as the deck had been cleared up, one of the men who stood near the weather bow, reported a boat just under the fore-foot. “Boat ahoy!’’ shouted Walter, as he sprang for- ward upon the forecastle. Three pistol shots were returned from the boat, “Boat ahoy !”’ ‘Buckingham !’’ returned the boat. — “Then Buckingham yourselves back into the port!’’ shouted Walter, while his men laughed at the peculiar fix of the old Tories. m comicbooks (EO)