The Blockade Runner — page 158: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER, - 159 CHAPTER XIX. CAPTAIN POWELL KEEPS HIS OATH. Arter the fruitless chase of the Foxhound, Captain _ Graham picked up his boats, and laid his course for Charleston to report to the admiral of the station the result of his first marine duel, and to deliver his pris- oners that they might be sent North. He was in particular good humor, for the first clause in his sealed instructions, directing him to hang about the Bahamas and capture or destroy the steamer Swift- wing, before she could get away upon her lawless errand, had been fulfilled to the letter. The Avenger had been roughly handled in the late fight, but not so badly but the carpenters and machinists on board could soon repair all damages. But some things were beyond repair—a dozen hardy Yankee tars lay on the lower deck in a row sewed up in their hammocks ready for the solemn service that was presently to consign them to the universal watery churchyard where no tombstones mark the last resting ~ places of many thousands of the wanderers on the trackless deep. It was on the evening of the day following that the Avenger approached the Yankee squadron off Charles- ton. It was pretty dark on the water, as the sky was overcast by clouds, and a half-gale was blowing, kick- ing up a tolerably nasty sea. — Comicdoo S (©) 5}