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them off at us, but without doing any damage. Every man in the ship for whom there was a musket, or who
"Mr. Urquhart tried the effect of the nine-pounders"
possessed a rifle or gun of any description, was employed under the second officer in picking off the men on the reef or those in the water. But as fast as they dropped
