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72 stoutly built, and of very hard wood, it defied their efforts, especially in their drunken condition. So, after having exhausted their powers of destruction, they departed. The two men below watched the pirate ship sail, but for eight or ten hours more they dared not come on deck. When they did so they found themselves in a mere hulk, in the midst of the Atlantic. Ignorant of which way to steer they contrived to hoist a small remnant of a sail, and abandoning themselves to the mercy of the winds, they reached in safety the coast of Africa. Soon after, they were picked up by a Portuguese man-of-war, and carried to the mouth of the Tagus, whence they shortly procured a passage to England.

famous seaman who, under the name of Paul Jones, made frequent descents on the eastern coast of Scotland during the war between Great Britain and her American colonies, was long regarded in this country as a mere piratical adventurer; but papers relating to his extraordinary career, which have been published during the present century, exhibit him in a far more favourable light.

One anecdote illustrative of his chivalrous character had indeed already become known in England. In 1778, commanding only a single frigate, he made a successful attack upon Whitehaven, where he took two