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 NAVAL BATTLE OFF SUWALI 27 Hosiander keeping up a fierce fire, " and danced the hay about them so that they durst not show a man upon the hatches/ ' At 9 a.m. the English captain, probably fearing to go aground himself with an ebb- tide on the shallows, stood out into deeper water and anchored. The respite enabled the Portuguese frigates to come to the aid of the three galleons, which they AN EARLY TYPE OF ENGLISH 8HIP. " shoared up with their yards," and so got afloat again. In the afternoon, as soon as the tide permitted, the English renewed the fight, and kept it up till dark, when they anchored in the estuary six miles from the Portuguese. At 9 p. m. the enemy sent a fire-ship down upon the Hosiander, but the English sank her by a cannonade, with an estimated loss to the Portuguese of between 120 and 140 men.