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 70 OPERATIONS IN THE SEA OF AZOF. 1 1 A P. [V. 9th .Tuni". < Operations on the shore of Kiten Bay. in dcop water found near the shore, Lieutenant Horton proved able to land from Kiten Bay Mr Roberts the gunner ; and he with but two men to aid him destroyed sacks of flour collected for em- barkation to the number of about 30,000. It was not within the time limited by the bounds of this Narrative that Sherard Osborn and Hewett completed the work of destruction or obtained (as they did before long) the control of the Arabat Spit — that singular natural causeway thrown up between the two seas which, with scarce room for anything else, still carried the im- perial post-road a distance of some eighty miles, and therefore seemed precious to Russia. Losses ol the Rus- sians : of tho Allies; Causes ol their iui- mucity. From all these operations recounted in the Sea of Azof, there resulted a loss to the enemy's com- bative forces of a few score men killed or wounded, and to the Allies a loss of two men wounded. This happy immunity from serious loss proved superbly the seaman-like qualities of young Lyons and M. SMaiges and the officers and men acting under them — sailors charged with duties which aimed at firm repression, not conquest, and at what was rather forcible government than flagrant war between equals. The immunity, we can see, was obtained by unfailing presence of mind, by a naval skill ever ready for each successive emer- gency, and withal by the well-applied daring of particular men. Thus, when Lieutenant Cecil