268 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



leader, being the one who hailed me. He 

 only discharged his large gun three times 

 alongside, as our third shot broke his car- 

 riage and his gun fell into the lee scuppers. 

 He then kept up as smart a fire with mus- 

 kets and blunderbusses and dropped near 

 the stern, expecting to find more comfort- 

 able quarters, but he there got a most ter- 

 rible cutting up from a brass 3-pounder, by 

 which he was raked within twenty yards 

 distance with a round shot and two bags 

 of forty musket balls each, which com- 

 pletely fixed him. His vessel holding such 

 a wind and going so fast she soon was clear 

 of grape shot range and wore ship. I did 

 not receive any more fire from him or even 

 hear a word spoken on board of him, and 

 in fact did not see any one on deck. Our 

 loss was one man killed, shot through the 

 head, about forty musket balls through 

 the rudder case, tiller, skylight, and com- 

 panion way, our foretopsail halliards shot 

 and our trysail halliards cut in three 

 places. We counted twenty-two men when 



