14 LIFE OP AUDUBON. 



the entrance, and had fired on an American ship ; that they 

 were impressing American seamen, and that, in fact, they 

 were even more dangerous to meet than the pirates who sailed 

 under a ' letter of marque.' The captain, warned of one danger, 

 ran into another. He took his vessel through Long Island 

 Sound, and ran it upon a spit in a gale. Floated off the 

 Adventurous ; finally reached New York in safety." 



