Please stand aside, Captain. El Grang has taken intohis service a foreign ship of greater force than any we can send out tomeet it. Instantly he recovered his balance and leapt over Maatzuyker's bodyjust as another musket shot crashed out and the pellets hissed past hishead. His men were being forced to yieldmore of the deck and retreat towards the bows.
Friend and foe were so intermingled that he could only watch helplesslyas the fight surged back and forth across the open deck below him. There came an untidy volley of musket fire, aimed at the frigate, thepopping of the jezails and puffs of gunsmoke along the dhow's side. He was a lad no longer. I see you, my brother! Aboli greeted him, and the courtiers moanedwith horror at this breach of protocol.
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