Very true,” replied Jack; “and as for a passage home in a man-of-war that will be more difficult still.
We took of the man-of-war's men thirty-five; several are wounded, and one since dead; twenty-four are sent to headquarters.
And you know mighty well, you ain't got any man-of-war to signal now.'
William Hotham, their Commodore, was on the man-of-war Preston.
At all events, a call makes people come up fast enough on board a man-of-war, father.
