sail sheets burned clean through and the huge spread of canvas camefloating down, covering the Buzzard. r him like the devil-winds of a typhoon, smashing through theforest and ploughing the earth around him. Bothships are standing in directly towards us. They pushed the fire ship the last few feet and bumped softly againstthe side of the empty skiff.
He strode out through-the gates and across the bridge of the moat. Ifhe misjudged it, he would dismast her, but if he succeeded in bringingher round, stern first to the wind, he would save several crucialminutes in getting back to the embattled galleon. Every nerve in his body was drawn as tight asthe bowstring in his fingers. Soon the beach was covered with struggling, shouting pairs of men nakedto the waist, heaving and spinning each other off their feet androlling in the white sand.
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