ring musketry, while the others got the gun on the poop, and
pointed it at the boat.

Mr Tottenham now commenced firing as fast as the spare hand could load
for him, being just able to keep way with the brig.

Four of the men on board the brig having been hit, her crew left the
gun, and after firing muskets for twenty minutes, finding that they were
unable to weather the land or tack without being boarded by the boat,
they ran the brig on shore. Here her crew, to the number of eighteen,
including three wounded men, abandoned her, leaving another mortally
wounded on board.

In the course of the afternoon the brig was perceived from the mast-head
of the _Hyacinth_, which stood in and anchored, and hove her off; when
she proved to be of 200 tons, fully equipped for conveying about 1000
slaves, with two guns of four pounds calibre loaded, a barrel of powder,
and a quantity of langridge-shot, a number of muskets, swords, and
bayonets on the deck. Almost every bullet expended in the gig was
traced to the gun-carriage, or its immediate vicinity on the poop.

A PINNACE ATTACKS A SLAVER--1845.

On the 12th of January 1845, Lieutenant Lodwick, first lieutenant of HM
steamer _Growler_, Captain Buckle, who had been away for some time
cruising in the pinnace on the look-out for slavers, fell in with a
felucca, which, on seeing the pinnace, hove to. The lieutenant
naturally expected that she would make no resistance, as she might have
got away if she had chosen. When the pinnace, however, was within
thirty yards of the felucca, a whole range of muskets was observed
pointed over her bulwark. After this, Lieutenant Lodwick cheered his
men on to get up to her before she discharged this fearful battery; but
no sooner was the cheer uttered than the felucca opened on the boat.
This was a staggerer for the British boat; but fortunately the slaver's
crew fired too high (the felucca had now filled, and was going just as
fast as the boat could pull). Lieutenant Lodwick--the rim of whose hat
was shot through--at once returned the first volley with a round shot
and 180 balls in a bag. A second volley from the felucca told with far
more disastrous effect; two men were shot dead, and Lieutenant Lodwick
and two men severely wounded--the lieutenant having been struck on the
left knee and thigh. This left the pinnace with so few men, that,
having also had six of her oars shot away, Lieutenant Lodwick was
obliged to abandon the chase, and