by John Marshall

“ At 8-30, p.m., the schooner brought up at a short distance, and without hailing, fired two shot at the Eliza. Mr. Nurse immediately opened a fire from his only gun, loaded with round and grape, supported by musketry; and after six rounds, the slaughter on the pirate’s deck must have been great, as the cries of the wounded were hideous. A felucca now bore down between the schooner and the Eliza, with the evident intention of running alongside the latter, but which she frustrated by getting under her bow, and instantly boarding. ”

“ Shot were heating, and the men armed with cutlasses, each having a long knife in his left hand. On our side two seamen were killed, and Mr. Nurse and six men severely wounded. Perhaps in few actions of the kind has a greater degree of cool and determined gallantry been displayed. ”