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The Reindeer went ahead at full speed, while the Bellevite stood up the / bay, picking up the crew of Mr. Blowitt's boat on the way, evidently / with the intention of taking part in the action which the Bronx had / initiated. The loud reports at intervals indicated that the Bronx was / using her big midship gun, while the feebler sounds proved that the / metal of the battery was much lighter. The prize was not a fast steamer, / and she was over an hour in making the dozen miles to Egmont Island, on / which was the tower of a lighthouse forty feet high, but no use was made / of it at that time.
The Bellevite proceeded very slowly, sounding all the time; but at the / end of half an hour the Reindeer was at least ten miles from her, which / was practically out of sight and hearing. About this time Christy / observed that Captain Stopfoot left the pilot-house, where he had / remained from the first; but he paid no attention to him. He had three / men on the quarter-deck of the steamer, one in the pilot-house with him, / and five more in other parts of the vessel.