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This swiftly executed manœuvre laid the _Saucy Arabella_ board-and-board the great Spanish galleon. A dozen grapnels fell and tore and shivered the timbers of the huge _San Salvador Contra Bonos Mores_. A wild, yelling swarm of boarders swept over the rail -- thirty men against six hundred.
On the quarter-deck, Don Dago de Matador y Mantilla, Lord Admiral of Castille y Sapolio and grandee of Spain, livid of face, short of breath, dumb with despair, frantically raged, as all Spaniards do. Speechless, he shouted conflicting contradictory commands to his craven crew. The Spaniards, though outnumbering the attacking party twenty to one, were demoralized by the knowledge that these were Englishmen, entitled to win by all the rules of the writing game.