It was my opinion--founded upon our experiences during the recent fight--that if the pirate schooner was to be tackled successfully, it would have to be by a bigger craft than the _Wasp_, or, at all events, that if the _Wasp_ was to be again employed against the pirates, she would certainly have to be equipped with a very much heavier armament; her insignificant little array of six 9-pounders could never be expected to cope successfully with the other craft's fourteen 12-pounders and her long 32.
