This did not cost us more than half-an-hour's strenuous labour, at the completion of which all hands went to work to tumble a sufficient quantity of ballast into the felucca to enable her to stand up under sail; and the moment that this was done I sent her out to sea, with a midshipman and four hands on board--in order that she might not fall into the hands of the pirates--with instructions to return only when the British ensign should be displayed from the battery.
