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So long as any great noise and bustle was avoided, the sentinels on the walls of the fort would only suppose, if sounds reached their ears, that the watch on board were securing the gallivats at their moorings.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Looking back he saw a number of torches flitting along the shore; and now two or three dark objects, no doubt boats, were moving from the farther side of the jetty towards the gallivats.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

The hulls of the gallivats and their tall raking spars could now be seen looming up out of the blackness.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

The scene was brightly lit up, and he saw that two of the gallivats had been towed away from the burning vessels, from which the flames were now shooting high into the air.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

A column of fire rose toward the sky from the gallivats that were blazing most brightly.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

Six of the men on board the gallivats had been disposed of.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

He had learned, moreover, by cautious and apparently casual inquiries, that the gallivats were under a guard of ten men, the grabs of twenty.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

The Dutch ship is assaulted; grabs and gallivats galore swarm upon the face of the waters; all is confusion worse confounded; in a brace of shakes we are in the toils.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

They appeared to be trying to cut out the middle of the three gallivats, which seemed to be as yet uninjured, while the vessels on either side were in full blaze.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

To Desmond, turning every now and again to watch the increasing glare from the burning gallivats, it seemed that he scarcely advanced at all.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang