The " Pound of Candles" proved to be a good-sized schooner, newly painted and decorated with certain flags, whose significance was not understood by Robinson.
One night he bombardedRiohacha from a schooner and the garrison dragged out of bed and shot the fourteen best-known Liberals in the town as a reprisal.
Madame Zheng’s confederation drove five American schooners to safe harbor near Macao, captured a Portuguese brig, and blockaded a tribute mission from Thailand —all in a single day.
At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point of Denmark, in the night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by Cape Lindness, and entered the North Sea.
When it sank, they provided the Russian crew numbering five hundred men with shelter, winter clothing, and food, and later with artisans, materials, and tools for the construction of a new schooner.