Chapter 27: XXVII

XXVII The Battle in Houseboat Bay “Then, having washed the blood away, we’d little else to do Than to dance a quiet hornpipe as the old salts taught us to.” Masefield The Amazons were the first to wake in the morning, because for some time they had been sleeping in a house, and had not grown accustomed, like the Swallows, to the early morning sunlight through the white tent walls. “Show a leg, show a leg,” they shouted to the others and soon had the whole camp astir. “Re…