1 Atticus, iv ih^i Leader, writes thus 'of, the Cer bgruS :-^,*f is ' ; no daugev.pf any of her crew being shot •Jbut, tliey run the risk of being ematherecl. Suppose that the hostile fleet -which:: she is some; day.or; pnothpr to,-repulße,.,should . scud ; a •boat's crew of boarders armed, not : with s cutlasses and revolvers, but with (tarpaulins, and- ; tba't' some two of three 1 ' should effect k • la-riding* ' -upon 'her' deckhand quietly cover over the ventilators. I aria afraid the Cerberus would be "pretty much ( in. the P^siti^n #f the.kpigh^tSjOf ,ol<| ■i^ben.f. thV^iihflrses^^erie * ,k^jl,e t d [ jande^ •them, unable, toi-fdo-'.anythingi-ibecausa bf* 'the/height B>.'C^hje.tr.f.&rmour, and hors de combat because of the' very means which they had adopted for their better security."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 106, 6 May 1871, Page 2
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