In chapter 10, Aboard the Lugger, the night riders set off on a small sailboat towards France the night after Jim was captured. The journey starts off smoothly, but at the end of the chapter, other ships are spotted. Marah says Jim might never come back. In chapter 11, The Frigate Laocoon, they discover that one ship is a cutter, and there are several ships from the British Navy coming after them. The small sailboat, or lugger, ends up beating the cutter in a battle, but not without damage. Then they outmaneuver the frigates, but get a little more damage from those. However, the frigates go towards a coral reef, and Marah warns them, allowing them to go free, because they helped the frigates.
This part is probably not completely historically accurate, because no ships were actually raided, but there could have just been some purely cannon battles. However, I thought that this part was interesting. There were a lot of technical terms that I did not know, but I looked them up in the helpful glossary at the back of the book.
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