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Title: The Cyr Readers: arranged by grades
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cyr, Eleen M.
Subjects: reading
Publisher: New York: Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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nd that the5 fleet seemed to lie behind a breakwater. As we camecloser to them, however, we saw more clearly thescheme of their order. Put out your right hand withthe thumb extended; call the thumb the Cavite spit,and the space between the thumb and the forefinger 10 Cavite Bay. Manila lies about where the nail of theforefinger is. The town of Cavite lies in the pocket ofthe thumb and forefinger, and the thumbs nail standsfor the main Cavite batteries, four in number. Put apencil halfway across from the thumbs nail to the first 15 joint of the forefinger, and it will stand for the Cavitearsenal with its boom extension. Behind this boomlay the gunboats of the Spanish fleet, while in front ofit, facing Manila Bay, were the Spanish cruisers. They lay anchored while we made our first and 20 second parallels of attack, but by the time we weresweeping up on the third course the smoke pouredout of the Eeina Cristinas smokestacks ; there wasa fleece of white gathered about the steam pipe, and
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Drawn by Frank T. Merrill. Engraved by Robert Varley. THE BATTLE OF MANILA BAY. -43 30 B^-the flagship moved out to the attack. She gallantlystood for the Olympia, and it looked as though it wereher intention to ram us. The Commodore passed theword to concentrate all possible fire on the Eeina Cris- 5 tina, and she actually shivered under the battering ofour storm of shot and shell. Rents appeared near herwater-line where the eight-inch shells had torn theirway. One shot struck the port bridge on which Ad-miral Montojo stood, upon which, like the brave man 10 he was, the Admiral coolly stepped to the other end. But no bravery could stand the driving, crushing, rending of the tons of steel which we poured into the Cristina, and there was quite a little cheer from our forward men as the Spanish flagship slowly turned and is made for the shore. In the whole duel between the Cristina and the Olympia sixty of the Spanish crew were killed, in-cluding the chaplain and the first lieutenant. I

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