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āđāļāļĢāļāļīāļ āļāļĢāļĩ 20 āļāļēāļ āđāļĄāđ āļāđāļāļ āđāļāļĢāđ "But don't you believe it will be better to appeal to the flag-officer?" asked the second lieutenant. "You may depend upon it that we shall be under the guns of Fort Barrancas, or farther up the bay, before daylight," replied the actual commander. "A steamer, sir," answered Gorman. "No, sir; nothing but the voices; but I think the speakers must be in a vessel of some sort, for 205 the sound since I first heard it, and could hardly make it out, comes from farther south," replied the man. The strength of the Bronx was mainly in her heavy midship gun. The commander had ascertained the range of the twenty-four pounder barbette guns of the fort, and made his calculations accordingly. He could batter down the masonry of the works at his leisure, if he chose to waste his time and ammunition in that way; but the Confederates proposed to abandon the fort, and it would not pay to destroy it.