I shall not draw upon your agent, as I expect, when I return to Naples, to receive nearly forty pounds as your share of the cotton and articles taken out of the Spanish Polacre we captured.
"Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I"
Sir John Ross
They then proceeded to the lower part of the harbor, where they embarked on board a large rowing Polacre that was left there for the purpose, and, the tide ebbing out, they fell gently down with it, and passed both the forts.
"White Slavery in the Barbary States"
Charles Sumner