If the body was indeed that of Roger, then, thank Heaven! he was safe for the time being; but the poor lad was nevertheless still in a very precarious situation, being on board a Spanish ship. Harry could see also that the vessel was in manifest distress, and had apparently not much longer to float. It was some time after this that Cavendish, having at length disposed of his previous antagonist, ordered his ship to be laid alongside the _Gloria del Mundo_, with the object of capturing her out of hand, and making a prize of her before she sank. This was accordingly done, and the crash which Roger had heard, followed by the cries and musketry, was indeed, as he believed, the result of the English vessel being laid alongside and the rush of the English boarders. It goes without saying that Harry was among the first to board, and he immediately commenced his search for Roger, but unluckily began it in a totally different quarter from that in which Roger had been placed. The _Gloria del Mundo_ was soon in the hands of the English, but it was found that she was sinking too fast for them to save her, and the boarders were at once recalled. Harry, however, determined not to leave without his friend, and he was therefore left behind when the Englishmen returned to their own vessel. The grapnels uniting the two ships were cut, and at once the craft began to drift apart, Harry being left on board the Spanish vessel searching for Roger. How he found him and rescued him, obtaining possession of certain documents at the very last moment, and hoisted Roger on deck even as the ship swamped beneath their feet, has already been told. Now, as to the result of the action. Of the two ships first engaged by the English--the _Maria Dolorosa_ and the _Buena Vista_--the latter had been sunk at the commencement of the action, and the former had blown up. The third ship, the _Gloria del Mundo_, had sunk. The _Salvador_ and _El Capitan_ were the only two of the Spanish fleet that still remained afloat, and both were fearfully knocked about. The _Salvador_ had lost all her masts, every one of her boats had been smashed to pieces by the gun-fire of the English, and her sides were everywhere perforated with shot-holes. But a prize crew had been put on board her, and was now hard at work patching her up and rendering her seaworthy, rigging jury-masts, cutting away wreckage, and otherwise putting her once more into sailing trim. _El Capitan_ was in a similar condition. She had still her mizzenmast standing; but otherwise she was as badly damaged as her companion, and was undergoing the same repairs and refit.