a quarter past two
She was now standing through the Menai strait . Twenty minutes after this a second gun was fired ; and the prodigious roar of echoes , which it awoke in the mountains , proclaimed that she had passed Carnarvon . At two the flashes of her guns became visible , and showed that she had uncovered the point of Llandovery . At a quarter past two there was light enough to make her out distinctly ; she carried a press of sail ; and a few minutes after that we discovered the smuggler in the offing , about three miles to leeward of the Falcon . `` The same high gale which had carried the Falcon so rapidly through the Menai , had baffled the smuggler in her attempt to go to the northward ; for that was obviously her intention ; and she still continued to tack in that direction . We expected that , as soon as she descried the Falcon , she would wear and run : but , greatly to our surprize , she took no notice of her -- but continued standing on her tack in the evident design of running to the outside of the isle of Anglesea . `` The Falcon , seeing her purpose , fired a shot to bring her to .