laurence leaned over the side : granby waved up from his boat , which having sent off half her men now rowed away around the other side of the polonaise , where she faced the marechal , and began the critical work : they flung up ropes to men on deck to be looped over the railing , and began to draw up the chainmail netting , pillaged from the dragons ' equipage , to lie over the portholes of her guns .