temeraire leapt into the air : one of the frigates which he had thought disabled by the rocks had managed to turn broadside to the marechal 's dragondeck , and had all-too-cleverly reserved her fire until the moment when maximus had landed to take off the caltrops : all her guns had gone at once , and poor maximus had been exposed quite : a gaping rent showed in one of his wings , where the membrane hung loose as a piece of cut sailcloth , and he was bleeding black from shoulder and haunch and side .