Cienfuegos. Released by Captain-General of Cuba. _
Trenh Fidel <expresses <at> sossusice.cz>
2010-09-30 14:28:52 GMT
Er way slowly to the southward and eastward
in search of the little island at which she was to take
in her supplies, and which she might at any moment run past in the
darkness altogether! Trying work, indeed, for the patience of men cooped
up in their narrow floating prison, and longing to be at work
again. Too trying, at last, to be borne
any longer without an effort at action; so a bold attempt was made at
coaling while under way upon the open sea! Steam was got up, and the
prize taken in tow, and then two boats were lowered, and set to work.
But the scheme, bold and ingenious as it was, was soon found to be
impracticable. The boats managed to get loaded from the captured
collier, but they had then to be warped up alongside the Alabama, and
the lowest speed
that could be given her was too great for them to be hauled up against
it. So each time, as they were filled, it was necessary to stop the
engine, and thus occasion another
difficulty. We now--says Captain Semmes--began to part our tow lines by
these stoppages and startings, and it took a long time
to get the line fast again; so after a sleepless night, during which,
as I lay in my cot trying to sleep, it seemed as if a dozen
stentors on deck were rivaling each other in making the night hideous, I
sent word
to get the boats run
up again, and to continue our course to Fernando de
Noronha without interruption. At daylight we made the peak of the island
a long
way off, some thirty-eight or forty miles, and in the afternoon at 2.30
came to, with
the peak bearing S.W. 1/2 S. and the N.E. end of the Rat Island N.E. by
E. 1/2 E., depth of water thirteen and a half fathoms.
Anchored the prize
near us. But for our steam we should have been still drifting to the
S.W., as the day has been nearly calm throughout. Fernando de Noronha,
in the
wayside of the commerce of all the world, is sighted by more ships, and
visited by fewer, than any other spot of earth. It is a broken,
picturesque, volcanic rock,
in mid ocean,
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