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Our journey over this part was very pleasant, the weather was fine and the mode of travelling, which was new to me, delightful. Our company, consisted in addition to ourselves, of only one person, Mr. Levalley, a gentleman from Ottawa. We passed four nights under canvas.
They carried guns of all descriptions, some of them with the barrels sawed off short like cavalry carbines; and not one of the men looked as if he knew the meaning of a square meal." "Like Washington's army at Valley Forge, eh?" observed LeValley, joining the group. "Yes, and they are fighting for their liberty, too." "How did they like being photographed?" asked Tommy. "Tickled to death.
Captain Brownson was rowed over to the "Dixie" to pay his respects, and on his return a rumor that we were to be relieved of coast patrol duty by the "Dixie" and to proceed to Key West, went through the ship like wildfire. Tom LeValley brought the news to a group of us gathered on the after gun deck.
It was a harvest day for the Montego Bay "bumboatmen." Though we bought the fruits without hesitation, we bit into them gingerly, for, to most of us, many of them were strange. Tom LeValley brought me a mango and said that I could have it if I would sample it and tell what it was like. I accepted, for I had not been lucky enough to get near a boat to buy for myself.
"Whoop!" Down the ladder charged LeValley, wildly flourishing his cap. He stopped in front of us and gasped: "Hurrah! we're going going to the United States, fellows." "What's up?" demanded "Stump." "The 'Dixie' " "Yes?" "She's to relieve us, and we are ordered to Key West and then to New York. We're going " "Rats!" broke in "Hay," in disgust. "You can't give us any game like that.
The "Yankee's" stay in Key West was marked by one of the most melancholy incidents of the cruise. Thomas Clinton LeValley, one of the first of the New York Naval Reserves to respond to the call for volunteers, died from appendicitis in the hospital ashore, to which he had been removed for treatment.
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