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Captain Breaker desired to obtain better information in regard to the Teaser, as the negroes said she was called. She was quite small, and carried only a single long gun, and it was suspected that she was a privateer. On the evening of the Bellevite's arrival, the weather was rainy, foggy, and thick.
But the Tallahatchie was in a position where it was plain sailing now, and her future troubles would all come from the blockaders. "There you are!" exclaimed the engineer, as the peal of a gun boomed over the water from the westward. "The steamer has been seen by a blockader, and she will catch it now." "I don't believe that was one of the Bellevite's guns," added Christy.
At any rate the men the commander had rallied for a charge did not appear. The smoke was blown away in a minute or so, and the Bellevite's sailors had made a lodgment on the deck of the enemy. They were led by the officers of the divisions, and were rushing over to the starboard, where the enemy's men had been concentrated.
The shaking and straining of the ship had for some time indicated that Paul Vapoor was fully alive to the importance of getting the Bellevite's best speed out of her on the present occasion; and he did not intrust the duty to his subordinates. Christy opened the cabin door, and Midshipman Walters asked for the commander, and was admitted. "Mr.
Another order required him to proceed to a point on the western coast of Florida, where the enemy were supposed to be loading vessels with cotton, and break up the depot established for the purpose, where it could be supplied by the Florida Railroad. The new commander packed his clothing, and he was sent with Christy in one of the Bellevite's boats to the Bronx.
I have been master of a vessel for the last ten years, and I know the Southern coast better than most of your officers." "No doubt you will find a place when you want one, for all competent men are taken," replied Christy, as he went to the quarter to see if the Bellevite's cutter was in condition to be towed by the Reindeer.
"I persuaded Captain Folkner not to do it," added the Bellevite's officer, very quietly. "He ought to have done just what I asked him to do; and that was to send his boats over to the place named for the men." "And I persuaded him to do that also," continued Christy, as unblushingly as though he had not been strictly in the habit of telling the truth all his lifetime.
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