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Updated: June 25, 2025
It was a curious illustration of the various turns of fate here below to find in 1869 the Sultan, the Commander of the Faithful, sending the Giaour Hobart Pasha, the erst Secesh blockade-runner, to the island of Crete to put down blockade-running on the part of the intensely patriotic but occasionally troublesome Greeks.
Good money is paid at Cowes to see no more spirited sailing we had to put a shot across the bows of the leading dhow before they would abandon the race. There was always trouble off Jeddah the approaches to that reef-girt harbour lend themselves to blockade-running dhows with sound local knowledge on board.
It was in the spring of 1862 that I found matters beginning to settle down to a degree that threatened monotony; and with the termination of the winter gaieties at Naples and the close of the San Carlo, I seriously bethought me of accepting the offer of a naval friend who was about to engage in blockade-running, and offered to land me in the Confederate States, when a recrudescence of activity on the part of the brigand bands in Calabria induced me to turn my attention in that direction.
"Your daughter has had time enough to tell you all about it since you came home." "But I heard about it before I left Newbern." "You did! Who told you?" "Well, I heard all about it." "What if you did? I don't see how Hanson's disappearance could interfere with your blockade-running." "Mebbe you don't, but I do.
"I have been in London twice, though I don't know enough about it to answer all the questions that may be put to me," added Christy. "In that case we had better be Frenchmen, as we were before. We are not likely to find many people here who speak French, for the visiting portion of the population must be people who are engaged in blockade-running.
"I am glad the Hattie got through the blockade all right seeing that you were aboard of her," said Jack, when Marcy brought his story to a close. "But if Uncle Sam doesn't do something to break up blockade-running, he'll have a war on his hands that will make him open his eyes. It will not take me five minutes to tell my story.
Not until the plan was adopted of shipping the goods to some neutral port along our coast, and there transferring the cargo to some small, swift vessel, and making the run into the Confederate port in a few hours, did the business of blockade-running become very extensive.
Her captain, when he saw the prize, said: 'I must go on board and shake hands with the gallant fellow who commands that vessel! and he did so, warmly complimenting C on the courage he had shown, thus proving that he could appreciate pluck, and that American naval men did not look down on blockade-running as a grievous sin, hard work as it gave them in trying to put a stop to it.
And when at last Fort Fisher was taken, and thus all blockade-running entirely put an end to, the enterprise had lost much of its charm; for, unromantic as it may seem, much of that charm consisted in money-making. However, I will mention one or two instances to show what the love of enterprise will lead men to do, and with these I will close my narration.
Probably nine-tenths of the people in the hotel were directly or indirectly concerned in the business of blockade-running; and secrecy was hardly necessary in that locality. "As I say, Captain Rombold, we need more fast steamers, not to run the blockade, but to prey upon the enemy's commerce.
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