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We also found that the flag-ship Brooklyn, twenty-two guns, and the Oneida, nine guns, sailed in search of us. By their account of the course they steered they could not fail to have seen us. No. August 6th, 1863. Yesterday, at almost noon, a steamer from the northward was made down from the signal-post, Lion's-hill.
Could this be the Alabama? or was it the Hydaspes, from India, or the Lady Jocelyn, from England? All three were now hourly expected, and the city was in doubt. The inhabitants rushed off to get a sight. Crowds of people ran up the Lion's-hill, and to the Kloof-road.
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