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Chapter 40: The Alabama proceeds to Jamaica, and lands her prisoners the Captain visits the country intercourse with the English naval officers Earl Russell's letter preparations for sea a boat-race by moonlight Captain Blake Complains of Dixie how the matter is settled. The little by-play, in the Gulf of Mexico, related in the last chapter, being over, I determined to make the best of my way to the island of Jamaica, there land my prisoners, on parole, patch up the two or three shot-holes the enemy had made above the water-line, re-coal, and proceed on my eastern cruise, against the enemy's commerce, as originally contemplated. We had a long passage to Jamaica, as we took a succession of southerly gales, that greatly retarded our speed. My first intention was to make the whole run under steam, but after struggling against these gales for three or four days, I found my fuel diminishing so rapidly, that it became prudent to let the fires go down, and put the sh