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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
crew hauling down the main yard, and others preparing to leave. The Lieutenant then ordered that the pigs and fowls be killed, and demanded of the steward that all the fresh meat be transferred to the Alabama. The omnivorous Lieutenant also stole some sugar and tea. The main yard was down by this time and launched overboard and then hauled up on the Alabama. --The crew of the Wales then went aboard, and, excepting the Captain and Mr. Fairchild and family, the American Consul at Mauritius, were put in irons and imprisoned in the fire- room. The men were decently fed, but were only freed from irons to wash themselves in the morning. They were placed at no work. The Wales was then set on fire by the 1st Lieutenant of the Alabama, who went into the cabin, tore down the berths, piled the broken fragments on the table, and applied the match. As soon as the vessel was fairly on fire the Alabama sailed, and before she was out of sight the three masts of the Wales had falle