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that it deeply interested every Confederate States naval officer, afloat at the time.
I, myself, made several passages, in neutral vessels, between neutral ports, and might have been captured with as much propriety, even when passing from Dover to Calais, as Messrs. Mason and Slidell had been.
On the 13th of November, my water-tanks being full, and my crew having all returned from liberty—none of them having shown any disposition to desert—we got up steam, and proceeded to the town of St. Pierre, for the purpose of coaling; arriving at the early hour of 8 A. M., and anchoring at the man-of-war anchorage, south of the town.
I immediately dispatched a lieutenant to call on the military commandant, accompanied by the paymaster, to make the necessary arrangements for coaling.
St. Pierre was quite a different place, from the quiet old town we had left.
A number of merchant-ships were anchored in the harbor, and there was quite an air of stir, and thrift, about the quays.
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