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Browsing named entities in Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States. You can also browse the collection for St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) or search for St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) in all documents.
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Chapter 48:
The Alabama on the Indian Ocean
the passengers questioned, and contracted with
the Agulhas current
the brave West winds
a theory
the Islands of St. Peter and St. Paul
the tropic of Capricorn
the South-East trades and the monsoons
the Alabama arrives off the Strait of Sunda, and burns one of the ships of the enemy
runs in and anchors under the island of Sumatra.
When Bartelli awakened me, at the usual hour of seven bells—half-past 7 A. M.,—on the morning afte rther ahead of me. After lying to three hours, the barometer continuing to rise, and the wind to moderate, we filled away, and shaking out some of the reefs, continued on our course.
On the 12th of October, we passed the remarkable islets of St. Peter and St. Paul, a sort of half-way mile posts between the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Sunda.
These islets are the tops of rocky mountains, shooting up from great depths in the sea. They are in the midst of a dreary waste of waters, havin