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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
a Habana was a screw steamer of about six hundred tons, an excellent sailer and staunch sea-boat. She was plying between Havana and New Orleans, and happened to be at the latter port when secession was proclaimed; the Confederate government purchaseand Paris in the capacity of envoys extraordinary. These two agents left Charleston by the steamer Theodora, and reached Havana after eluding the vigilance of the Federal cruisers. On the 7th of November they embarked, with their secretaries, Messrabyrinth, more difficult of exploration than the inhospitable regions to which he had given his name. Chance took him to Havana, where he found the Confederate commissioners feasted by that pro-slavery community and preparing for their departure, co to post himself in the Bahama channel, and waited quietly for the English steamer, which was to pass there after leaving Havana. The Trent hove in sight on the 8th of November at the very hour that Wilkes had expected her. Everything was ready for