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The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Confederate privateer Japan or Virginia, her armament, &c. (search)
he wages offered-- The captain, however, stated that he had no wish to take any man with him against his will, and landed these hands here by the Alar. From Greenock the Japan proceeded to a creek on the coast of France, east of Channel Islands. The Alar, that has been for several years a regular trader between Newhaven and St. Malo and the Channel Islands, took on board at Newhaven nearly one hundred tone of goods, in cases, and cleared for St. Malo.--These goods consisted of twelve Whitworth guns, ten 10 pounders and two 10 pounders, with a large quantity of powder, shot and shell, and some provisions. She proceeded to the coast of France, and was there joined by the Japan and a French pilot. The two vessels ran in and anchored in the creek, where the transshipment of the goods between the two vessels took place during two nights. The Japan then left, and afterwards the Alar, the latter vessel being watched off the coast by a French frigate. The Alar lay two days in the cha