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St. Pierre (search for this): chapter 37
East India (search for this): chapter 37
South America (search for this): chapter 37
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 37
Chapter 37:
The calm-belts, and the trade-winds
the arrival of the Alabama at the island of Martinique
the curiosity of the islanders to see the ship
a Quasi mutiny among the crew, and how it was quelled.
We captured the Wales, as described in the last chapter, on the 8th of November.
On the 10th of the same month, we observed in latitude 25°. We were approaching the calm-belt of Cancer.
There are three of these calm-belts on the surface of the earth, and the phenomena whic cruise, and when I shall mention the trade-winds and the calm-belts, hereafter, the reader will not, I hope, regret the time I have consumed in refreshing his memory on so interesting a subject.
We spoke several English vessels after burning the Wales, and a couple of them, bound to Demerara, kept company with us through the calm-belt.
We sent a boat on board one of them, from New York, but she had neither news nor newspapers.
At length, when we had reached the parallel of about 20°, we beg
Trinidad (Trinidad and Tobago) (search for this): chapter 37
Demerara (Guyana) (search for this): chapter 37
Terceira (Portugal) (search for this): chapter 37
Martinique (search for this): chapter 37
Chapter 37:
The calm-belts, and the trade-winds
the arrival of the Alabama at the island of Martinique
the curiosity of the islanders to see the ship
a Quasi mutiny among the crew, and how it was quelled.
We captured the Wales, as described in the last chapter, on the 8th of November.
On the 10th of the same month, we observed in latitude 25°. We were approaching the calm-belt of Cancer.
There are three of these calm-belts on the surface of the earth, and the phenomena which ry little now about the Iroquois, and vessels of her class.
Having doubled the north-east end of Dominica, during the night, at four o'clock, the next morning, we lowered the propeller, put the ship under steam, and ran down for the island of Martinique.
We passed close enough to the harbor of St. Pierre, where we had been so long blockaded, to look into it, and see that there were no men-of-war of the enemy anchored there, and, continuing our course, ran into the anchorage of Fort de France,
Dominica (Dominica) (search for this): chapter 37
Iroquois, Wyoming (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37