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to return to our anchors, and watch and wait.
In half an hour more, the sailors were lounging idly about the decks, under well spread awnings; the jest, and banter went round, as usual, and save the low hissing and singing of the steam, which was still escaping, there was nothing to remind the beholder of our recent disappointment.
Such is the school of philosophy in which the seaman is reared.
Our patience, however, was soon to be rewarded.
Early on the next morning, which was the 30th of June, the steamer, Empire Parish, came down from the city, and coming alongside of us, put on board some fresh provisions for the crew, and about one hundred barrels of coal, which my thoughtful, and attentive friend, Commodore Rousseau, had sent down to me. Having done this, the steamer shoved off, and proceeded on her trip, down Pass à L'Outre, to the pilots' station, and lighthouse.
It was a bright Sunday morning, and we were thinking of nothing but the usual muster, and how we should get
crew, with the hope that she may be able to elude the vigilance of the blockading squadron, of the enemy, and run into some one of the shoal passes, to the westward of the mouth of the Mississippi, as Barrataria, or Berwick's Bay.
In great haste, I avail myself of this opportunity to send you my first despatch, since leaving New Orleans.
I can do no more, for want of time, than barely enumerate, without describing events.
We ran the blockade of Pass à L'Outre, by the Brooklyn, on the 30th of June, that ship giving us chase.
On the morning of the 3d of July, I doubled Cape Antonio, the western extremity of Cuba, and, on the same day, captured, off the Isle of Pines, the American ship, Golden Rocket, belonging to parties in Bangor, in Maine.
She. was a fine ship of 600 tons, and worth between thirty and forty thousand dollars. I burned her. On the next day, the 4th, I captured the brigantines Cuba and Machias, both of Maine, also.
They were laden with sugars.
I sent them to Cien