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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 47: (search)
atermen. These men, in substantial launches, under close-reefed sails, and with spare anchors and cables on board, for the use of any ships that might be in distress for want of sufficient ground-tackle, were darting hither and thither, like so many spirits of the storm. They seemed to be sporting with the dashing and blinding waves and the fury of the gale, in very wantonness, as though they would defy the elements. The ships at anchor were all fortunate enough to hold on; but a luckless Bremen brig, outside, which had ventured too near the land, was wrecked, during the night, on Green Point. Fortunately, no lives were lost. The gale lasted about twenty-four hours; and when it had sufficiently abated, we communicated with the shore, and got off such supplies as we needed; it being my intention to run round to Simon's Town, on the opposite side of the Cape, where there is shelter from these gales, for the purpose of completing my repairs. On the 9th, the weather had again becom
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 51: (search)
of Aujenga, and the Hindoos the great Deserts of Central Asia, and the cotton crop of Hindostan Alabama crosses the Arabian sea the Animalcule of the sea the Comoro Islands Johanna and its Arab population the Yankee whalers at Johanna Alabama passes through the Mozambique Channel, and arrives at the Cape of Good Hope. On the afternoon after leaving the Strait of Malacca, we overhauled another American ship under neutral colors —the Bremen ship Ottone. The transfer had been made at Bremen, in the previous May; the papers were genuine, and the master and crew all Dutchmen, there being no Yankee on board. The change of property, in this case, having every appearance of being bona fide, I permitted the ship to pass on her voyage, which was to Rangoon for rice. For the next few days we coasted the island of Sumatra—taking a final leave of the North end of that island on the last day of the year 1863. A court-martial had been in session several days, settling accounts with the