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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 18: (search)
o make out the well-known and welcome stars and stripes. We hove him to, by hail, and hauling down the false colors, and hoisting our own, we sent a boat on board of him, and captured him. He proved to be the Joseph Parke, of Boston, last from Pernambuco, and six days out, in ballast. The Parke had been unable to procure a return cargo; the merchants of Pernambuco having heard of the arrival of the Sumter, at Maranham, in rather uncomfortable proximity. We transferred the crew of the capturePernambuco having heard of the arrival of the Sumter, at Maranham, in rather uncomfortable proximity. We transferred the crew of the captured vessel to the Sumter, replacing it with a prize crew, and got on board from her such articles of provisions, cordage, and sails as we required; but instead of burning her, we transformed her, for the present, into a scout vessel, to assist us in discovering other prizes. I sent Lieutenant Evans on board to command her, and gave him a couple of midshipmen, as watch officers. The following was his commission:— Sir:—You will take charge of the prize-brig Joseph Parke, and cruise in company
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 42: (search)
a disorderly array of sails whipping and flapping in the wind, and of yards swinging to and fro, presented itself. At last the little craft managed to come to the wind, and make a halt. She proved to be a Portuguese brig, and the crew had been so alarmed, at being chased and fired at, by night, as to lose all presence of mind, and become incapable of any action whatever, until they were somewhat reassured, by the near presence of our ship and the sound of our voices. She was bound from Pernambuco to Lisbon, with a cargo of hides and sugar. It was, indeed, something like a ghost-chase, to see the Alabama coming, in the dead of night after the little craft, with her seven-league boots on, and those awful trysails of hers spread out in the moonlight like so many winding-sheets. On the day after this adventure, a Dutch bark and an English brig came along; and on the same night, we boarded the English four-master, the Sarah Sands, from the East Indies for Falmouth. At daylight, the
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 43: (search)
settlement of Brazil a visit from the Governor's ambassadors a visit to the Governor in return the Aristocracy of the island capture of the Lafayette and the Kate Cory burning of the two last ships, with the Louisa Hatch prisoners sent to Pernambuco the Cloud Ring, and the rainy and dry seasons. Fernando de Noronha lies not a great way from Cape St. Roque in Brazil. It forms the western end of a chain of volcanic islands and deep-sea soundings that extend some distance along the equatdrifted so far, that there was nothing visible except a column of smoke. I afterward changed my determination of converting the Cory into a cartel. A small Brazilian schooner having come into the anchorage, offered to take all my prisoners to Pernambuco, if I would provision them, and give her, besides, a few barrels of pork and flour for her trouble. This I at once consented to do, and the Governor having no objection, the arrangement was forthwith made. I was thus enabled to burn the Gory,
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
g. This I promised to do, and the messenger departed. I found, upon glancing over the article, which filled a couple of columns, that it was a Yankee production done into very good Portuguese—the joint work, probably, of the Yankee Consul at Pernambuco, where the article had originated—for it had been copied into the Bahia paper—and the President of that province. It was written after the style of a proclamation, was signed by the President, and strangely enough addressed to myself—supposed ng, as he alleged, some guns and ammunition covered up in her coal! His Excellency then wanted to see my commission— the gad-fly having buzzed pirate! pirate! To add to the. complication, news now came in that the Florida also had arrived at Pernambuco! Diablo! what was to be done? An aide-de-camp now came off with a letter from his Excellency, telling me, that I had already tarried too long in the port of Bahia, and that he desired me to be off. I wrote him word that I was not ready, a