I am glad I held out to go with the Headquarter staff.

I would have died on the regular press boat, as it is the men are interesting on our boat.

We have all the military attaches and Lee, Remington, Whitney and Bonsal.

The reason we did not go was because last night the Eagle and Resolute saw two Spanish cruisers and two torpedo boats laying for us outside, only five miles away.

What they need with fourteen ships of war to guard a bottled up fleet and by leaving twenty-six transports some of them with 1,400 men on them without any protection but a small cruiser and one gun boat is beyond me.