10/15 The night squally, with showers of rain, and the wind fresh. At 1.30 A.M.the stranger approached, and we spoke him. He was a small schooner--white, as almost all the West Indian schooners are--Spanish, &c. Turned in at two o'clock, and at daybreak down came intelligence again that there were two sail in sight, and at 7 A.M., one of them being within signal distance, I had again to turn out. This night will serve as a specimen of a great many spent by me in my cruises. |