I brought her to, and she proved to be United States property.

She was the Mina, of and from Baltimore, for Port Maria, on the north side of Jamaica.

Her cargo being English, I released her on a ransom bond for 15,000 dollars.

She was of ninety tons, and thirteen years old.

Kept her by me until sunset, and then permitted her to depart, having sent on board her the prisoners from the barque Parker Cook.
Our hopes of capturing a Californian steamer were considerably damped by the intelligence given us by the mate of this schooner, that these steamers no longer ran this route, but that the outward bound took the Mona Passage ( ?), and the homeward bound the Florida gulf passage.