I cannot wait longer for the norther,[10] so I must get under way.

At 11 A.M.
got under way, and stood out from the anchorage under steam.
Let the steam go down, hoisted the propeller, and put the ship under sail.
[Footnote 10: One of the officers of the Alabama enters in his journal that on this day, in anticipation of news being received of Lincoln's proclamation, a tombstone, consisting of a board about four feet in length and two in breadth, was sent on shore and placed in the most prominent position the largest island afforded.

Inscribed on the tombstone, in black letters on a white ground, was the following:--"In memory of Abraham Lincoln, President of the late United States, who died of nigger on the brain, 1st January, 1863."-- "No.

290." Upon a piece of paper, protected from the weather, was written in Spanish--"Will the finder kindly favour me by forwarding this tablet to the United States Consul, at the first point he touches at ?" This affair originated with, and was executed by, the steerage officers.].