CHAPTER XXVII.
_An official "in trouble"-- On shore again--A breakfast party--On horseback--Blowing hard--Taken in the net--Easy captures--The Kate Cory--The Lafayette--A polite Governor--The Louisa Hatch burned, and Kate Cory burned--Landing prisoners--Tired of waiting--A scramble--Out of harbour again._ _April 11th._--Light and variable airs; misty from the southward and eastward, and oppressive; ther.

83 deg..

Last night the two vessels lay alongside of each other so roughly, and we received so much damage (our forechannels being crushed in, and our topsail mainyard being carried away) that we were compelled to haul the prize off, and continue coaling by means of our boats.
The authorities on shore having hoisted no colours, we have not set ours to-day.

We were visited this morning by a couple of gentlemen from the shore, bearing a letter from the Governor in reply to an inquiry I had caused the Paymaster to address to him on the subject of supplies.

Their interpreter very naively informed me that he was a German, who had been sentenced to banishment here from Rio, and that he had a year and a-half to serve.