I have been enabled to negotiate a draft for two thousand dollars upon the Secretary of the Navy; Mr.T.Wetson, one of our fellow-countrymen temporarily here, having been patriotic enough to advance me this sum on the faith of his government.

He not only thus aided us, but was very anxious to come on board in person, if he could have wound up his business in time.

In the evening at 7 P.M.I removed on board from the Hotel do Porto, preparatory to going to sea to-morrow.
* * * * * On Sunday, the 15th September, the Sumter was again under way, and passed out of the harbour in charge of a pilot, Mr.Wetson accompanying her until she was fairly outside.

No Yankee vessels were found, as had been reported, and the pilot being discharged, and a warm farewell exchanged with Mr.Wetson, the Sumter stood away upon a north-east course in the direction of her proposed cruising-ground in the calm belt between the trades, the Cape San Roque project being for the present abandoned.

A dull time now commenced, great difficulty being experienced in forcing the vessel towards her cruising-ground against the current, which at times would carry her out of her course at the rate of more than fifty miles a day.