Or if she prefers to come in, to anchor, to direct either that she shall depart twenty-four hours before me, or wait twenty-four hours after my departure, whichever she may prefer.

I shall be ready for sea in four or five days, as soon as my engineers make some necessary repairs to my machinery.
In conclusion, it is quite possible that the captain of the Iroquois may arrange some signals for giving him intelligence of my movements, with the United States consul at this port, and I have therefore to request that some officer may be charged with the prevention of any such act of hostility.
I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) R.SEMMES.
To His Excellency M.Maussion de Conde, Admiral and Governor of Martinique, During this night the Iroquois did not approach us so near as on the past night.

Closed in the gun-deck ports, got the swinging booms alongside, and directed the crew, in case of being called to quarters during the night, to repair to the spar-deck as boarders, boarding being the mode in which the enemy would attack us, if at all.[4] [Footnote 4: On the 14th, at 4 P.M.when we had nearly finished coaling and other arrangements for sea, a steamer was seen rounding the north point of the island.

She was under Danish colours, and had made, it was evident, some ludicrous attempts at disguising herself--such, for instance, as a studied disarrangement of her yards, and some alteration of her head-booms.

I was under the impression at the time that we were very old birds to be caught with such chaff.