The weather now lighting up more, we put her under headway again, doubled the island, and shaped our course E.by N.It was now 4:30 A.M., and I went below and turned in.

_Deo gratias._ Poor D., the quartermaster, I had to depose him from his high office of night look-out this night.

He had been remarked for his keen vision by night; but on this occasion he was so perturbed, that he saw a steamer bearing down upon him from every direction--even magnifying small sloops into frigates.

The evening of this day was lovely, and I think I have never seen a more beautiful, sedative, poetic, love-in-a-cottage landscape, than the valleys and hills presented in which lies the town of St.Pierre.All these charms were heightened by the presence of grim-visaged war.

Our run took every one by surprise--several of the officers had breakfast and dinner, appointments for several days ahead.