We chased her some two hours, when it began to blow a fierce gale from the west, which obliged us to give over the chase and to haul up to prevent running to leeward of our port, and to put the ship under short sail and steam.

It blew very fiercely until near sunset, and raised a heavy, short, abrupt sea, in which the ship rolled more heavily than I had ever seen her before.
This shook our propeller so as to cause the ship to increase her quantity of water considerably--so much so that the engineer reported that under short steam he was just keeping her free with his bilge-pumps, and that if anything happened to these, he feared the other pumps would not be sufficient.

Under these circumstances, I ran in for the land, cutting short my cruise by a day or two, as Iliad still two or three days' coal on board.

We made the Cadiz Light in the mid-watch--( my fine chronometers!)--a beautiful red flash, and soon after got soundings.

Ran in for the light under low steam, and at 7 A.M.we were within four or five miles of it.