The passage, too, would have to be made for the most part under canvas, and would probably not occupy less than fifty days.

Of course, she had now but six or seven days' supply of coal--a small reserve in case of emergency, and hardly sufficient to enable her to cruise a few days on the other side, and, if possible, not go quite "empty-handed" into port.
Still the days were not altogether uneventful, and before the week was out, a fine prize ran, as it were, into her very arms.

Of this capture the journal gives the following account:-- _Tuesday, December 3rd_ .-- At 6.30 A.M.Sail, ho! a point on the starboard bow.

At 7.30 the sail, which was standing in nearly the opposite direction from ourselves, approached us within a couple of miles.

We hoisted French colours, when she showed United States'.