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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

CHAPTER IX
10/51

The general impression is, that the Yankees will give them up, and that there will be no war.

The packet from New York is expected in England to-day.

In the meantime, Great Britain is calling home her ships of war; the Mediterranean fleet arrived at Gibraltar on January 2nd, and threw the commercial community into the greatest consternation.

Received final permission this evening from the Captain-General to enter dock.
_Saturday, January 11th_ .-- Visited the shore.

Cadiz full of life and bustle.


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