We passed outside of the harbour a little before sunset, and held on to the light until midnight, when we steamed for the Strait of Gibraltar.
_Saturday, January 18th._--* * * * We entered the Strait of Gibraltar at about 5 A.M., passing the Tarifa Light, and with the bold shores of both Africa and Europe in plain sight, in the bright moonlight--bright, notwithstanding the passing clouds.

We made the Gibraltar light about daybreak, and saw at the same time a number of sail.

We gave chase to two that _looked_ American, which they proved to be, and which we captured.

The first was the barque Neapolitan, of Kingston, Massachusetts, from Messina to Boston, laden with fruit and fifty tons of _sulphur_.

The whole cargo was stated by the master, in his depositions, to belong to the Baring Bros., consigned to their agents in Boston--a falsehood, no doubt.