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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

CHAPTER IX
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The house of Peacock and Co.

refused to supply us, because it would offend their Yankee customers.

They made arrangements with another party.

The town of Gibraltar, from the fact that the houses are built on the side of the Rock, and stand one above the other, presents the beautiful spectacle every night of a city illuminated.

Colonel Freemantle politely requested me to visit the various batteries, &c.
_Wednesday, January 22nd_,--Wind still from westward.


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