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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

CHAPTER IX
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Sent to Cadiz-for coal.
_Thursday, February 21st._--* * * * The newspapers state that there are seven Yankee ships in pursuit of us--four steamers and three sail-ships.
Three of the steamers were at Teneriffe on the 11th of January.

A report has reached us that our Paymaster and ex-Consul Tunstall are prisoners in Tangier! Received a letter from Captain Warden, informing me that the Governor had prohibited all vessels in the harbour from making signals, and had prohibited the Tuscarora from communicating with the harbour by boats so long as she remained in Spanish waters, &c.
_Saturday, February 22nd_ .-- The report is confirmed of the illegal imprisonment in Tangier of Paymaster Myers and Mr.Tunstall..


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