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The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter

CHAPTER IX
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No answer from the Captain-General yet (noon), as to our being docked.

Besides the six ships which Mr.Welles says have been in pursuit of me--viz., the Powhattan, the Niagara, the San Jacinto, the Iroquois, the Keystone State, and the Richmond--the Ino and the Dacotah are also employed in this fruitless business.

We are fairly in the hands of the circumlocution office.

I suppose they are telegraphing Madrid.

The greatest excitement prevails all over Europe to learn the result of the English demand for the Commissioners.


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