A sailor's life under four sovereigns . One of the lastbooks I had read at the Naval College was his actionin the Speedy sloop of 14 guns, with a crew of 54men, when he captured the Spanish frigate El Gamo,Captain de Torres. It was on this occasion thatCochrane admitted he had nearly caught a cruising off the coast of Spain, he saw what hetook to be a large merchant ship. On drawing near,she opened her hitherto disguised ports, and disclosedthe broadside guns of a frigate. Without going intofurther details, she was carried by boarding. Therewere killed on board the El Gamo the Cap
A sailor's life under four sovereigns . One of the lastbooks I had read at the Naval College was his actionin the Speedy sloop of 14 guns, with a crew of 54men, when he captured the Spanish frigate El Gamo,Captain de Torres. It was on this occasion thatCochrane admitted he had nearly caught a cruising off the coast of Spain, he saw what hetook to be a large merchant ship. On drawing near,she opened her hitherto disguised ports, and disclosedthe broadside guns of a frigate. Without going intofurther details, she was carried by boarding. Therewere killed on board the El Gamo the Captain and13 seamen, and 41 wounded, exceeding in numberthe whole of the officers and crew of the second in command of the El Gamo succeededin obtaining from Cochrane a certificate stating thathe had fought his ship like a true Spaniard. Captain Hunn took a house at Boto Fogo, oneof those beautiful inlets in the harbour facing theSugar-loaf, about three miles from the town. I wasagain kindly included in the family party. The. Meet Lord Cochrane. 3» A Sailors Life chap. 1824. principal Portuguese and most of the English mer-chants had residences there. Aug. 2. At midnight a salute of 101 guns was fired from the batteries in honour of the birth of a Prince andfuture Emperor. The salute was repeated at day-light, noon (when we joined), sunset, and midnight. Lord Cochrane had sailed with his fleet : an em-bargo was laid on all ships for three weeks. Picnicsand every sort of amusement went on. Aug. 8. The embargo being removed, we sailed with the early breeze in company with some 500 sail of allnations. The show of white canvas was a beautifulsight. When outside and in the open we spreadout like a fan. Aug. 17. Arrived off Bahia—Bahia de los Todos Santos (Bay of All Saints)—perfectly sheltered and capableof holding the fleets of all nations. Cochrane hadbeen before us, and the Brazilian flag had replacedthat of Portugal. We anchored on the west side ofthe bay, ofF the
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