. The naval history of the United States. en the Mon-tauk returned to her consorts, well satisfied with her days work. The last of the Confederate privateers to ravage the ocean was theShenandoah, originally an English merchant-vessel engaged in the EastIndia trade. She was large, fast, and strongly built ; and the astute agentof the Confederacy knew, when he saw her lying in a Liverpool dock, thatshe was just calculated for a privateer. She was purchased by privateparties, and set sail, carrying alarge stock of coal and provisions, but noarms. By a strange coincidence, a second vessel left Li
. The naval history of the United States. en the Mon-tauk returned to her consorts, well satisfied with her days work. The last of the Confederate privateers to ravage the ocean was theShenandoah, originally an English merchant-vessel engaged in the EastIndia trade. She was large, fast, and strongly built ; and the astute agentof the Confederacy knew, when he saw her lying in a Liverpool dock, thatshe was just calculated for a privateer. She was purchased by privateparties, and set sail, carrying alarge stock of coal and provisions, but noarms. By a strange coincidence, a second vessel left Liverpool the sameday, carrying several mysterious gentlemen, who afterwards proved to beConfederate naval officers. The cargo of this second vessel consistedalmost entirely of remarkably heavy cases marked machinery. The twovessels, once out of English waters, showed great fondness for each other,and proceeded together to a deserted, barren island near Madeira. Herethey anchored side by side ; and the mysterious gentlemen, now resplenden:. 720 BLUE-JACKETS OF *6i. 721 in the gray and gold uniform of the Confederacy, stepped aboard theShenandoah. Then the cases were hoisted out of the hold of thesmaller vessel; and, when the machinery was mounted on the gun-deckof the Shenandoah, it proved to be a number of very fine steel-rifledcannon. Then the crew was mustered on the gun-deck, and informed thatthey were manning the new Confederate ship Shenandoah; and witha cheer the flag was hoisted at the peak, and the newly created ship-of-warstarted off in search of merchantmen to make bonfires of. From Madeirathe cruiser made for the Southern Ocean,—a fresh field not yet ravagedby any Confederate vessel. This made the hunting all the better for the Shenandoah, and she burned vessels right and left merrily. In the springof 1865, she put into the harbor of Melbourne, Australia, where her officerswere lavishly entertained by the citizens. Thence she proceeded to thenorthward, spending some
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