244 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



Portsmouth, and speaking with another 

 cruiser only, I arrived off Portsmouth and 

 from thence off Dover, when I took a Pilot 

 and anchored on the downs at eight o'clock 

 in the evening. We parted, or cut our cable 

 as the Pilot would have it, as he cut it after 

 it had parted. We ran off Ramsgate and 

 brought to with our small bower. The next 

 morning a boat with cable, anchor and 

 buoy rope came alongside. We took it on 

 board and lay wind bound five days, when 

 we got under way and proceeded for Lon- 

 don, beating up the river with a Pilot and 

 two Custom House officers on board and, 

 although they were on the alert, not one 

 knew I spoke English and the most laugh- 

 able yarn vas, when I arrived at Graves 

 End, one of the officers went on shore to 

 bespeak me a breakfast and a passage for 

 London, but rogue like, he calls for liquor 

 to treat a number of his friends and told the 

 bar-keeper that the Spaniard upstairs will 

 pay you for all. The girl who attended the 

 coffee room and fetched my breakfast par- 



