184 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



ate, 1 who endorsed my papers and ordered 

 me not to proceed to Hamburg. As my or- 

 ders from Mr. Grey were to get in if there 

 was any possible chance, although I should 

 meet a cruiser, I informed my crew that I 

 should proceed to Tonningin, and, as the 

 same course for both places was alike for 

 Heligoland, 2 I ran for it on the same after- 

 noon. At five p. M. I saw the island of Heli- 

 goland and a Brig Cruiser standing out. 

 She spoke me, asked where I was bound, 

 and if I had been informed of the blockade. 3 

 I replied in the affirmative and proceeded 

 on my course. At nine p. M. a pilot boat 

 came alongside from Heligoland, but he 

 asked me eighty guineas for the pilotage. 

 I offered him five and no more, when he 



1 "L'Aimable," 32, Capt. Bolton. 



2 Heligoland was the place from which all vessels en- 

 tering the Elbe were obliged to take pilots to make their 

 insurance good. 



3 April 1, 1806, Napoleon forced Prussia to close her 

 ports and those of Hanover to the British, and England 

 replied by a blockade of the coast from the Ems to the 

 Elbe. 



