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very closely all vessels under the Spanish 

 flag, I made sale of the Brig to two differ- 

 ent persons in St. Jago, so she appeared 

 to be long owned in Cuba. The Com- 

 mandante of Marine was well acquainted 

 in Cuba. He had lived at Pensacola and 

 he furnished me with a Spanish name and 

 Spanish papers of naturalization and called 

 me Pedro Blanco, which name I passed by 

 during all the war. On leaving Cuba I 

 beat up and passed through the French 

 Keys. I ran for Halifax to clear the British 

 cruisers and when off Halifax, say eight 

 leagues, I was spoken by an English sev- 

 enty-four, a frigate and a schooner in com- 

 pany. It being foggy shortly after, I bore 

 up, ran down the coast twelve leagues to 

 the east of Halifax. I then got wood and 

 water which we were short of and discov- 

 ered the treachery of the inhabitants, as I 

 believe they sent on to Halifax to give in- 

 formation of me, but I sailed just at night, 

 to the surprise of those Tory and Irish 

 beggars of that place. Three days after I 



