LAST YEARS 



The fourth effected her escape with the 

 boats and crews of the others. Not a man 

 was captured. However this is to be re- 

 gretted, the officers of the 'Alligator' had 

 the satisfaction of burning the vessel that 

 plundered their tender. The captured 

 schooner was sent into Havana and the 

 'Alligator' has brought into Charleston 

 her other prizes, a Columbian armed 

 schooner called the ' Cienega,' whose crew 

 had mutinied at Reggia Island, and a 

 sloop found at sea with no living creature 

 aboard but a dog." 



Fortunately we are enabled to give Cap- 

 tain Lamson's own account of these oc- 

 currences, as well as other matters of in- 

 terest, from fragments of the log of the 

 " Belvidere," published in the " Columbian 

 Centinel" of June 26, 1822, the "Courier 

 de Louisiana" of May 20, 1822, and the 

 "Salem Gazette" of June 25, 1822. 



Extracts from log of brig "Belvidere," 

 Lamson, master: "May 2, we spoke the 

 United States schooner 'Alligator,' Cap- 



