NASSAU AND BLOCKADE RUNNING. 243 
The following table from Gov. Rawson’s report exhibits the 
number of vessels which arrived from and departed for the south- 
ern states at Nassau, from 1862 to 1865: 
Arrived from Southern States. | Departed foc Southern States. 
Years. peur eet 
Steamers. ee si aiae. a ine 
1861 2 2 3 1 
1862 32 74 46 109 
1863 113 27 173 48 
1864 105 6 165 2 
1865 35 _ 41 _— 
Total, 287 109 F 428 160 
287 - 109 
Excess of Departures, 141 51 
Of these, forty-two steamers are known to have been captured, 
and twenty-two to have been wrecked, chiefly off the ports of 
Charleston and Wilmington. Thirty-two were confederate ves- 
sels. Of the twenty-three steamers which remaincd in the harbor 
of Nassau, or arrived in it after the Southern ports were taken, 
twelve cleared for England, four for Halifax, two for Bermuda, 
three for Havana, one for St. Thomas, and one for Matamoras. 
During the whole period, 1861-1865, 164 steamers, connected 
with the trade of the Southern States, entered the port of Nassau. 
Of these, 108 brought carzocs from the coast. ifty-six-are re- 
corded as having left the port of Nassau, but do not figure among 
the arrivals from the coast. Fifty-one steamers made but one 
voyage each, and twenty-three two voyages cach. Two steamers 
made ten trips, and the Syren eighteen. On her nineteenth 
voyage she was captured, 
