This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... of all descriptions, felucca, trutto, and mistico, were overhauled and seized; and at one time we had more than one hundred prisoners on board our ship. Some idea of the activity of our operations may be formed, when I state that, after capturing a large boat off Garabusa, to leeward of the harbor, wo immediately went in chase of a brig making to windward. She was soon overhauled, and proved to be a fine vessel of one hundred and eighty tons. The brig was hardly disposed of, when a suspicious looking croft was seen coming round the west end of Candia; we immediately pursued it, but, getting becalmed while the other vessel was favored with a breeze, we lost her. That night, off Cape Spada, another suspicious sail hove in sight, which we chased all night and a part of the next day...

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