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board, I shall assuredly encounter all the chances and risfa, knowing your anxiety and the great importance of keeping a sufficient number of vessels afloat.” The men were eager to go to sea. The information that the Iroquois was at Brest also watching them and the fact that there would be only three or four hours of darkness all combined to render the chance of escape—even if she got out, doubtful.
Later the. Flag Officer wrote to the Secretary, “The Rappahannock’s case is far from being an exception.” The loss of the Alabama did not help the spirit of the sailors._but they were still anxious to be out of the harbor of Calais.
The Secretary of the Navy wrote the Commanding Officer, “Circumscribed, watched, and opposed as we are, fighting as it were the (European world, we must surrender to expediency some of our views. If we cannot get whOtwe want, let us do the best we can. Du not. w# jfo^imtfurtiops^-da, the best you cad 4kader*%he arauif ■ stances."
Ships afloat were throwing over _ board their cotton to escape capture_Cotton that was to be used to buy clothing and provisions.
The Flag Officer S. Harron, in spite of many misunderstandings, never failed to believe that the French Government was friendly to the Confederacy. On December
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