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                  Privatiery Expedition
   Take a Prize

June 1. 1842. At 8 am. Tour boat coming down S R pass with an Ship & Suspicious Schooner - got under rough ^calvis & slyle oars? Shaye Sail theny? rather in the direction of Enemy's coast..? We even to Leeward of her. 2.30 mn. she hoisted her main Garf? - top sail: thus it was evidants she wished to slop from us - We had gained upon her by this time being sh? 3/4 miles to leeward. Wind shifting brought us into her wake & at 15 f 5 PM came up to her & spott? her - lents? boats aboard - she proved to be a vessel bound to Tobasco under auspicious circumstances - lashed ourselves along side of her - Commenced examination of papers - but upon manifests 'Corn' only appeared - but by presenting a ?litch of the Paul Ray considerath grantitis of what we thought proper to denominate "Munitions of War" sloped up - this added to considerable suspicious discrpancies on the part of the Captain (A Bayonese) The Saperenzo (Felice Fornento) & ? Spaniards or Mexicans - who by some strange trans may? - fecite or other - appeared to be the peculiar appelation bill of Henry Townsend & John Wilson - & moreover the ?isitation of a very useful appendage to a ship called the 'Doctor' & Cork - combined with the sd Pouder. Leads a probably other &c it was decided nem-cor? - after due deliberation that the Maria-Elizabeth should be inmnisisgents? & Galveston as Prize. Her Papers appeared that she belonged to a Mr. Power of N. York - but have an idea that Mr. Power is a Mexican