Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841 - Page 10
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week. The Packet (the Crone) came out, passed within
one hundred yards of us, and brought nothing; hailed
the San-Antonio and ordered Lieut Moore to keep
to the North of the Point, and stop all Mexican
vessels that he could[.] Ran down under the Island
of Sacrificias and sent the letter from the Dept
of State on board Her Brittanic Majesty’s Brig
Sappho which vessel was still there together with
a letter from the Comdr of H.B.M Brig Racer which
he wrote on board this vessel while off Tampico,
and proceeded immediately for the mouth of the
Rio-del-Norte, in consequence of news having just
reached Tampico of the advance of General Canales
on Matamoras at the head of two thousand troops,
seven hundred of whom he informed me were
Texians[.] [T]his news may have been the cause of
their firing at our Boat, as it was done the next
day[.] I sent in by the Boat a letter to Captain Fraser,
and one to Mr Treat, accompanying are copies marked
N and O. Capt. F. had not time to write a reply,
but sent a message that he would forward the
letter with pleasure[.] [T]he Boat returned by three o’clock
and as there was every appearance of a Norther it was
necessary to carry sail heavily to get to windward of
the shoals before it struck us, which I am pleased
to say the Ship did well! and as I have now found
her sailing time, she worked to windward and beha-
ved as well under a heavy press of Canvass [sic] as any
man could possibly wish a vessel to do. At dark
the inhuman wretches lit only the lower tier of
Lanterns in the Light House to deceive me in the
distance so that the Ship might be lost on the
Reefs forming the Harbour, which they knew we
had to stand in for again, in consequence of Reefs
and Shoals that were to the S, S of E, and Eastward
of
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Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841. Texas Navy Papers, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.