Panama City pilot. (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.) 1907-19??, 1908-03-05
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mere we pulled to another place for
miles distant. The people saw our
boats coming, and they commenced
putting out their fires, and securing
their kettles.
We gave chase, and acting Master
DUBOIS, after a dead run of three
miles across aswamp and two creeks,
with eight or ten men, succeeded in
capturing five wagons, which he let
go after breaking the kettles that
were in them. At this place we de-
stroyed over forty furnaces and
sheds, besides pumps and kettles.
After this days work and pull of
thirty miles togather, our men re-
turned to their vessels, and, strange
to say, that although nearly all were
wet through as high as the waist all
day long, there had not been one
sick.
On the morning of the 26th at 3 a.
m. with force of the same number
OF men and boats, and with two
howltzers mounted, we quietly pulled
with muff1ed oars in another direc-
ton to the eastward. At day break
we landed at a place where there
were a number of salt-works in full
operation, and set fire to and destroy
ed the sheds and fire wood, and salt
pots and pans. There were thirty
altogether here, but many of the
kettles had been taken away. Three
miles beyond was another place
where we found extensive prepare
tons for making salt and the arrange
ments were complete in every way.
Here were large furnaces that had
never been used, and there were
brick kilns, and sheds for drying
brick, an excellent claying soil. All
their sheds and furnaces, &C., we de-
stroyed or rendered useless. Beyond
this place, thirteen miles distant, we
were informed was another large set
Element, called California inlet, where
there were said to be a thousand salt
makers, under the protection of
large body of cavalry.
AS our boats crew had already
pulled eighteen miles and had de-
stroyed a number of salt-works, and
were wet and some what tired, |
thought it not admirable to add
thirteen miles more to it; their con-
dition when they returned to their
vessels, after such a days work,
would have been anything but a
proper one. However, our days
work was not yet finished, for on our
way back we discovered that we had
passed in the dark three or four
small salt-works, which we visited
and destroyed.
On the 2Sth day of November we
dropped down to the entrance of st
Andrews bay and prepared for sea.
The wind came out from the south
ward and westward, with rain and
foggy weather, and with a heavy
swell on, and we were detained until
the 30th, when we saw strange sail
to the southwark. Got under way
and stood out toward it; but the
weather getting hazy, we lost sight
of her. Again visited the Salt-works
along the shores toward the east end
of Santa Rosa island, but could not
effect safe and dry landing to our
armed boats and crews, and returned
to the anchorage behind Hurricane
island, where my cOnsOrt the Bohio
lay. The following week we had
rains, fog, and southernly winds.
Our boats were employed visiting the
upper bays to watch for salt-makers.
On Saturday afternoon, the 9Th, the
wind came around to the north, and
the weather became clear and cold,
and the sea commenced going down.
On Monday the Sth, we took the
Bohio in tow and stood along the
coast toward Pensacola bay, landing
and destroying the salt-works be-
tween st Andrews and Santa Rosa
island as we came across them.
The works at Phillips inlet were not
as extensive as they had been repre-
sented to me. | found only a few,
and away inland, upon the shores OF
the bayou, which extends two or
three miles. l saw neither smoke
nor fires. At sunset | stood to the
southwark ten miles and cast off the
Bohio to proceed on her cruise; stood