16.40 N., long.

58.16 W.
_Thursday, October 31st_ .-- Beautiful clear weather, with a light breeze from the North and East.

Got up and sunned the ball cartridges, some of which had been damaged by the damp, and overhauled the pumps which had gotten out of order.

At 2 A.M.a light having been reported to me, I ordered steam gotten up and made pursuit.

As we came up with it, we found it to be a burning fragment of the schooner which we had fired eighteen hours before.