16.54 N., long.

57.59 W.The master of the prize schooner Trowbridge, having made a very humble apology for his conduct of yesterday, and asked to be released from confinement, I directed him to be discharged from close custody and to have his irons taken off.
The Daniel Trowbridge, however, was the last prize that fell to the Sumter's lot on this cruise.

She was now in the full track of vessels crossing the Line, and scarcely a day passed without one or more being overhauled; but the Stars and Stripes appeared to have vanished from the seas.

Vessel after vessel was brought-to, now English, now French, now belonging to some one or other of the innumerable neutral nations, but not a Yankee was to be seen, and the ship's company began almost to weary of their profitless task.
One brief morning's excitement there was, as a large steamer was descried in the offing, evidently a man-of-war.

All was at once alive and eager on board the little Sumter.