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The plan was considered at length , and finally the colonel assented to it , and wrote the instructions for Cornwood . He hastened on shore . It rained very hard all the rest of the day and all night , and it continued to blow heavily until the next morning . It was not till noon that the ocean looked quiet enough to induce us to take ladies to sea again , after the experience of the day before . We had lost twenty-four hours , and if the Islander had not put in at some inlet , or made a lee under Cape Canaveral , was half way to Key West . It was useless to think of overtaking her on the passage , unless she had spent a day in Mosquito Inlet . Colonel Shepard 's letter was addressed to Captain Blastblow , though it was an open one , directing him to await the arrival of the Sylvania at Key West .