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Two hours afterward Barbicane received information too exact to leave room for the smallest remaining doubt . `` The steamer Atlanta from Liverpool put to sea on the 2nd of October , bound for Tampa Town , having on board a Frenchman borne on the list of passengers by the name of Michel Ardan . '' That very evening he wrote to the house of Breadwill and Co. , requesting them to suspend the casting of the projectile until the receipt of further orders . On the 10th of October , at nine A.M. , the semaphores of the Bahama Canal signaled a thick smoke on the horizon . Two hours later a large steamer exchanged signals with them . the name of the Atlanta flew at once over Tampa Town . At four o'clock the English vessel entered the Bay of Espiritu Santo .