about noon
We had fine weather . Wind at east south-east ; but after that it came on to blow from the north-west , and so continued without intermission during the whole of the passage to Bermuda . On the fourth morning after we left Nassau , we descried a sail in the south-east quarter , and immediately made sail in chase . We overhauled her about noon ; she hove-to , after being fired at repeatedly ; and , on boarding her , we found she was a Swede from Charleston , bound to Havre-de-Grace . All the letters we could find on board were very unceremoniously broken open , and nothing having transpired that could identify the cargo as enemy 's property , we were bundling over the side , when a nautical looking subject , who had attracted my attention from the first , put in his oar . `` Lieutenant , '' said he , `` will you allow me to put this barrel of New York apples into the boat as a present to Captain Deadeye , from Captain -- of the United States navy ? '' Mr Treenail bowed , and said he would ; and we shoved off and got on board again , and now there was the devil to pay , from the perplexity old Deadeye was thrown into , as to whether , here in the heat of the American war , he was bound to take this American captain prisoner or not .