_ — = a A A Mh RIMES a Be 462 Chronicles of the Cape Fear River — his fellow. This person was the watchman, and it sal : e carried ashore a large amount of money. He was - 8 eats but there was no proof. He still lives on , but the cause of poor Dyer’s death wil be —— until the Great Assize. : Lap. at —— of dash and daring on the part of noted Cape Fear ick de Pees 2 = this phase of their history could be multi- = imited scope of this paper would ; it of thei narration—instances so thrillin it still ssipe ti ome g¢ that it still stirs ’s bl to recall them after an interval : "aptacina son of fifty years. I shall, h owever = a memory and from published accounts of others: vhom remember as participants, only a few exploits of the on which might be recorded, and, finally, some illustrations t = closing scenes when the false lights of the conquerors of : ort Fisher decoyed the unwary into the snare of the fowler or astened the retreat of the few that escaped to a neutral port. A Cross Catt. The following interestin ich 1 g narrative, which is true in all it anne was told to the writer by the late George C. McDougal. ~ ors N. C., who by a clever expedient kept out of ort Lafayette, and made some forty voyages as chief engineer in the little steamer Si , released : r Seren before his former shipmates were “The well-known blockade-runni ing steamer Margaret J — left Nassau heavily laden for Wilmington, ad tel good run across to the North Carolina coast. About 12 merid- ian she was in the latitude of New Inlet, and she ran on th oe =f pet se 3 ig until sundown, when =o each and made land to the northward o aries a of the Cape Fear. While tracking pain me ae aha e cruisers sighted us and sent up rockets, which ape n ee on = — epeenarer of the distance e line o got the lights in range at the inlet peepee