you, Dear Jannie thinking you would like to know what we have bean (been) doing for the last two weeks I will now give you a detail of our proceedings, Well we left Pensacola on the 14th of this month, for this place, we arrived here on the 16th the object of this Expedition was to destroy Salt-Pans, which the Rebels have to make Salt in, Since we have bean (been) laying here we have fit out Some four or five Small Boat Expeditions, which has proven very successful, we have destroyed more Salt Pans than all the other Expeditions put together the Salt Pans that I Speak of are generally Situated in Small Creeks and Swamps, we cannot get to them in the Steamer, therefor we have to go in Small Boats, the Manner in which those Expeditions are arranged are that we would leave the Ship about four O’clock in the Morning, and proceed up the Bay until we would discover Smoke, for that is the only way that those pans can be found by a Stranger as soon as we could get near enough we would the then fire at them
