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66 enthusiasm in Mexico. Money was freely subscribed to build another vessel, to be also called the Guerrero.

Notwithstanding this misfortune, the Bravo and Hermon continued their cruise for some time; and it is asserted that the latter captured an armed schooner.

Privateers were fitted out to prey upon Spanish commerce, and schemes to prosecute this kind of warfare were contemplated as late as 1831. Nothing was effected, however. In 1825 the remnant of the Spanish navy in the Pacific Ocean fell into the possession of Mexico. The ship of the line Asia and the brig Constante escaped from Callao when that place was surrendered to the patriot forces of Colombia. On their way to Manila the crews mutinied, landed their chief officers in the Marianas Islands, and then brought the vessels to Monterey in California, already under the republican flag, where they were given up to Governor Luis Antonio Argüello.