Captures of the Alabama

"Having doubled the island of Ceylon and hauled up on the coast of Malabar, we captured on the 14th of January the Emma Jane of Bath, Maine, from Bombay bound to Amherst. Having removed from her such articles of provisions as we required and transferred her crew to the Alabama, we burned her. She was in ballast, seeking a cargo, and there was, therefore, no claim of neutral property. The master had his wife on board. Being not a great distance from the land, we ran in for the purpose of discharging our prisoners; and descried the Ghaut Mountains the next day."

Source: Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat during the War between the States.