Here, as in the other place, the infantry had urgent business behind the forest woods and hills. After making certain they had gone to stay, the _Dupont_ resumed patrol duty. Cavalry afterward appeared at Fortina, but remained there only long enough to see the torpedo-boat’s menacing attitude. _May 6._ The cruiser _Montgomery_, Captain Converse, was the first ship of the American squadron to acquire the distinction of capturing two prizes in one day, which she did on the sixth. The captives were the _Frasquito_ and the _Lorenzo_, both small vessels of no great value as compared with the big steamers taken during the first days of the war. The _Montgomery_ was cruising about fifty miles off Havana when the _Frasquito_, a two-master, came bowling along toward the Cuban capital. When the yellow flag of the enemy was sighted the helm was swung in her direction, and a blank shot was put across her bow. The Spaniard hove to and the customary prize-crew was put on board. It was found that the _Frasquito_ was bound from Montevideo to Havana with a cargo of jerked beef. She was of about 140 tons register and hailed from Barcelona. The prize-crew took her to Havana waters, and the _Annapolis_ assigned the cutter _Hamilton_ to carry her into Key West. A few minutes afterwards the _Montgomery_ encountered the _Lorenzo_, a Spanish bark, bound from Barcelona to Havana with a cargo of dried beef. She was taken just as easily, and Ensign Osborn, with several “Jackies,” sailed her into port. _May 7._ Quite a sharp little affair occurred off Havana, in which the _Vicksburg_ and the cutter _Morrill_ were very nearly enticed to destruction. A small schooner was sent out from Havana harbour shortly before daylight to draw some of the Americans into an ambuscade. She ran off to the eastward, hugging the shore with the wind on her starboard quarter. About three miles east of the entrance of the harbour she came over on the port tack. A light haze fringed the horizon, and she was not discovered until three miles off shore, when the _Mayflower_ made her out and signalled the _Vicksburg_ and _Morrill_. Captain Smith of the _Vicksburg_ immediately clapped on all steam and started in pursuit. The schooner instantly put about and ran for Morro Castle before the wind. On doing so, she would, according to the plot, lead the two American war-ships directly under the guns of the Santa Clara batteries. These works are a short mile west of Morro, and are a part of the defences of the harbour. There were two batteries, one at the shore, which had been recently thrown up, of sand and mortar, with wide embrasures for 8-inch guns, and the other on the crest of the rocky eminence which juts out into the waters of the gulf at the point. The upper battery mounted modern 10 and 12-inch Krupp guns, behind a six-foot stone parapet, in front of which were twenty feet of earthwork and belting of railroad iron.