Crossword-Solution: GATTE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The third year out, we had a long cruise off Cape de Gatte, keeping the ship under her canvass quite three months.

Our cruise off Cape de Gatte was one of the last things we did; and when we came back to Mahon, we took in supplies for America.

The late Admiralty thought I kept too many to the eastward of Sicily; the Smyrna folks complain of me, so do the Adriatic, so they do between Cape de Gatte and Gibraltar.

The _Facezie_, of Arlotto, printed soon after the author's death in 1483, contain a tale of a merchant of Genoa, entitled "Novella delle Gatte," and probably from this the story came to England, although it is also found in a German chronicle of the thirteenth century.

The _Harpy_ was soon under way, and made all sail, steering for Cape de Gatte, where Captain Wilson hoped to pick up a Spanish vessel or two, on his way to Toulon to receive the orders of the admiral.