On her next cruise to the gulf, she again found good hunting in the waters off the Texas coast. At 8:10 on the morning of October 2, 1863, Bermuda fired a gun across a schooner's bow, prompting her to heave to about six miles off Matagorda. The vessel proved to be the English Florie, purportedly bound from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Matamoras. Her master "...pretended that he did not know his position and thought he was 80 miles from land." Smith took the schooner and sent her to New Orleans under a prize crew for adjudication. The main items in her assorted cargo were medicine, wine, and saddles much needed by the Confederate cavalry.
