The _Wasp’s_ crew brought on board all their blankets, and the American surgeon’s mate was soon busy attending to the wounded. With great difficulty the two vessels were separated, for the _Frolic_ had locked her antagonist, as it were, in a dying embrace; and no sooner were they clear than both of the prize’s masts fell (one bringing down the other), covering the dead and wounded, and hampering all the efforts of Lieutenant Biddle and his crew to clear the decks. All this time three great white topsails had been pushing up above the horizon, and soon it was made out that a large ship of some kind was bearing down, carrying all the canvas she safely could in the sharp blow. Jones, thinking that it might be one of the convoy returning to seek the _Frolic_, called his tired crew to quarters, instructing Lieutenant Biddle to fit a jury rig and to make with his charge for some Southern port. It was not to be, however, and the gallant victory was to have a different termination. The lookout on the foremast called down something that changed the complexion of matters entirely. “A seventy-four carrying the English flag!” he shouted. That was all. The men at the _Wasp’s_ guns put out their matches. There was nothing to do but wait and be taken. Any resistance would be worse than foolish. As the great battle-ship came bowling along she passed so close that the faces could be seen looking through her three tiers of great open ports. She disdained to hail, fired one gun over the little _Wasp_, and swept on. Captain Jones hauled down his flag, and read the word _Poictiers_ under the Britisher’s galleries. In a minute or two the latter retook the _Frolic_, and, lowering her boats, placed prize crews on board both her and the Yankee sloop. After some repairing, she set sail and carried her captives to Bermuda. As in all the separate engagements of the time, comparisons were made between the armaments and crews of the fighters, and the press of Great Britain and America began the customary argument. Probably the _Wasp_ had a few more men, but to quote: