Suddenly it was noticed that the enemy was not replying, although the colors were still flying at the mast-heads. [Illustration: THE “ENTERPRISE” HULLING THE “BOXER”] McCall gave orders to cease firing, and then through the smoke came a hoarse voice hailing the American brig. “Cease firing there!” it said. “We have surrendered.” “Why don’t you haul down your colors?” returned McCall through the trumpet. “We can’t, sir. They are nailed to the mast,” was the reply. A boat was lowered from the _Enterprise_, and McCall climbed to the deck of his late antagonist. She proved to be His Britannic Majesty’s brig _Boxer_, 14 guns, that a few minutes before had been commanded by Samuel Blyth, a brave officer, who burned to distinguish himself, and had gone into action determined to follow the example of Sir Philip Vere Broke, and lead “a captured Yankee into Halifax Harbor”--so he had expressed himself. But he had not lived to see the outcome of the action. At the same time that Burrows fell on board the _Enterprise_, Blyth was killed by a cannon-shot on the quarter-deck of the _Boxer_. His first officer came back with Lieutenant McCall, and approached the wounded Burrows, who yet refused to be carried below. The doctor had pronounced that he had but a few hours at most to live. When he received the sword of his enemy, he grasped it in both hands. “I am satisfied,” he said; and soon afterwards he was covered with the flag below in his own cabin--“a smile on his lips,” wrote one of the officers. As usual, much controversy was excited in regard to the numbers of crew and armament of the two vessels. An extract from a letter from Commodore Hull to Commodore Bainbridge, dated September 10th, 1813, is of great interest. Hull writes: “I yesterday visited the two brigs, and was astonished to see the difference of injury sustained in the action. The _Enterprise_ has but one eighteen-pound shot in her hull, one in her main-mast, and one in her foremast; her sails are much cut with grape-shot, but no injury was done by them. “The _Boxer_ has eighteen or twenty eighteen-pound shot in her hull, most of them at the water’s edge; several stands of grape-shot in her side, and such a quantity of smaller grape that I didn’t undertake to count them. Her masts, sails, and spars are literally cut to pieces; several of her guns dismounted and unfit for service. To give an idea, I inform you that I counted in her main-mast alone three eighteen-pound shot-holes. “I find it impossible to get at the number killed, as no papers are found by which we can ascertain it. I, however, counted upwards of ninety hammocks that were in her nettings, besides several beds without hammocks. I have no doubt that she carried one hundred men on board.” The exact number on board the _Enterprise_ was one hundred and two.