A Condemned Indiaman, Ill-shaped and Rotten, Fitted as a Man-o’-war--A Disheartening Cruise with Incapable and Mutinous Associates--Attempt to Take Leith, and the Scotch Parson’s Prayer--Meeting the _Serapis_--When John Paul Jones had “not yet Begun to Fight”; when he had “Got her now”; when he would not “Surrender to a Drop of Water”--Ready Wit of Richard Dale--Work of a Bright Marine--A Battle Won by Sheer Pluck and Persistence. CHAPTER X. AFTER THE _SERAPIS_ SURRENDERED 260 Richard Dale too Bright for the British Lieutenant--A Fair Estimate of Captain Pearson of the _Serapis_--The Treachery of Landais--Remarkable Escape from Texel--Honors for the Victor--“The Fame of the Brave Outlives him; his Portion is Immortality.” CHAPTER XI. THE YEAR 1779 IN AMERICAN WATERS 280 Lucky Raids of British Transports and Merchantmen--Disastrous Expedition to the Penobscot--The _Trumbull’s_ Good Fight with the _Watt_--The First Yankee Line-of-battle-ship--When Nicholson, with a Wrecked Ship and Fifty Men, Fought for an Hour against Two Frigates, each of which was Superior to the Yankee Ship--Captain Barry’s Exasperating Predicament in a Calm--The Last Naval Battle of the Revolution. CHAPTER XII. BUILDING A NEW NAVY 303 When England, in her Efforts to Wrest Commerce from the Americans, Incited the Pirates of Africa to Activity, she Compelled the Building of the Fleet that was, in the End, to Bring her Humility of which she had never Dreamed--Deeds of the Barbary Corsairs--American Naval Policy as Laid down by Joshua Humphreys--The Wonderful New Frigates--Troubles with the French Cruisers on the American Coasts--Trick of a Yankee Captain to Save a Ship--A Midshipman who Died at his Post--Capture of the _Insurgent_--A Long Watch over the French Prisoners--Escape of a Twice-beaten Ship--The Valiant Senez--Story of Isaac Hull and the Lucky _Enterprise_. CHAPTER XIII. WAR WITH BARBARY PIRATES 333 A Squadron under Richard Dale Sent to the Mediterranean--The Dey of Algiers became Friendly, but the Bashaw of Tripoli Showed Fight--Fierce Battle between the Schooner _Enterprise_ and the Treacherous Crew of the Polacre _Tripoli_--Slaughter of the Pirates--Tripoli Blockaded--Grounding and Loss of the _Philadelphia_. CHAPTER XIV. DECATUR AND THE _PHILADELPHIA_ 345 Story of the Brave Men who Disguised a Ketch as a Merchantman and Sailed into the Harbor of Tripoli by Night, Drew up alongside the Captured _Philadelphia_, and then, to the Order “Boarders Away!” Climbed over the Rail and through the Ports, and with Cutlass and Pike Drove the Pirates into the Sea or to a Worse Fate--“The most Bold and Daring Act of the Age.” CHAPTER XV. HAND-TO-HAND WITH THE PIRATES 359