The _Argus_ was at once taken by a prize-crew to Plymouth. Captain Allen had had his leg amputated by his own surgeon when carried below. On arrival at Plymouth, he was taken to the Mill Prison hospital, where he died on August 18th. He was buried on August 21st, with the highest military honors, because in his treatment of both the passengers and the crews of all the ships he had captured, he had shown that he was a typical American gentleman. His name was given to a street in New York City to remind the wayfarer of his deeds. CHAPTER XVII THE LUCK OF A YANKEE CRUISER THERE WAS NEVER A MORE FORTUNATE VESSEL THAN THE CLIPPER-SCHOONER _ENTERPRISE_--AS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED SHE WAS THE SWIFTEST AND BEST ALL-AROUND NAVAL SHIP OF HER CLASS AFLOAT--MEN SHE MADE FAMOUS IN THE WEST INDIES--A GLORIOUS CAREER IN THE WAR WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN PIRATES--EVEN WHEN THE WISDOM OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT CHANGED HER TO A BRIG AND OVERLOADED HER WITH GUNS SO THAT SHE “COULDN’T GET OUT OF HER OWN WAY,” HER LUCK DID NOT FAIL HER--HER FIGHT WITH THE _BOXER_--EVEN A GOOD FRIGATE COULD NOT CATCH HER. If the reader would like to learn the story of the luckiest American naval ship let him look up the details of the career of the little cruiser _Enterprise_, for of all the vessels that have carried the gridiron flag on the salt seas, or on any other seas, not one has had the credit of as many victories as she. Modelled with the finest lines known in the ship-yards of her day, she was launched in the year 1800, rigged as a schooner, armed with twelve six-pounders, and was then sent under Lieutenant John Shaw to the West Indies in search of the French privateers that were preying there on American commerce. In a brief time she had taken eight of these privateers. Among them were included _l’Agile_, a vessel of practically the same weight of metal and of almost an equal crew, whose captain was noted as the most daring of his kind in that region, and the _Flambeau_, a larger vessel mounting twelve nine-pounders to the _Enterprise’s_ twelve sixes, and carrying a crew of one hundred and ten to the _Enterprise’s_ eighty-three. And that this Frenchman was both brave and persistent is amply shown by the fact that he did not surrender until forty out of his one hundred and ten men had been killed and wounded, leaving but seventy able to fight. A year later she was in the Mediterranean under Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett, and on August 1st she fell in with the Tripolitan polacre _Tripoli_, a vessel of fourteen guns and eighty men. So stubborn was the resistance of this pirate that he would not surrender until twenty of his men had been killed and thirty wounded out of the crew of eighty. The _Enterprise_ did not lose a man. It was the _Enterprise_ that captured the ketch _Mastico_, rechristened the _Intrepid_, with which Decatur entered Tripoli Harbor and burned the _Philadelphia_. And so the story runs.