Both Captain Blythe and Captain Burrows were buried in Portland with the highest honors known on such occasions. Certainly, the gallant efforts of the British captain deserved all the honors that could be paid. A gold medal was voted by Congress to the nearest male relative of the dead American captain, and it is very likely still cherished as an heirloom in some South Carolina household, for Burrows was a native of that State. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Burrows, previously of the American Marine Corps. He was but twenty-seven years of age when killed. [Illustration: Medal Awarded to Edward R. McCall After the Battle Between the _Enterprise_ and the _Boxer_.] After the battle, Master-Commandant James Renshaw was appointed to command the _Enterprise_. In company with the brig _Rattlesnake_ she cruised off the southern coast of the nation, where she proved so slow that the _Rattlesnake_, although not a fast vessel, was often compelled to sail under top-sails only, while the _Enterprise_ carried full sail. And yet on several occasions the _Enterprise_ escaped from British frigates, and did so once though chased for seventy hours. If anything had been needed to confirm the old sailormen in their belief in the luck of the _Enterprise_ this prolonged race would have done it. When the frigate appeared and gave chase the two Yankees separated, and the frigate chose to follow the _Enterprise_. During the three days that the frigate thereafter followed the ill-sparred American, the wind proved exceedingly variable and baffling, but it was without exception baffling in each change for the British ship. Time and again she almost overhauled the little _Enterprise_, but on each occasion the Yankee was favored by a shift of wind, or a calm where the row-boats could tow her, and at the last she got a breeze that placed her a long way fair to windward of the enemy, and before the frigate’s flapping sails were filled with it the _Enterprise_ beat fairly out of sight and escaped altogether. It is certain that she was handled with consummate skill, just as Hull handled the _Constitution_, but then the _Constitution_ was lucky, too. The _Rattlesnake_ was lucky for a time after separating from the _Enterprise_ on this occasion, but was captured by the British frigate _Leander_ later in the war. The _Enterprise_, having reached Charleston in safety, was there employed as harbor guard until the end of the war. So it happened that in spite of the risks taken by the bravest of sea-commanders during four different wars (she was in the second Mediterranean war), this the luckiest of ships known to the American register, perished at last in an honored old age, worn out in the service of the nation. CHAPTER XVIII GUN-BOATS NOT WHOLLY WORTHLESS