Nevertheless, on returning to the _Java_ the British flag was found waving from the stump mizzen-mast, and the _Constitution_ ranged up to give her another raking broadside. As the _Java_ was then entirely helpless the British flag was hauled down. [Illustration: The Battle Between the _Constitution_ and the _Java_.--II. (At half-past four o’clock, as the _Constitution_ began to make sail.) _From an engraving by Havel, after a sketch by Lieutenant Buchanan._] It was not until an actual inspection of the wreck had been made that the real state of affairs on the _Java_ could be realized by those on the _Constitution_. As Lieutenant Parker from the _Constitution_ climbed on board he saw her decks strewn with the dead and wounded, while the living were busy with the grewsome task of dropping the dead over the rail. Captain Lambert, “her able and gallant commander,” had been mortally wounded soon after three o’clock. The command had then devolved on Lieutenant Chads, and to him was due the credit of the obstinate struggle after the foremast fell. And he did it, too, in spite of the fact that he was severely wounded. Like the fierce Lieutenant David Hope of the _Macedonian_, he was anxious to fight even after his ship was reduced to a helpless hulk. He had striven with desperate energy to refit his ship with a jury-rig while the _Constitution_ was making repairs to her running rigging--had spread a sail to a part of the main-yard that was left in place and was working on a jury foremast when the _Constitution_ returned. But labor was vain. The cool precision of the Yankee gunners had literally cut the ship to pieces. Her masts were down and her hull was a sieve. [Illustration: The _Java_ Surrendering to the _Constitution_. _From an old wood-cut._] The conventional comparison of the forces and losses of the two ships cannot be made in any way better than by quoting Roosevelt’s “The Naval War of 1812.” He says: