COMMODORE PERRY MEETING THE IMPERIAL COMMISSIONERS AT YOKOHAMA. (From a lithograph in Perry’s “Narrative”), 459 JAPANESE WRESTLERS AT YOKOHAMA. (From a lithograph in Perry’s “Narrative”), 461 COMMODORE’S PENNANT, 1812–1860. (From a pennant at the Naval Institute, Annapolis), 464 THE UNITED STATES BRIG _PORPOISE_ IN A SQUALL. (From a picture drawn and engraved by W. J. Bennett, in 1844), 465 THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE _HUDSON_ RETURNING FROM A CRUISE, WITH A FAIR WIND. (From a picture drawn and engraved by W. J. Bennett), 467 THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY CHAPTER I WHEN PORTER SWEPT THE PACIFIC THE STORY OF THE SECOND CRUISE OF THE FAMOUS LITTLE FRIGATE _ESSEX_--AROUND CAPE HORN AND ALONE IN THE BROAD SOUTH SEA--CAPTURE OF A PERUVIAN PICAROON--DISGUISING THE _ESSEX_--THE BRITISH WHALING FLEET TAKEN BY SURPRISE--AN ARMED WHALER TRANSFORMED INTO A YANKEE CRUISER--THE SAILORMAN’S PARADISE AMONG THE NUKAHIVA GROUP--WHEN FARRAGUT WAS A MIDSHIPMAN--AN INCIPIENT MUTINY AMONG THE SAILORS WHO WANTED TO REMAIN AMONG THE ISLANDS--FARRAGUT AS A CAPTAIN AT TWELVE. Of great renown in the annals of the American Navy is the name of Porter, for the deeds of Captain David Porter with the little frigate _Essex_ fill a large space in the story of the War of 1812; while those of David D. Porter, the son of Captain David Porter, during the Civil War, of which the story will be told farther on, raised him to the highest rank.