Until 1821 nothing more of consequence appears to have been done to suppress the pirates. In this year the famous sloop-of-war _Hornet_, Captain Robert Henley; the famous brig _Enterprise_, Captain Lawrence Kearny; the brig _Spark_ and the schooners _Porpoise_ and _Grampus_, with three gun-boats, were sent down. It was as if eight policemen had been assigned to enforce the laws and preserve order in the whole of the Greater New York. However, the force went to work in earnest, and soon proved that the pirates were cowards in the face of naval authorities. On October 16, 1821, four pirate schooners and a sloop were found plundering three American merchantmen near Cape Antonio. Captain Kearny of the _Enterprise_ sent five row-boats with his men after the pirates, who fired two of their schooners and tried to escape in the other three vessels. The three vessels were taken, however, with forty of the pirates, who were sent to Charleston. A month later a pirate resort on shore was destroyed near the same point, and in December another schooner was captured, although its crew escaped ashore. On March 6, 1822, the _Enterprise_ captured four pirate barges and three launches with one hundred and sixty men. The _Enterprise_ was still a lucky ship. Meantime the _Hornet_ and the _Porpoise_ had done almost as well. In 1822 Commodore James Biddle came down in the _Macedonian_ with a large addition to the fleet. The _Shark_, under Captain Matthew Calbraith Perry, captured five pirate vessels and helped in the capture of the _Bandara de Sangare_, a piratical vessel very well known in that day, while the _Grampus_ took the _Pandrita_, a vessel of superior force to herself, and as well known as the _Sangare_. On October 16th the _Grampus_ captured a brigantine that was flying Spanish colors, which proved to be the Porto Rico privateer _Palmira_. But the _Palmira_ had recently plundered the American schooner _Coquette_. She was one of the commissioned vessels that plundered indiscriminately. Nevertheless the Porto Rico authorities took revenge the next year, as will appear further on. The _Palmira_ carried a long eighteen and eight short ones--she was a formidable craft of her kind. [Illustration: Lashing up Hammocks. _Front the “Kedge Anchor.”_]