She was a Long Time Idle in Port--A Touching Tale of Sentiment--Away at Last--Captain Stewart’s Presentiment--Found Two of the Enemy as he had Predicted--A Battle where the Yankee Showed Mastery of the Seaman’s Art--Captain Stewart Settled a Dispute--Caught Napping in Porto Praya--Swift Work Getting to Sea--A Most Remarkable Chase--Three British Frigates in Chase of Two Yankee Chose to Follow the Smaller when the Two Split Tacks--Astounding Exhibit of Bad Marksmanship--A Cause of Suicide--The Poem that Saved _Old Ironsides_. CHAPTER XII. IN THE WASTES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC 270 The Story of a Battle--The _Hornet_ and the _Penguin_ in the Shadows of Tristan d’Acunha--As Fair a Match as is Known to Naval Annals--It Took the Yankees Ten Minutes to Dismantle the Enemy and Five more to Riddle his Hull--The British Captain’s Forceful Description of the Yankee Fire--A Marvellous Escape from a Liner--The _Peacock_ in the Straits of Sunda--When the Lonely Situation of this Sloop is Considered did Warrington Show a Lack of Humanity?--If he Did, What did the British Captain Bartholomew Show? CHAPTER XIII. IN BRITISH PRISONS 288 A Typical Story of the Life of an American Seaman who was Impressed in 1810 and Allowed to Become a Prisoner when War was Declared--Luck in Escaping a Flogging--Letters to his Father Destroyed--British Regard for the Man’s Rights when the American Government Took up the Case--A Narragansett Indian Impressed--To Dartmoor Prison--Mustered Naked Men in the Snows of Winter and Kept them in Rooms where Buckets of Water Froze Solid--Murder of Prisoners Six Weeks After it was Officially Known that the Treaty of Peace had been Ratified--Notable Self-restraint of the Americans--Smoothed Over with a Disavowal. CHAPTER XIV. STORIES OF THE DUELLISTS 305 Traditions of Personal Combats that Illustrate, in a Way, a Part of the Life Led by the Old Time Naval Officers--When an Englishman did not Get “a Yankee for Breakfast”--They were Offended by the Names of the Yankee Ships--Somers was Able to Prove that he was not Devoid of Courage--The Fate of Decatur, the Most Famous of the Navy’s Duellists. CHAPTER XV. AMONG THE WEST INDIA PIRATES 324 A Breed of Cowardly Cutthroats Legitimately Descended from the Licensed Privateers and Nourished under the Peculiar Conditions of Climate, Geography, and Governmental Anarchy Prevailing Around and in the Caribbean Sea--Commodore Perry Loses his Life Because of them--William Howard Allen Killed--Pirate Caves with the Bones of Dead in them--Porto Rico Treachery--The Unfortunate Foxardo Affair--Making the Coasts of Sumatra and Africa Safe for American Traders. CHAPTER XVI. DECATUR AND THE BARBARY PIRATES 339