We have only the account of the favorite British naval history from which to obtain the number of the crew of the _Avon_ and her losses. He puts it at “one hundred and four men and thirteen boys.” He says she lost ten killed and thirty-two wounded. It is worth while giving James’s opinion of the matter. He says: “The gallantry of the _Avon’s_ officers and crew cannot for a moment be questioned; but the gunnery of the latter appears to have been not one whit better than, to the discredit of the British navy, had frequently before been displayed in combats of this kind. Nor, judging from the specimen given by the _Castilian_, is it likely that she would have performed any better.” Roosevelt figures that the _Wasp_ used twelve guns firing 327 pounds of metal to the _Avon’s_ eleven throwing 280 pounds. The crews are set down at 160 to 117 and the relative force at fourteen to eleven in favor of the Yankees, the loss of men being as forty-two to three. Then he adds: “It is self-evident that in the case of this action the odds, fourteen to eleven, are neither enough to account for the loss inflicted, being as fourteen to one, nor for the rapidity with which, during a night encounter, the _Avon_ was placed in a sinking condition.” After the night battle the _Wasp_ ran with a free sheet and a favoring current away to the south and west. A merchantman was captured on the 12th, and another on the 14th. On the 21st she took the _Atalanta_, of eight guns, that had been a Baltimore privateer named _Siro_--“a beautiful brig of two hundred and fifty-three tons, coppered to the bends and copper fastened, and has a very valuable cargo on board, consisting of brandy, wines, cambrics, etc.” So wrote one of the _Wasp’s_ officers. The _Atalanta_ was manned and placed under the command of Midshipman David Geisinger. All the crew wrote letters to their friends, and Captain Blakeley sent in her his official report of the battle with the _Avon_. Then the _Atalanta_ sailed for home, reaching Savannah on November 4, 1814, and the letters she carried were the last ever received from any member of the crew of the _Wasp_. Yet a brief glimpse of her subsequent career was found in the log of the Swedish bark _Adonis_. As the reader will recall, the gallant crew of the _Essex_ had for the most part arrived in New York under parole on the _Essex Junior_. There were two, however, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur McKnight and Master’s-Mate Lyman, who were landed at Rio Janeiro by the _Phœbe_, and these started for home on the Swedish bark _Adonis_, but they did not arrive, and when the time of their absence grew long, their friends made inquiry. The _Adonis_ had arrived, though without publicly reporting anything about her passengers, but when her log was searched the following entry was found: