Part 15 (2/2)

The Captain seeing me covered with blood, asked if I ounded, to which I replied, 'I believe not, sir'

”'Then,' said he, 'where are the priain and brought up the primers”

When Captain Porter had been forced lo surrender, the wounded ut volunteered his services to help the surgeons, and worked tirelessly, rolling bandages and waiting on the injured men, whose admiration he won by his devoted service; and so pleased was Captain Porter with his bravery throughout the whole battle, that he overn of the battle later said:

”I never earned Uncle Sam's money so faithfully”

All of the American prisoners of ere put on board an unarmed vessel, and ainst the English until they had been exchanged for an equal nu which promise the _Essex_ was allowed to sail for the United States When Farragut, the plucky little midshi+pman was taken on board the prison-shi+p, tears of mortification rolled down his cheeks

”Never mind, my little fellow,” said the Captain, ”perhaps it will be your turn next”

”I hope so,” was David's answer and his tears turned into a sht on board, and at once rushed to clailish sailors refused to allow that it was his, saying:

”You are a prisoner and your pig too”

”We always respect private property,” answered David, seizing hold of the sailors, and of Murphy, with unyielding deter

Now prisoners of war, the Captain and crew of the _Essex_ arrived in the harbour of New York on July 7th, 1814, and young Farragut, while waiting to be exchanged, went to Captain Porter's home at Chester, Pa, and while there was under the tuition of a Mr Neif, a quaint instructor who had been one of Napoleon's celebrated Guards He gave the boys in his care no lessons froht the walks with theut enjoyed

In the following Novee of prisoners, Farragut was free to return to the navy, but as a treaty of peace was lish, he did not have to serve against the latter again, and during the next two years hequartered the rest of the ti shi+p, or a vessel stationed at the navy yards, where recruits are received into the service

But in the Spring of 1816, he went on a cruise which proved ton_, a beautiful new shi+p carrying seventy-four guns, which was to take the A for the cruise, the President of the United States, Ja his suite was Captain Porter, then a naval coood-bye to the boy whoood-bye, but full too of the desire for change and adventure, and the new trip was a great experience for hiton_ cruised all suave Farragut an opportunity to study geography in the finest way possible The great volcano Vesuvius was in eruption when he visited it, which was an experience he never forgot, and another of a very different kind hen the King of Naples and the Eton_ and were entertained with great display and elegance After stopping at the coast towns of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers, the _Washi+ngton_ finally put up for the winter in a Spanish harbour, and then, as during the entire cruise, the boys were taught by the shi+p's chaplain, Mr Folsom, as so devoted to David that when in the fall of 1817 he was appointed consul to Tunis, he wrote to the Captain of the _Washi+ngton_ asking permission to take the boy with him, because, he said to the commodore ”he is entirely destitute of the aids of fortune and the influence of friends, other than those whoranted

Farragut spent nine delightful and valuable ave the boy every opportunity, not only for study, but to gain such polish and worldly experience as he would need in later life and David eagerly profited by every advantage given hiht sturdy boy, invited hiut was now sixteen years old, and it was at that time that the first real hardshi+p of his life came to him, when as the result of a sunstroke, his eyes eakened, and never entirely recovered

Soon it was tiain, and Mr Folsoed to part fro and their paths in life parted, although forty years later, when Farragut had become a famous Admiral he sent a token of respect and love to Mr Folsootten his old friend

When Farragut was eighteen years old, he was called to America to take his examination for a lieutenancy, which he took and passed successfully, but as there was no vacancy just then in the navy, he was obliged to wait, and although he spent the tilad indeed when the chance cah sailor, and the love of the sea ran hot in his veins

For years both the Aainst bands of pirates who infested the coast of the West Indies These robbers had small fast shi+ps, and would attack unarmed merchantmen, seize all the valuables they could carry away or destroy, and sometimes kill the crew or put theland had been declared, Captain Porter had been a coes, but now he offered to resign this position and atteovernive him a fleet of small vessels which could follow the pirates into their retreats

The governave hiht eight small schooners, sie row-boats or barges, which were called the ”ned to one of the vessels na encounters with the pirates At one time when off the Southern coast of Cuba, soame, were fired on by the pirates, and returned this fire without effect, then went back to their shi+p Farragut was ordered to take a party of men to capture the pirates, and at three o'clock the nexton the island, had no easy time to find the pirate ca vines, thorny bushes and cactus plants and in such intense heat that some of the men fainted from exhaustion They found the ca vessels had been seen, and the pirates were gone The sailors at once searched their camp, which was protected by several cannon, and there they found so, and also an ioods taken from plundered vessels

The sailors burned the houses, and carried off the plunder and the cannon to their boats, while David carried away ato their boats, they heard a great noise behind theht surely that the pirates had cout stood still and ht bravely and to stand their ground like ine their surprise and amusement when they found their foes were not pirates, but thousands of land-crabs scurrying through the briars!

This was only one of the incidents that young Farragut had while on his first cruise as acting lieutenant During the entire cruise to the West Indies, the American sailors sufferedto the voyage in after days, Farragut said:

”I never owned a bed during my cruise in the West Indies, but laid me down to rest wherever I found the most comfortable berth”