MAN-OF-WAR TROPHIES.
When the second cutter pulled about among the ships, dropping the
surgeons aboard the American men-of-war here and there--as a
pilot-boat distributes her pilots at the mouth of the harbour--
she passed several foreign frigates, two of which, an Englishman
and a Frenchman, had excited not a little remark on board the
Neversink. These vessels often loosed their sails and exercised
yards simultaneously with ourselves, as if desirous of comparing
the respective efficiency of the crews.
When we were nearly ready for sea, the English frigate, weighing
her anchor, made all sail with the sea-breeze, and began showing
off her paces by gliding about among all the men-of-war in
harbour, and particularly by running down under the Neversink's
stern. Every time she drew
