There are people who consider such a spectacle magnificent; but that is only because they have never witnessed its horrors.
Already many immortal souls had returned to their Maker; many sons had become orphans, and many wives had been deprived of their husbands; but as yet there was nothing to indicate on which side victory was to be declared.

Soon, however, a cry of fire was raised, which caused great confusion; and another cry, announcing that the captain had fallen, increased the disorder.
A ball crashed through the taffrail, near where Jack and Fritz were standing; it passed between them, but they were both severely wounded by the splinters, and were conveyed by Willis to the cockpit.

The doctor, seeing his old friend Jack handed down the ladder, hastened towards him and tore out a piece of wood from the fleshy part of his arm.

He next turned to Fritz, who had received a severe flesh-wound on the shoulder.

When both wounds were bandaged, he left the care of the young men to Willis, who had escaped with a few scratches, which, however, were bleeding pretty freely--to these he did not pay the slightest attention.
"How stands the contest ?" inquired Fritz in a weak voice.
"The _Hoboken_ is done for," replied Willis; "the commodore was preparing to board when we left the deck; but it does not make much difference; we shall go to England instead of America, that is all." "God's will be done," said Fritz.
Just then Bill Stubbs was swung down in a hammock; both his legs had been shot off by a cannon ball.