Shortly after the _Hoboken_ was despatched to Bermuda as a prize, with the prisoners, the wounded, and the dying.
The old tub that had gained this victory was named the _Arzobispo_, having, as Willis supposed, been captured in the Spanish Main.

It was under the command of Commodore Truncheon, better known in the fleet by the _soubriquet_ of Old Flyblow.
The _Arzobispo_, though old and clumsy, was a stout-built craft; and so thick was its hide, that the broadsides of the Yankee had done the hull no damage to speak of.

The superstructure, however, was completely shattered; the masts and rigging hung like sweeps over the sides; and, to the unpractised eye, the ship was a complete wreck.

A few days, however, sufficed to put everything to rights again so far as regards external appearance; but how this impromptu carpentry would stand a storm was another question.
The commodore was on his way to Europe when he fell in with the Yankee, and, notwithstanding the disabled condition of the ship, he resolved to continue his voyage.

Some of the officers expostulated with him on the hazard of crossing the Atlantic in so shaky a trim.