The Story of the Second Cruise of the Famous Little Frigate _Essex_--Around Cape Horn and Alone in the Broad South Sea--Capture of a Peruvian Picaroon--Disguising the _Essex_--The British Whaling Fleet Taken by Surprise--An Armed Whaler Transformed into a Yankee Cruiser--The Sailorman’s Paradise among the Nukahiva Group--When Farragut was a Midshipman--An Incipient Mutiny among the Sailors who Wanted to Remain among the Islands--Farragut as a Captain at Twelve. A Generous Reception for a Predatory British Frigate--Hillyar’s Lucky Escape--Hillyar’s Explicit Orders--When the _Essex_ had Lost her Top-mast the _Phœbe_ and the _Cherub_ Attacked the Yankee in Neutral Water--It was a Two-to-one Fi…
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