entered, and the boy was half way in, when one of the men caught him by
the leg and drew him back. He was very savage, bit at the men, and
seizing the barrel of one of their guns in his teeth, shook it fiercely.
The sipahees, however, secured him, brought him home, and kept him for
twenty days, during which he would eat nothing but raw flesh, and was
fed accordingly on hares and birds. His captors soon found it difficult
to provide him with sufficient food, and took him to the bazar in the
village of Koeleepoor, to be supported by the charitable till he might
be recognized and claimed by his parents.

He is unable to speak or to articulate any sound with distinctness. In
drinking, he dips his face in the water, but does not lap like a wolf.
He still prefers raw flesh; and when a bullock dies, and the skin is
removed, he attacks and eats the body in company of the village dogs.

[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 37, July 13.]

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.

BY BENSON J. LOSSING.

CHAPTER IV.

Commodore Preble sailed from the United States for the Mediterranean in
the frigate _Constitution_ late in the spring of 1803. The ships of the
squadron did not sail together. Bainbridge, with the frigate
_Philadelphia_, first entered the Strait of Gibraltar, and found a
Moorish corsair cruising for American prizes. He captured her and took
her to Gibraltar. When Preble arrived he proceeded to Tangiers with the
squadron, when the Emperor of Morocco declared that he had never
authorized any depredations on American commerce. The affair was
amicably settled. Soon afterward the _Philadelphia_ chased a corsair
into the harbor of Tripoli, and in so doing struck upon a sunken rock.
She was fast bound. The Tripolitans captured her, made Bainbridge and
his officers prisoners of war, and consigned the crew to slavery.

With Preble was Stephen Decatur, a gallant young Lieutenant, son of a
veteran naval commander. He was in charge of the brig _Enterprise_, with
which, late in December, he captured a Tripolitan ketch laden with girls
which the ruler of Tripoli was sending as a present to the Sultan. The
maidens were landed at Syracuse, and the ketch (which was renamed
_Intrepid_) was used by Decatur in an attempt to recapture or destroy
the _Philadelphia_. With seventy daring young men he sailed into the
harbor of Tripoli on a bright moon-lit night (February, 1804), the
_Intrepid_ assuming the character of a vessel in distre