Duras--Durance vile.

I suppose it's superstition, but I'll change Come, Yellow-mane, what shall we call her ?" "Well, Captain Paul, don't you like Doctor Franklin?
Hasn't he been the prime man to get this fleet together?
Let's call her the Doctor Franklin." "Oh, no, that will too publicly declare him just at present; and Poor Richard wants to be a little shady in this business." "Poor Richard!--call her Poor Richard, then," cried Israel, suddenly struck by the idea.
"'Gad, you have it," answered Paul, springing to his feet, as all trace of his former despondency left him;--"Poor Richard shall be the name, in honor to the saying, that 'God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says." Now this was the way the craft came to be called the _Bon Homme Richard_; for it being deemed advisable to have a French rendering of the new title, it assumed the above form.
A few days after, the force sailed.

Ere long, they captured several vessels; but the captains of the squadron proving refractory, events took so deplorable a turn, that Paul, for the present, was obliged to return to Groix.

Luckily, however, at this junction a cartel arrived from England with upwards of a hundred exchanged American seamen, who almost to a man enlisted under the flag of Paul.
Upon the resailing of the force, the old troubles broke out afresh.

Most of her consorts insubordinately separated from the Bon Homme Richard.