Douglas at first, but when the boy found out he was supported by his own officers he turned upon the man one day and said, ‘I tell you what, Mr. V
, if you hit me once more, I give you notice I shall hit you again’ (Mr. V is six feet high), ‘and what is more, when we cross the line I shall pay you off!’ They say he looked so funny with his fist doubled up at the man,—who never says a word to him now.
The ‘Jupiter’ at Sea, December 19, 1835.
I look at your unfortunate picture swinging opposite to me, and feel remorseful that I should have placed your innocent, dumb likeness in such a situation; and then, I don’t know where you, the real living woman, are. Nobody can have been anywhere as long as we have been on board this ship. We are not at the Cape yet: we are to be there, they say, in two or three days; but I am not to be taken in by anything any sailor says—you and I, dear, know them better. I don’t think that the marines are happy, and the troop of engineers we are transporting to Ceylon, with their military sagacity are not