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 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