Napoleon And His Fellow Travellers Being a Reprint of Certain Narratives of the
Napoleon And His Fellow Travellers Being a Reprint of Certain Narratives of the
Shorter Clement King
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, of the Anglican Church. The ceremony of crossing the Line, a day of jubilee to the voyagers of every maritime nation, is so well known that it would be superfluous to give a minute description of it ; though more than usual ceremony was displayed on the present occasion ; and it must be acknowledged that the French party submitted with the best grace — that is to say, with the most perfect good humour — to the novel freedoms of the marine Saturnalia. Nor had the Neptune and Amphi- trite of th...e day any cause of complaint. They were seated in a boat filled with water, the throne a match- tub, and the sceptre a painter's brush. They were surrounded by their Tritons, consisting of fifty or sixty of the most athletic men in the ship, naked to the waist, and bedaubed with various colours, each bearing a pail of salt water, to drench, more or less, the subjects of the briny god. The licence of the pastime may be imagined when Captain Ross, who commanded the ship, received the contents of one of them with perfect pleasantry.
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