568 THE DELIGHTS OF THE " DEEP." 



vour of the other. In one corner of the cabin, away from Christian 

 prayers, kneeled the devout and wretched Israelite. His quick and 

 active eye, which had often glistened at gain, now darted round the 

 cabin with an expression of despair, as his lips were muttering that 

 in which his mind had no share. Near him were the two Scotch 

 Presbyterians, ejaculating psalms, and almost close to him I beheld 

 the Protestant clergyman and the rigid Catholic. Here I saw men 

 side by side, who, if free, would have persecuted each other to the 

 death, now joining their prayers to the Deity of all. Sad picture of 

 human folly and human frailty. The impression it made upon my 

 mind can never be forgotten. Each after the manner of his fathers 

 was closing his account with the world ; and it was to me as an 

 epitome of mankind at the moment of some vast and violent mun- 

 dane catastrophe ! Cold and wet, and almost exhausted with watch- 

 ing, I had recourse to brandy ; and poor Levi, who was inclined to 

 try my remedy, rose from his corner, and came staggering towards 

 me, when an unlucky pitch of the vessel threw him upon the Catho- 

 lic, and in a moment, the shock being communicated to the clergy- 

 man, I saw the Jew, the Catholic, and the priest huddled into the 

 vacated corner. The noise increased the fears of the presbyters, and 

 their terror was expressed by the heightened pitch of their voices. 

 The Jew shrieked out a Hebrew ejaculation, as if all was lost. For 

 a moment each expected death, but as the vessel righted, hope re- 

 sumed her empire. The Jew commenced most humbly begging the ^ 

 shcntlemans pardons ; but his humility recalled all the earthly feel- 

 ings of the bigot and the priest. He sued for pardon at Christian ^ 

 hands for his unlucky accident, but it was granted in a manner which 

 made me pity the one and respect the other. 



The wind changed, and before day-break we had weathered the 

 Point ; the spell was broken, and the morning broke upon us clear 

 and unclouded. We ran for Portland Roads to refit, and after a 

 delay of a few days, we once more embarked ; we made a fair start, 

 and with as much confidence and spirits as a caravan troop, well 

 armed, enters upon the wide desert of the East. Forgetting our past 

 perils, we steered into the wide waters of the Atlantic. 



I would willingly narrate the adventures of my voyage, of the 

 distresses of poor Levi about his provender the Jews not being 

 allowed to touch any thing killed by unclean hands, of our conse- 

 quent good-nature, in constituting him butcher to the mess, of the 

 remonstrances of the cook thereupon, of the Jew's unartist-like in- 

 capacity for his office, of how one day the malicious cook forestalled 

 him, and how his gloomy perspective of a banyan-day was achieved, 

 by the circumstance of an inexperienced dolphin speculating upon a 

 piece of pork, wherein was diabolically concealed a stout fish-hook, 

 of the Hebrew's anxious inquiries whether the dolphin wore scales 

 according to the Levitical law, of his rapture on finding the flesh of 

 dolphin sanctioned by Moses. All this and much more could I 

 relate, but for the abrupt intimation that my " yarn" is already spun 

 too long. I must, therefore, gentle reader, ere I am well introduced, 

 bid you, reluctantly, farewell ! 



