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land, but he had no idea where he must go or 

 what it was that he would see. He had been 

 told that this was a Scotch steamer, and he 

 thought it would be all right. Poor fellow ! he 

 might well look appalled when he found himself 



in Greenock. Another told me he thought all 

 the islands in the Clyde were sterile and un- 

 inhabited. And a third, whom I had not seen 

 before, came and whispered to me ' I see the 

 King of Spain is going to marry again.' I 

 looked hard at him, but there was no lunacy 



