144 WHAT I HAVE SEEN WHILE FISHING 



make a convert. He then and there almost per- 

 suaded me to join them. So eloquent was he 

 about the sea, that I momentarily expected him to 

 break out with : 



" Britannia needs no bulwarks, 



No towers along the steep; 

 Her march is o'er the mountain waves, 

 Her home is on the deep." 



