CROSSING THE TROPIC.
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After this, Ducking began in all its forms, under every possible modification of splashing and immersion. There was the Duck courteous, the Duck oblique, the Duck direct, the Duck upright, the Duck downright, the bucket Duck, the tub Duck, the shower Duck, and the Duck and Drake. ' There was water, water everywhere, And not a drop to drink.'
A fine water-piece. But Neptune sent the trades. Full on our larboard quarter did they blow, every sail was Bet, the flying fish glided by us, bonitos and albicores played round the bows, dolphins gleamed in our wake, ever and anon a shark, and once a great emerald-colored whale kept us company, till, on the morning of the 29th of January, we made the green shores of Barbados, and cast our anchor in Carlisle Bay.