Chapter 16 -The Second Cruise of the Wave

"I longed to see the Isles that gem,

Old Ocean's purple diadem,

I sought by turns, and saw them all."

Byron, The Bride Of Abydos, II. 355-57.

The puncture in Mr Bang's neck from the boarding-pike was not very deep, still it was an ugly lacerated wound; and if The had not to use his own phrase, been somewhat bullnecked, there is no sayin