Chapter 14

"'A stranger animal,' cries one,

'Sure never liv'd beneath the sun;

A lizard's body lean and long,

A fish's head, a serpent's tongue,

Its foot, with triple claw disjoined;

And what a length of tail behind!'"

James Merrick, "The Chameleon," 11.21–26.

The first act of the Delaware, on rejoining his friend, was to proceed gravely