" Brown was highly pleased with the governor's choice, which had been made with a due regard to the interests and tastes of the absent shipmate.

"Ahoy, there, shipmates!

"You will divide it, like honest shipmates; and you may ever rely on my protection.

Our most notable shipmate was the Right Honorable Lord Lamington, recently governor of one of the Australian provinces, on his way to assume similar responsibility at Bombay, which is considered a more responsible post.

The mate brought him down in triumph, and 'Old Davy,' the owl, became a very peaceable shipmate among the crew, who were no longer scared by his horns and eyes; for sailors turn their backs on nothing when they know what it is.