The supercargo of the boat, loading there, had been indulging, not wisely but too well, in "green swizzles", an insidious drink of the country, and, when last seen was oblivious to the world.

" "Well, I'll be gum swizzled!"

"It was all bully fun, but that swizzle game where the marble ran round was the bestest of all, only some numbers it sat on took the pennies and some gave them back," and he indicated something flying round in a circle as he capered about.

At the worst of the storm there is neither Heaven nor Earth, but only a swizzle into which a man may be brewed.