William James Roe

“ On the contrary, it is about as despicable a one as can be found. The tide rises and falls with great rapidity, and we found on nearing the entrance that we were just in time to be too late. The alternative was to remain on the vessel two hours or trust to the skill of a boatman, who could not speak a word of English, in a little boat, with a tide running like a mill stream, and thus gain the shore. ”

“ In my trunk they found a cigar box neatly done up; they naturally enough supposed this to contain cigars, and were proceeding to open it. A careful doctor, however, had provided a few pills, etc., and had placed them for me in this box, and I did not want it opened, so I sang out, in French, “Monsieur, do not open that—’tis not cigars but medicine;” which translated is “not cigars but the doctor.” The bystanders roared ”