Of those other appearances it is out of order to attempt to speak in detail, and would be absurd to do so, even if one might, for every other word must expose one's ignoramee. "Go everywhere, see everything, do whatever you like," said the Commander-in-chief cheerily and handed one over to his staff for the grand tour. Recollections of that intricate journey through the mazes of the hip, cannot but_be confused and overwhelmed. The infinite complexity of all parts, the exquisite adaptation of means to end, the careful duplication and. reduplication of apparatus to enable work to be carried on unchecked by an unlucky shell or the assault of Nature, the delicate precision, of every movement—all these leave an ineffaceable sense of wonderment and reverence. What a piece of work ig a man, in action how like an atigel, in apprehension how like a god." To the marvels of his inventiveness there is no end.
Amid all this welter of steel and electricity, of limitless power and death-dealing terror, seven hundred mem have their homes and belongings and personal interests and though their quarters are necessarily cramped in so pre-eminently a fighting machine, they would appear to make themselves pretty comfortable. Travellers will remember the peculiar nature of cabins to expand day by day from the mere pill box they appear at first view into the seeming spaciousness of a millionaire's suite. And if the average spoiled and fussy globe-trotter can thus adapt himself to life on the ocean wave, how much more the resourceful sailor man?
Everything too, that his superfors can do to make the bluejacket's life comfortable is done. Discipline goes hand-in-hand with a personal sympathy that makes for an intimacy of connexion between all ranks, which is perhaps the chief secret of the Britfsh Nhvy]s greatness. Most captains, I believe, make it point of honour to know the names of, and something about, every one of the hundreds of men in their care; and from personal motives, quite as much as in the general. interests of efficiency, officers are remarkably careful to see that the bluejacket is decently fed and warmed and kept as far as possible from doing any of the amazingly foolish things which this highly trained, but in some things most guileless creature might otherwise do to injure his health.
NAVAL HOSPITALITY, Of my hosts om board H. M. S. Hawkins from highest to lowest it is perhaps hardly decent to Speak in print. No civilian that has ever tasted of the Navy's hospitality has aught but-enthusi-ostic gratitude, almost a sense of
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