taken aback at first, and didn't know what to make of him. "S'laam, sah'b," said the dark servant, with an impudent look, and loud enough for me to hear, as I stepped from aft,--"Judge sahib i-send genteeman salaam--say too much hivvy boot he got--all same as _Illimphant_! S'pose master not so much loud walk, _this_ side?" "_Well!_" broke out the American, looking at the Bengalee's flat turban and mustache, as if he were too great a curiosity to be angry with, then, turning on his heel to proceed with his walk, "Now, mister," said he to me, "that's what I call an incalculable imp_u_dent black--but he's the first I ever saw with hair on his lip, it's a fact!" "Master not _mind_?" said the Kitmagar, raising his key next time Mr Snout wheeled round. "Judge sahib burra burra buhadoorkea!--ver' great man!" "D---- niggur!" said Mr Snout, tramping away aft; "there's your British regoolations, I say, young man! niggurs bààing on the quarterdeck, and free-born citizens put off it!" "_Bhote khoob_, mistree!" squeaked out the native again; "burra judge sahib not i-sleep apter he dine?--ver_i_ well--I tell the sahib, passiger mistree moor stamp-i-stamp all the moor I can say!" So off he went to report in the poop-cabin. A little after, up shot a head wrapped in a yellow bandanna, just on the level of the poop-deck, looking through the breast-rail; and the next thing I saw was the great East Indian himself, with a broad-flapped Manilla hat over this top-gear, and a red-flowered dressing-gown, standing beside the binnacle with Captain Williamson. "What the deuce, Captain Williamson!" said the judge, with an angry glance up to the poop, "cannot I close my eyelids after dinner for one instant--in my own private apartments, sir--for this hideous noise! Who the deuce _is_ that person there--eh, eh?" "He's an American gentleman, I believe, Sir Charles," replied the captain. "_Believe_, sir!" said the judge, "you ought to _know_ every individual, I think, Captain Williamson, whom you admitted into this vessel! I expressly stipulated for quiet, sir--I understood that no suspicious or exceptionable persons should travel in the same conveyance with _my_ suwarry. I'd have taken the whole ship, sir!" "I've no more to do than tell him the regulations aboard, Sir Charles," said the captain, "and the annoyance will cease." "_Tell_ him, indeed!" said the judge, a little more good-humouredly, "why, captain, the man looks like a sea-pirate! You should have taken only such raw griffins as that young lad on the other side. Ho, kitmagar!" "Maharaj?" said the footman, bowing down to the deck. "_Slippers lao!_" "Jee, khodabund," answered the native, and immediately after he reappeared from the round-house door, with a pair of turned-up yellow slippers. "Take them up with my salaam to that gentleman there," said Sir Charles, in Hindostance, "and ask him to use them." "Hullo!," sung out Mr Snout, on being hove-to by the kitmagar, with one hand on his breast and the