The King and Queen, the Lords of the Council, together with the various high ecclesiastics and great officials, went on the yacht, which the Lord High Admiral, a man of remarkably masterful physiognomy, himself steered.

The rest of those present at the Coronation came on the warship.

The latter went fast, but the yacht showed her heels all the way.

However, the King's party waited in the dock in the Blue Mouth.

From this a new cable-line took us all to the State House at Plazac.