He forgets whatever has occurred half an hour ago; and his eye, which was an eagle's, is now a mole's.

He no longer sees what his sailors are doing alow or aloft; to be sure he no longer cares; his present ship may take care of herself while he is talking of his past ones.

But the surest indicia of inebriety in Hudson are these two.

First, his nose is red.
Secondly, he discourses upon a seaman's _duty to his employers._ Ebrius rings the changes on his 'duty to his employers' till drowsiness attacks his hearers.

_Cicero de officiis_ was all very well at a certain period of one's life, but _bibulus nauta de officiis_ is rather too much.
"N.