CHAPTER XXXV.
VISIT FROM AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE WE had not been many days ashore, when Doctor Johnson was espied coming along the Broom Road.
We had heard that he meditated a visit, and suspected what he was after.

Being upon the consul's hands, all our expenses were of course payable by him in his official capacity; and, therefore, as a friend of Wilson, and sure of good pay, the shore doctor had some idea of allowing us to run up a bill with him.

True, it was rather awkward to ask us to take medicines which, on board the ship, he told us were not needed.

However, he resolved to put a bold face on the matter, and give us a call.
His approach was announced by one of the scouts, upon which someone suggested that we should let him enter, and then put him in the stocks.

But Long Ghost proposed better sport.