Good-day! I'll send you the medicines the first thing in the morning." Now, I am inclined to suspect that with all his want of understanding, Johnson must have had some idea that we were quizzing him.

Still, that was nothing, so long as it answered his purpose; and therefore, if he did see through us, he never showed it.
Sure enough, at the time appointed, along came a native lad with a small basket of cocoa-nut stalks, filled with powders, pill-boxes, and-vials, each with names and directions written in a large, round hand.

The sailors, one and all, made a snatch at the collection, under the strange impression that some of the vials were seasoned with spirits.

But, asserting his privilege as physician to the first reading of the labels, Doctor Long Ghost was at last permitted to take possession of the basket.
The first thing lighted upon was a large vial, labelled--"For William--rub well in." This vial certainly had a spirituous smell; and upon handing it to the patient, he made a summary internal application of its contents.

The doctor looked aghast.
There was now a mighty commotion.