On the contrary, as before hinted, we expected to swell the appropriations of bread-fruit and cocoa-nuts on the Civil List by filling some honourable office in her gift.
We were told that, to resist the usurpation of the French, the queen was rallying about her person all the foreigners she could.

Her partiality for the English and Americans was well known; and this was an additional ground for our anticipating a favourable reception.
Zeke had informed us, moreover, that by the queen's counsellors at Partoowye, a war of aggression against the invaders of Papeetee had been seriously thought of.

Should this prove true, a surgeon's commission for the doctor, and a lieutenancy for myself, were certainly counted upon in our sanguine expectations.
Such, then, were our views, and such our hopes in projecting a trip to Taloo.

But in our most lofty aspirations we by no means lost sight of any minor matters which might help us to promotion.

The doctor had informed me that he excelled in playing the fiddle.